Key Links
Website for WeD - the Wellbeing in Developing Countries Research Group
www.welldev.org.uk
Site for the study of creativity, technology and embodied mind.
www.creativity-embodiedmind.com
ESRC Research Group on Lifestyles, Values and Environment
www.surrey.ac.uk/resolve
ESRC Research Centre on Micro Social Change. New research is being undertaken on people's everyday lives and social change.
Manchester Metropolitan University’s Research Institute for Health and Social Change (RIHSC)
Prof Jeffrey Sachs argues that the world faces challenges on an unprecedented scale-the destruction of the planet through global warming, terrorism, extreme poverty, disease, and bad governance. Discover more about the solution he offers
www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith2007
Funds research on social issues
Latest information on research funded by the ESRC
Democratic left pressure group for a more equal and democratic world
The New Economics Foundation. An independent ‘think and do’ tank, including well-being.
Research on well-being from the Centre for Economic Performance at the LSE.
www.cep.lse.ac.uk/research/wellbeing
Independent research institute conducting research to promote economic wellbeing and quality of life.
Downloadable research papers on well-being
First International Conference on Community, Work and Family: change and transformation. Manchester 2005
Cross-national research study of young adults negotiating the work-family boundary
www.workliferesearch.org/transitions
European network for positive psychology
Funding for sustainable development, including well-being.
http://www.defra.gov.uk:80/science/funding/competitions.htm
UK Government site for sustainable development, including well-being.
www.defra.gov.uk/environment/sustainable
Sustainable Development Research Network. Includes well-being
Economic and Social Research Council
Several Universities have collaborated to form the virtual Work-life Research Centre which has a range of research projects on the quality of life.
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation is the largest UK's independent social policy research and development charity. It supports a wide programme of research and development projects in housing, social care and social policy.
This is a world data base of happiness: a continuous register of research on subjective appreciation of life.
www.eur.nl/fsw/research/happiness
The ESRC's Centre for Globalisation and Regionalisation. It also has key links to other sites.
The World Watch Institute, Washington, USA. An internet source for cross-disciplinary global environmental information.
Public Art. A new developing site for the public, artists and arts administrators. It will have links to other organisations.
Consciousness Research. Concerned with the interdisciplinary field of consciousness theory and research. Includes fundamental considerations of mind, body, environment and aesthetics.
www.consciousness.arizona.edu/
Reith Lectures.
A Question of Trust. Reith lectures 2002. We say we no longer trust
our public services, institutions or the people who run them.
The End of Age. Reith lectures 2001. Dramatic increases in life
expectancy are shaking the structure of societies around the world.
The Runaway World. Reith lectures 1999. See the debate on equality,
globalisation, democracy, family and tradition.
www.bbc.co.radio4/reith/
www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith2002/
www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith2001/
www.lse.ac.uk/giddens
Comment and analysis on environment, globalisation and politics.
Demos. An independent think tank based in London launched in 1993 to help revive public policy and political thinking.
Leisure Studies Association. Founded in 1975 the LSA is concerned with research and policy for leisure in the context of work and the family. For information on publications, conferences, and membership click on this link.
www.leisure-studies-association.info/lsaweb/index.html
Developments in positive psychology, particularly in the USA
British Psychological Society, Consciousness and Experiential Psychology Section
Last updated 30-12-07