Measuring 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...
read moreEmbedding Wellbeing in Northern Ireland: increasing capacity and confidence in our communities
Yesterday was the launch of the Embedding Wellbeing in Northern Ireland project, and ambitious three-year programme that is calling for local authorities to apply for financial and in-kind support.To explain the thinking behind the project, we have a guest blog from...
read moreTreasury Green Book and wellbeing: the analysis
It’s exactly one month since the Government updated the Treasury Green Book, guidance on how to appraise and evaluate policies, projects and programmes. While the original Green Book already mentioned wellbeing, the updated version explicitly states that wellbeing is...
read moreSmall businesses: call for your experiences of wellbeing at work
Share your experience  Do you work, or have your worked, in a small organisation that was really great to work for? The Centre is working with the Society for Occupational Medicine to put together some short case studies on small businesses or...
read more‘Proud employee’ effect: which companies perform four times better in recessions?
Today the Centre publishes new research that finds companies with more 'proud employees' have staff with higher reported wellbeing. But the effect also quadrupled the company’s chance of maintaining high organisational performance. Download resilient organisations...
read moreImprove wellbeing with data infrastructure: seven actions for organisations
The Centre works to improve wellbeing in the UK, and to reduce wellbeing inequalities. We do this using robust, relevant and accessible evidence to inform decision making. Â Underpinning that evidence there is a significant, and growing, data infrastructure...
read moreWorld Happiness Report 2018: migration, wellbeing and happiness
Edited 20/03/18 to add:  The UK​ analysis in this report is based on data from the Gallup poll and the Office of National Statistics Annual Population Survey: Estimates of personal well-being broken down by country of birth and years since arrival to the UK, three...
read moreFinding and keeping work: impact of low wellbeing
Today we publish our latest evidence review that looks at the links between mental health issues or low wellbeing, and finding and keeping jobs. The review authors*, part of our work and learning evidence programme, share the key findings and policy implications....
read moreHow does UK rate its wellbeing? New ONS data
Today the Office for National Statistics (ONS) have released their estimates of personal wellbeing in the UK, with analysis by country, age and sex. David Tabor, from the ONS shares the key messages and calls for readers to take part in a survey to gather feedback...
read moreCould citizen science help uncover mental health and wellbeing links?
Last week, the BBC's Tomorrow's World launched Secrets of Happiness, a national survey to gather data on wellbeing. Here, the former President of the British Psychological Society and the Centre's community lead Peter Kinderman, who is involved in the 'citizen...
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