The Politics of Wellbeing

• Project Dates: 2013 - 2015
• Project Leader: Karen Scott
• Staff: Liz Oughton
• Sponsors: ESRC

The primary aim of this seminar series was to bring the Politics discipline into dialogue with other disciplines and with policy-makers around the increased interest in wellbeing, to identify and communicate its distinctive contribution, and to contribute to well-being policy debate and policy development in the UK and beyond. The seminar series consisted of six events staged over two years: five seminars (of 25 academic and non-academic participants structured around 5-6 contributions per seminar) and a concluding one-day conference (80 participants). Led by Prof. Ian Bache (Centre for Health and Wellbeing In Public Policy, University of Sheffield), Karen Scott (CRE) and Charles Seaford (new economics foundation).

The website for the project is available here