What’s driving the decline of young people’s wellbeing in the UK?
This week’s blog looks at wellbeing research from the Intergenerational Foundation on a new Index measuring young people’s wellbeing over a decade. David Kingman, Senior Researcher at the Foundation, explains why family relationships and perceptions of health play...
read morePersonal and economic wellbeing: three things the ONS data tells us
For the first time, this week the Office for National Statistics released the latest personal wellbeing data, alongside their indicators for economic wellbeing. Our Head of Evidence, Deborah Hardoon, explored the results and finds three things things that...
read moreNEW FUNDING CALL – Understanding wellbeing: Secondary Analysis Data Initiative funding
We are excited to announce this 'Understanding Wellbeing' funding opportunity, which will go to research that offers further insights surrounding the wellbeing of individuals and communities in the UK.[tweet_box design="default" float="none" excerpt="New...
read moreNew wellbeing evidence knowledge bank
WELLBEING KNOWLEDGE BANK - Three years of wellbeing evidence in one spreadsheet Over the past three years, the Centre has completed 16 systematic reviews on wellbeing and:culture and sportwork and learningcommunity wellbeing.To make...
read moreMeasures of wellbeing and impact – who decides?
This week, Becky Seale and Catherine-Rose Stocks-Rankin, Public Health England researchers and co-leads of the Unleashing Healthy Communities project in Bromley by Bow, share their perspectives on traditional measurement of community-based approaches to...
read moreUrban co-design for better wellbeing and health: Healthy New Town
On Monday, the NHS launched its Long Term Plan - with a focus on prevention, includes mental & physical health, community approaches, children and young people, and increased control for patients. This week’s guest blog looks at the Halton Lea Healthy New Town...
read moreHow can wellbeing evidence inform your work in 2019?
We start 2019 with an ambitious new series of evidence projects at the Centre. Each piece of research or guidance developed builds on the evidence programme of the last three years. The projects will also all be delivered within the next 12 months to ensure the...
read moreWellbeing evidence, policy and practice in 2018
Happy holidays from all of us at the Centre. Thank you for your support, insights, feedback and participation: it led to more evidence-informed action; more understanding of what wellbeing is, and how to measure it; and some impactful collaborations...
read moreMapping loneliness at the hyper-local level (and new research on young people and loneliness)
Since the launch of the government’s Loneliness Strategy and our Review on Loneliness in October, and ahead of our own soon-to-be published guidance on measuring loneliness, this week’s guest blog is from Dr Luke Burns, a Lecturer in Quantitative Human Geography in...
read moreWorkplace health and wellbeing: call for evidence
What's happening? We are conducting a review of how to implement actions that improve the health and wellbeing of workers. This can include specific workplace health and wellbeing programmes and initiatives, but can also include other changes to how people are managed...
read moreloneliness models, theories, definitions or frameworks: call for evidence
What we are looking for We are looking for evidence (grey literature) produced by any organisation that will contribute to a conceptual review on loneliness to develop a conceptual framework for understanding loneliness and wellbeing across the life-course. Grey...
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