Research overview

Our research has been published in leading international journals including Nature, Science, PNAS, Management Science, The BMJ, and Scientific Reports, 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

2 February 2026

Why single-item measures of wellbeing are best

Nature Human Behaviour

23 October 2025

Can I get a little less life satisfaction, please?

Economics & Philosophy

20 October 2025

Is motivated memory (just) a matter of mood?

Experimental Economics

15 October 2025

National Worry and the Psychological Value of Social Spending

The Review of Income and Wealth

1 September 2025

2503 | Measuring the unmeasurable? Systematic evidence on scale transformations in subjective survey data

6 August 2025

Moral Uncertainty, Proportionality and Bargaining

Ergo

28 July 2025

2502 | Scaling the Easterlin Paradox: measuring life events on stretching happiness measures

3 June 2025

2501 | Why you should measure subjective changes

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15 January 2026

The Role of Hybrid Green Spaces in Secure Psychiatric Care

Wellbeing, Space and Society

22 November 2025

Adolescent Wellbeing: The Role of Schools

Well-Being and its Promotion in Educational Contexts

20 October 2025

Is motivated memory (just) a matter of mood?

Experimental Economics

15 October 2025

National Worry and the Psychological Value of Social Spending

The Review of Income and Wealth

27 September 2025

Ethnic inequalities in adolescent mental wellbeing: An interaction analysis of social identity markers, risk and protective factors

SSM - Mental Health

3 September 2025

2504 | Mapping adolescent wellbeing: developmental network shifts from early to middle adolescence in 24 countries

20 August 2025

Equality of opportunity and mortality around the world: implications for global public health

Global Health Action

6 August 2025

Moral Uncertainty, Proportionality and Bargaining

Ergo

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2 February 2026

Why single-item measures of wellbeing are best

Nature Human Behaviour

15 January 2026

The Role of Hybrid Green Spaces in Secure Psychiatric Care

Wellbeing, Space and Society

26 November 2025

Inclusion of wellbeing impacts of climate change: a review of literature and integrated environment–society–economy models

Lancet Planetary Health

22 November 2025

Adolescent Wellbeing: The Role of Schools

Well-Being and its Promotion in Educational Contexts

15 October 2025

National Worry and the Psychological Value of Social Spending

The Review of Income and Wealth

27 September 2025

Ethnic inequalities in adolescent mental wellbeing: An interaction analysis of social identity markers, risk and protective factors

SSM - Mental Health

20 August 2025

Equality of opportunity and mortality around the world: implications for global public health

Global Health Action

11 August 2025

Human-Centered Design and Digital Transformation of Mental Health Services

JMIR Human Factors

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26 November 2025

Inclusion of wellbeing impacts of climate change: a review of literature and integrated environment–society–economy models

Lancet Planetary Health

22 November 2025

Adolescent Wellbeing: The Role of Schools

Well-Being and its Promotion in Educational Contexts

3 September 2025

2504 | Mapping adolescent wellbeing: developmental network shifts from early to middle adolescence in 24 countries

20 August 2025

Equality of opportunity and mortality around the world: implications for global public health

Global Health Action

11 August 2025

Human-Centered Design and Digital Transformation of Mental Health Services

JMIR Human Factors

6 June 2025

Work and Wellbeing: Maximising the wellbeing of tomorrow’s workforce

Wellbeing and Policy: Evidence for Action

15 April 2025

The C-WELLBY: Towards a Universal Measure of Children’s Wellbeing for Policy Analysis

Centre for Economic Performance

25 March 2025

Why Workplace Wellbeing Matters

Harvard Business Review Press

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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).