Meetings

9th April 2014 This session aimed to explore two key questions: What policy interventions related to mindfulness could improve wellbeing in the UK without increasing public expenditure? What are...

10th March 2014 This session aims to explore two key questions: What would UK labour market policy look like if it was motivated by the aim of maximising well-being rather than growth? What changes...

11th December 2013 The All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Wellbeing Economics held an inquiry into how policy can increase wellbeing without increasing public expenditure. This took place over a...

12th March 2013 Analysis of the new subjective wellbeing data collected by the Office for National Statistics has shown, for example, that the highest levels of wellbeing are found on the small...

12th July 2012 The speakers discussed why Costa Rica scored well across all three component measures used to calculate NEF’s Happy Planet Index (HPI): life expectancy, experienced well-being and...

17th May 2012 The panellists discussed whether promoting the wellbeing of employees helps increase workplace productivity and business profit, and then took questions from the audience. Speakers:–...

31st January 2012 The meeting explored whether economic growth is essential to our wellbeing in the short and long-term; whether it is possible to move to a new economic model where growth, as...

2nd November 2011Sir Gus O’Donnell, the Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Civil Service, discussed how Whitehall could use the wellbeing statistics in the policy making and evaluation process...

5th July 2011Professor Seligman, founder of positive psychology and past President of the American Psychological Association, has written extensively on the subject of wellbeing...

16th February 2011The meeting explored the Office of National Statistic’s plans to measure ‘national wellbeing’ and how those statistics could be used in the policy making process. Speakers:– Jil...