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NEWS

‘Wellbeing Assessment in Public Policy and Development Practice’ a new one-week intensive course will be launched at Bath in February 2010. For more information please see leaflet.

ONGOING RESEARCH ON WELLBEING

Current work at Bath includes:

1. a study of religion and wellbeing in India and Bangladesh funded by DFID (see www.rad.bham.ac.uk/index.php?section=19#mod_90)
2. A collaborative action research project with Oxfam Hong Kong and NGOs in Zambia and Nepal (See WeD working paper 09/50).
3. A collaboration with CAFOD and Tearfund on the development policy implications for the UK of taking human flourishing as policy goal.

Research on combining wellbeing and governance frameworks for analysing conflicts around conservation and poverty reduction in fishing communities in South Asia is being led by Allister McGregor, Institute of Development Studies at Sussex, through a Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) funded pilot project.

Research on children’s wellbeing is being led by Laura Camfield, within Young Lives, a long-term international study investigating the changing nature of child poverty in India, Ethiopia, Peru and Vietnam, and based at Oxford Department of International Development, Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford.

Work on the challenges and opportunities of promoting multicultural approaches to the understanding and promotion of wellbeing is being undertaken within Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh, led by Neil Thin.