Meetings

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...

28th October 2010The meeting explored how efforts to promote wellbeing could be linked to the environmental agenda. Speakers:– Charles Seaford, Head of the Centre for Well-being, New Economics...

21st July 2010The meeting explored how wellbeing could be promoted in the workplace and whether Government had a role. Speakers– Professor Cary Cooper, Professor of Organisational Psychology...

2nd March 2010The meeting explored the UK’s record on childhood wellbeing and it could be improved. Speakers:– Professor Stephen Scott, Institute of Psychiatry– Senay Camgoz, UNICEF UK– Susan...