12th May 2014 This session aims to explore three key questions: How can the planning system support well-being? How far is this in tension with the current focus on the need for planning to...
APPG Inquiry, Evidence session 3: Mindfulness in health and education
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...
APPG Inquiry, Evidence session 2: Labour markets and wellbeing
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...
APPG Inquiry, Evidence session 1: Culture
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...
Wellbeing across the UK: Why are there differences and what can we do about it?
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...
Lessons from Costa Rica? Topping the Happy Planet Index
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...
Happy workers = Business growth?
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:–...
Is economic growth essential for wellbeing?
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...
Wellbeing statistics: how will Whitehall respond?
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...
Wellbeing and public policy
5th July 2011Professor Seligman, founder of positive psychology and past President of the American Psychological Association, has written extensively on the subject of wellbeing...