Guest blog from philosopher and long-time Centre for Thriving Places associate Sam Wren-Lewis During my time as Head of Research and Development at Centre for Thriving Places, I helped develop the Happiness Pulse and Thriving Places Index – two world-leading tools for measuring wellbeing. The idea driving both tools is... read more →
Nov
06
Nov
01
Centre for Thriving Places is working with the Royal West of England Academy – Bristol’s oldest public art gallery – to measure, understand and improve wellbeing using our Happiness Pulse data analytics and bespoke wellbeing training. The project began in September 2019 and is focussed on embedding a ‘culture of... read more →
Oct
28
Last week, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) released their annual personal wellbeing data at local level bulletin. This is a data set and analysis of self-reported wellbeing - people’s own assessment of how they feel about their lives. For the second year running, the ONS have included data from... read more →
Oct
28
Happy City is working with the Royal West of England Academy - Bristol’s oldest public art gallery - to measure, understand and improve wellbeing using our Happiness Pulse data analytics and bespoke wellbeing training. The project began in September 2019 and is focussed on embedding a ‘culture of wellbeing’ in... read more →
Oct
23
We’re thrilled that data from the Thriving Places Index has been included in the latest ONS personal wellbeing bulletin. Four case studies have been produced from the Thriving Places Index to use to understand particularly low areas of wellbeing (Lambeth and Wolverhampton) and high wellbeing (Chichester and North Devon). The... read more →
Oct
14
Last week decision makers from around the world gathered at the OECD headquarters in Paris to discuss “Putting Wellbeing Metrics into Policy Action”. It was the third time Centre for Thriving Places has spoken at the OECD. The earlier occasions in 2013-14 were in the early days of our work... read more →
Sep
25
This week, many of our past academic partners alongside our colleagues at What Works Centre for Wellbeing published new research into the role of place and community conditions for wellbeing. Whilst only a preliminary report, it already points the way to vitally important lessons for anyone interested in supporting people... read more →
Sep
24
The current economic logic says that if somewhere is making money, it’s doing well. But here at Happy City we've always been clear that that’s only part of the story. GDP is a measure of wealth, not wellbeing and using it as a sole metric to measure societal progress misses... read more →
Sep
18
Why is it that almost all the radical approaches to delivering a new economic vision are being led by women? From Jacinda Ardern in New Zealand to Nicola Sturgeon in Scotland, there is a North-to-South shared agenda calling for wellbeing to be put at the heart of government thinking. Here... read more →
Sep
02
We've added three new additional modules to the Happiness Pulse - making it possible to understand how people's wellbeing is connected to their workplace, housing or active life. You can add these new question sets (as well as the Community Pulse additional question module) onto the core Happiness Pulse question... read more →