10
Feb
2026
A changing wellbeing scale?
Charlie Harrison (Oxford) shared findings on apparent changes to humanity’s scale of wellbeing at the latest of the Wellbeing Research Centre’s Seminar Series.
Together with co-author Dr Alberto Prati (UCL), he proposes a new linear reporting function – the V-LINE – to account for the volatility in happiness over time, and to enable greater comparability between historic and contemporary wellbeing data.
Watch the full presentation on the Centre’s YouTube channel.