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. […]
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 […]
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 […]