Research overview

Our research has been published in some of the world’s leading journals, including Management Science, The Lancet Public Health, Nature Human Behaviour, PNAS, and Psychological Science, among others.

Research undertaken by the Centre’s interdisciplinary team falls into four primary categories:

Measurements

Cause and Effect

Policy and
Interventions

The Future of
Wellbeing

17 June 2024

Assessing data quality in a Big convenience sample of work wellbeing

Wellbeing Research Centre / Nuffield Foundation

5 June 2024

Economic Development and Adolescent Wellbeing in 139 Countries

Child Indicators Research

20 March 2024

Child and Adolescent Well-being: Global Trends, Challenges and Opportunities

World Happiness Report 2024

20 March 2024

Happiness of the younger, the older, and those in between

World Happiness Report 2024

20 March 2024

Happiness and Age: Summary

World Happiness Report 2024

22 February 2024

2401 | A Happy Probability About Happiness (and Other) Scales: An Exploration and Tentative Defence of the Cardinality Assumption

14 February 2024

The causal effect of a health treatment on beliefs, stated preferences and memories

Journal of Health Economics

17 November 2023

2306 | Can I Get A Little Less Life Satisfaction, Please?

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16 November 2024

Book Review: Sarah Waters, Suicide Voices: Labour Trauma in France

Work, Employment and Society

30 July 2024

2304 | Workplace Wellbeing and Firm Performance

26 July 2024

The Role of Negative Affect in Shaping Populist Support: Converging Field Evidence From Across the Globe

American Psychologist

5 June 2024

Economic Development and Adolescent Wellbeing in 139 Countries

Child Indicators Research

1 May 2024

“No changes, but I become more positive mentally”: A mixed-methods study of the impact of a combined SEL and MBP on behavior change and academic achievement among Chinese adolescents

Social and Emotional Learning: Research, Practice, and Policy

29 April 2024

2402 | Health Lifestyles at Work

29 March 2024

Are environmental concerns deterring people from having children? Longitudinal evidence on births in the UK

Ecological Economics

20 March 2024

Happiness of the younger, the older, and those in between

World Happiness Report 2024

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16 November 2024

Book Review: Sarah Waters, Suicide Voices: Labour Trauma in France

Work, Employment and Society

3 September 2024

Value for Money: How to improve wellbeing and reduce misery

Centre for Economic Performance

1 May 2024

“No changes, but I become more positive mentally”: A mixed-methods study of the impact of a combined SEL and MBP on behavior change and academic achievement among Chinese adolescents

Social and Emotional Learning: Research, Practice, and Policy

29 April 2024

2402 | Health Lifestyles at Work

20 March 2024

Happiness and Age: Summary

World Happiness Report 2024

20 March 2024

Differences in Life Satisfaction among Older Adults in India

World Happiness Report 2024

20 March 2024

Supporting the Well-being of an Aging Global Population: Associations between Well-being and Dementia

World Happiness Report 2024

11 March 2024

CEOs Showing Humanity: Human Care Statements in Conference Calls and Stock Market Performance during Crisis

Academy of Management Discoveries

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29 April 2024

2402 | Health Lifestyles at Work

29 March 2024

Are environmental concerns deterring people from having children? Longitudinal evidence on births in the UK

Ecological Economics

20 March 2024

Supporting the Well-being of an Aging Global Population: Associations between Well-being and Dementia

World Happiness Report 2024

20 March 2024

Child and Adolescent Well-being: Global Trends, Challenges and Opportunities

World Happiness Report 2024

20 March 2024

Happiness of the younger, the older, and those in between

World Happiness Report 2024

20 March 2024

Happiness and Age: Summary

World Happiness Report 2024

11 March 2024

Do Patterns of Adolescent Participation in Arts, Culture and Entertainment Activities Predict Later Wellbeing? A Latent Class Analysis

Journal of Youth and Adolescence

5 March 2024

Work Wellbeing Playbook: A Systematic Review of Evidence-Based Interventions to Improve Employee Wellbeing

World Wellbeing Movement

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Research overview

Measurement

We investigate how to define and measure wellbeing, harnessing big data to identify new ways to measure individual and community wellbeing.

Cause and Effect

We ask what the key drivers of wellbeing are across the life course, and how wellbeing impacts other outcomes like productivity, educational performance, and voting behaviour.

Policy and Interventions

We consider whether wellbeing should be a policy objective and how this can be operationalised in practice.

The Future of Wellbeing

We investigate how the future of work will impact wellbeing, and how to best code for optimising wellbeing in algorithms that enable human-centred artificial intelligence (AI).