Seminar 1

Wellbeing: The Interaction Between Person and Environment

11th September 2001

Dean Rees House, Bartholomews and the London Medical School, Queen Mary University of London, Charterhouse Square, London EC1M 6BQ

Co-ordinator: Professor Sarah Curtis
Seminar presentations: Speaker's notes


10.00 - 10.20	Arrival for 10.20 start to the proceedings
	Opening
10.20 - 10.45	Introduction: Prof Graham Hart, MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit University of Glasgow.
	The psychological relation of environment and individual Chair: Prof Philip Evans, Department of Psychology, University of Westminster
10.45 - 11.05	Presentation by Dr John Pickering, Psychology Department, Warwick University Environment-Individual integration
11.05 - 11.30	Discussion (led by Discussant: Prof Stefan Priebe, Bartholomew's and the Royal London School of Medicine and Dentistry, QMUL, Unit for Social & Community Psychiatry)
	Pause
11.30 - 11.45	coffee
	The role of geographical environment Chair: Prof Sarah Curtis, Dept of Geography, QMUL
11.45 - 12.05	Presentation by Professor Wil Gesler,Department of Geography The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA Therapeutic landscapes
12.05 - 12.30	Discussion (led by Discussant: Prof Morag Bell, Department of Geography Loughborough University)
	Pause
12.30 - 1.45	Buffet lunch
	Individual and the collective contributions to wellbeing Chair: Professor Ade Kearns, Department of Urban Studies, University of Glasgow
1.45 - 2.05	Presentation by Professor Stephen Stansfeld, Department of Psychiatry,Barts and the London, Queen Mary’s School of Medicine And Dentistry, QMUL The relationship between social support and individual wellbeing.
2.05 - 2.25	Presentation by Dr David Halpern, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences,Cambridge University Personal and Collective Determinants of subjective wellbeing: Should Subjective wellbeing be an Objective of Policy?
2.25 - 3 .30	Discussion (led by Discussant: Prof Digby Tantam, Centre for Study of Violence and Reconciliation,University of Sheffield)
	Pause
3.30 - 3.45	Tea
	Wellbeing and positive psychology/ Conclusion Chair: Antony Morgan, Head of Research and Information, Health Development Agency
3.45 - 4.05	Presentation by: Dr John Haworth, Department of Psychology and Speech Pathology,Manchester Metropolitan University And Dr Jane Henry, Experiential Research Group, Open University Wellbeing and positive psychology
4.05 - 4.45	Discussion: of preceding paper and Closing discussion to sum up the main points from the day as a whole.
4.45	Tea and close at 5.00.