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 […]
2020 ANNUAL REVIEW How is our research making a difference? In 2020, we sought to address the most important questions on our research agenda and to develop our capacities as an organisation that conducts careful and action-relevant research. Our aims were (1) to build the case for using subjective well-being as an outcome measure in […]
We recently published an update on our research plans on the Effective Altruism Forum. Our strategy has developed significantly since we published our launch post in June 2019. While we continue to be interested in mental health, we are not just a charity evaluator for mental health interventions. We see ourselves as a ‘meta’ org […]
Our research falls into two streams. First, theoretical research into the nature and measurement of subjective well-being (SWB). Priority questions for 2020 include: Which measure of well-being should be (theoretically) preferred – life satisfaction, happiness, or something else? To what extent are measures of subjective well-being valid – do they capture what they are supposed to […]
The story so far The was formed in late 2018 by a group of committed individuals interested in the subjects of happiness, mental health and effective altruism. Our broad aim was to find the best ways to improve global happiness. Why happiness, or more broadly, well-being? When thinking about methods of ‘doing […]