Personal 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...
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measuring wellbeing
New wellbeing evidence knowledge bank
WELLBEING KNOWLEDGE BANK – Three years of wellbeing evidence in one spreadsheet Download the...
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Mapping 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,...
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Wellbeing across the lifecourse: the big picture
The Centre is part of the What Works Network, which work together to make evidence on ‘what...
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What do we know about tackling loneliness (so far)?
Today we publish What do we know about tackling loneliness? A ‘review of reviews’ that is based...
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What might a rise in social trust mean for our wellbeing?
The British Social Attitudes survey has been carried out annually by the National Centre for...
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How do people rate their wellbeing in different UK countries and in local areas?
Yesterday the Office for National Statistics (ONS) released their estimates of personal wellbeing...
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Measuring impact of the arts as a creative learning charity
Artis Foundation’s evaluation journey: part one As part of our Measuring Wellbeing series,...
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Outcomes Stars: a tool for measuring wellbeing
As part of a new series of blogs that focus on a range of wellbeing measurement tools from...
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Children’s wellbeing since 1995: what’s changed?
This week’s guest blog is from Larissa Pople, Senior Researcher at The Children’s Society, on their latest Good Childhood Report, published this week. It is their annual digest of the latest trends, statistics and findings relating to children’s self-reported wellbeing in the UK. Here she pulls out some key findings on the differences in the wellbeing and mental health of boy and girls identified in the report.
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Sector perspective: Conversations with funders on wellbeing evidence
This week’s blog is from Esther Goodwin Brown, an independent consultant and Programme Manager at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, UK Branch (CGF). Esther shares some reflections from a series of conversations with funders and other stakeholders about how to facilitate civil society to share wellbeing evidence from project evaluations.
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Wellbeing: should we be using it to ‘monetise’ non market activities?
In this week’s guest blog Paul Frijters, co-director with Richard Layard of the CEP-LSE wellbeing group, responds to last month’s blog from Dan Corry, which suggested that adding a price tag to wellbeing risks overselling and misunderstanding its true value.
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