Dr Michael Plant conducted an in-person site visit to better understand the StrongMinds programme and the people in it. We don’t expect site visits can, or should, be decisive for evaluation purposes (they are ‘anecdata’), but they can nevertheless be informative. Visitor: Dr Michael Plant, Founder & Research Director at the Date […]
In this report, summer research fellow Thomas Beuchot briefly scoped out the public policies that promise to be most effective at increasing wellbeing. The policies found as the most promising according to the grading criteria are mostly policies that are also widely valued and pursued outside of a wellbeing lens: unemployment, strong relationships, increased access […]
We are pleased to share a new joint working paper between HLI and the Wellbeing Research Centre, Oxford University. In it, Dr Michael Plant explores the challenges of the nature and plausibility of the life satisfaction theory (LST) of wellbeing. Download report as PDF This is the summary of the working paper. Click the button […]
Download report as PDF In this report, we provide an overview of all our evaluations to date as well as our conclusions for Giving Season 2023. Summary Summary At the , we look for the most cost-effective interventions and organisations that improve subjective wellbeing, how people feel during and about their lives. We […]
In this substantial update to our work on psychotherapy we conduct a systematic review, a meta-analysis, and cost-effectiveness analyses of two charities who deliver psychotherapy (StrongMinds and Friendship Bench). This is a working report that will be updated over time, results may change. Download report as PDF November 2024: Update to our analysis We have […]
We set out our research priorities. Download report as PDF Foreword One-page summary Research agenda Conclusion Contributions Foreword The idea that the quality of a society should be judged by the happiness of its people is an old idea, stretching back at least to the Enlightenment, if not Aristotle. What’s new is that now we […]