Centre awarded £1.5m national lottery funding + trustee recruitment
The Centre has received £1.5 million of National Lottery funding over three years from the Big Lottery...
read moreEmbedding Wellbeing in Northern Ireland: participating local authorities announced
Back in April, we shared a guest blog about the Embedding Wellbeing in Northern Ireland project, and the Carnegie UK Trust’s call for participants to receive funding and in-kind support. Now, Aideen McGinley, Chair of the project’s Advisory Group, shares which local...
read moreHappiness, sexuality and partnerships
Indicators from the Office for National Statistics show that People who identify as lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) tend to rate their quality of life as lower than the UK average. Here, economists Shuai Chen and Jan C. van Ours* share the key findings from their...
read moreHigher education: improving wellbeing and mental health
We recently highlighted age differences in wellbeing in the UK. Research suggests that levels of mental illness and low wellbeing among 16-24 year olds, and students in higher education, in the UK are increasing, and are high relative to other sections of...
read morePlaces, spaces, social connection and people’s wellbeing: what works?
What makes the places we live, work and meet up in better places for our wellbeing? Our social relationships are consistently found to be an important part of our overall wellbeing. Understanding what communities and organisations can do to best...
read moreCall for evidence: loneliness
Deadline: 11 June 2018 What are we looking for? We need your evidence, in the form of evaluation reports, on the effectiveness of interventions to alleviate loneliness in people at all stages of the life-course. What is it for? The evidence will be used to build a...
read moreHousing for vulnerable people: what works?
Today we publish an evidence review that looks at what works when it comes to interventions for housing-vulnerable people. It builds on evidence gaps identified in our scoping review earlier this year. In today’s blog we run the key findings against practitioner...
read moreEducation to employment: the role of wellbeing
The transition from full-time education into employment can be a testing time for many young people. Helping young people find employment has been a key policy objective for many years, and indeed the percentage of young people not in education, employment or training...
read moreWellbeing and potential barriers: Leaving no one behind
 The ONS has pioneered the measurement of national wellbeing in the UK, in addition to traditional measures of prosperity. This enables policy makers to make better, more well-rounded decisions. As the work matures, its scope is being expanded to better reflect the...
read moreMeasuring National Wellbeing: Quality of Life in the UK, 2018
Today the Office for National Statistics releases its annual article on the wellbeing of the UK. Rhian Jones and Chris Randall, Quality of Life, Office for National Statistics share the headlines. Once a year, we report progress against a set of headline indicators...
read moreHealth and wellbeing: middle managers feel the squeeze
Last week saw the release of the UK's first comprehensive measure of UK job quality, the CIPD's UK Working Lives survey report 2018. In this blog, CIPD's Employee Relations Adviser, Rachel Suff, gives an overview of the main findings. The CIPD UK Working Lives...
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