Our 2021 Annual Review The cost-effectiveness analyses of cash transfers, psychotherapy, and StrongMinds consumed most of our research capacity in 2021. However, we also published an updated research agenda and a new problem area report on mental health, to accompany our earlier report on pain. We were featured in Vox, The New Statesman, The Times, […]
We’re excited to announce that we’ll be running our summer research fellowship again this year The fellowship provides students and recent graduates with the opportunity to gain hands-on research experience and receive personal mentoring from our research team. If you have an interest in wellbeing and global priorities research, we strongly encourage you to apply. […]
Academic papers A local community course that raises wellbeing and pro-sociality: Evidence from a randomised controlled trial Krekel et al. present evidence that the Action for Happiness course, which is run in hundreds of communities across the UK and around the world, results in a 1-point increase in life satisfaction two months after the course […]
We’re delighted to welcome four new members to our team. Samuel Dupret Research Analyst Samuel Dupret will be working with Joel to conduct cost-effectiveness analyses of a wide-range of promising interventions. He has a Masters in Cognitive and Decision Sciences from University College London, gaining a distinction. Linkedin Joy Bitner Operations Manager Joy Bitner has […]
This year, we are running our first Summer Research Fellowship. We received over 60 applications for the eight-week programme and we’re excited to be joined by six of the brightest up-and-coming talents in the field of subjective well-being research. Each Fellow is working on specific questions from our research agenda. Three are working with Joel […]
We’re looking for Summer Research Fellows to contribute to our research agenda. You can apply to work on particular projects, such as: Estimating the cost-effectiveness, in terms of subjective well-being, of various interventions, such as iron fortification, vitamin A supplementation, air pollution, and fistula surgery. A literature review on affective forecasting and what this tells […]