WeD Research, Policy Engagement & Practice

One of the objectives of the WeD Research Group at Bath is to develop and disseminate tools for the use of wellbeing analysis in development policy and practice. This page provides resources to that end.

Policy Briefs
Written for WeD Seminar at the House of Commons:

• Wellbeing, Poverty, and Conflict
• Wellbeing Indicators: Measuring What Matters Most
• Wellbeing and the Rotten Foundations of a Development Success
• Social Policy for Sustainable Wellbeing

Wellbeing Assessment
A Continuing Professional Development (CPD) programme in Wellbeing Assessment is launched in February 2010 at the University of Bath.  For more information please see leaflet.

Research
Religion and Development Consortium Joe Devine and Sarah White are undertaking research on wellbeing and religion as part of the DFID funded Religions and Development Research Programme Consortium based at the University of Birmingham, 2005-2010. Their research component uses the WeD framework to explore how religion figures in the values and practices that make up people’s understanding and experience of wellbeing in selected sites of Bangladesh and India.

ESRC funding for Postgraduate Research in International Development: Wellbeing and Poverty