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Rebecca Shames

Rebecca Shames is a Research Assistant at the Wellbeing Research Centre. She has recently completed an MSc in Sociology from the University of Oxford, with an interest in using qualitative research methods to address social inequalities and improve emotional wellbeing.

Prior to her degree at Oxford, Rebecca was a Research Assistant at Harvard Graduate School of Education. During her time in this position, she worked on data collection for a longitudinal study exploring the impacts of Pre-K programmes on cognitive development and emotional wellbeing of children in disadvantaged neighbourhoods of Boston, Massachusetts.

Grace Cheong


Grace is a Research Assistant at the Wellbeing Research Centre and an MPhil student in Sociology and Demography at the University of Oxford. Her research interests lie broadly in the inequalities of wellbeing and health across the life course. Prior to the start of her MPhil, Grace received her Bachelor of Social Sciences (Honours) in Sociology from the National University of Singapore and worked for several years as a research associate examining wellbeing among older adults in Singapore.

Yoel Sevi

Yoel is a Research Assistant at the Wellbeing Research Centre focusing on what makes us happy at work. He previously completed an MMathPhil in Mathematics & Philosophy at the University of Oxford and worked as a Research Assistant at Saïd Business School, building predictive models of the labour market. Outside of academia, he has been a strategy consultant at Bain & Company and a Product Manager for two start-ups.

Annette Riziki

Annette Riziki is a Research Assistant at the Wellbeing Research Centre and a DPhil student in the Education department at the University of Oxford. Her current DPhil research focuses on children’s and teachers’ wellbeing and educational outcomes in emergency contexts. 

Before commencing her DPhil research, Annette completed an MSc in Child Development at the University of Oxford, looking at the role of teacher behavioural and cognitive judgments on the learning trajectories of Black primary school students in England. Her research interests are education access and the wellbeing of children and teachers in resettlement and asylum contexts. In line with this, her past research has focused on the integration and resettlement processes of refugees and immigrants within Canada.

Karolina Korgul

Karolina Korgul is a Research Assistant at the Wellbeing Research Centre, following the completion of her MSc in Social Data Science at the University of Oxford.

Her research focuses on analysing and forecasting employee wellbeing such as happiness, satisfaction, stress, and purpose. She is also particularly interested in the future of AI-driven work, with a special focus on healthcare and how can these phenomena be quantified and measured to best describe the reality.

Thomas Beuchot

Thomas Beuchot is a Research Assistant at the Wellbeing Research Centre while concurrently pursuing a Master’s in Management (MiM) at HEC Paris and a Master’s in Cognitive Science at the École Normale Supérieure-PSL (Cogmaster). His research at the Centre primarily investigates noise in life satisfaction judgments. The aim of this research is to evaluate the reliability of subjective wellbeing measures and explore their potential as practical guides for interventions, including public policy formulation.

Simultaneously, Thomas works as a research intern at the Institut Jean Nicod on evolutionary personality with Nicolas Baumard and on examining relationship between income and wellbeing with Daniel Nettle. Additionally, Thomas serves as a cognitive science consultant for private companies, contributing to the development of test batteries on personality, cognition, and career guidance.

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