What is wellbeing and how can we measure it? (UCL)

UCL Town Meeting on Wellbeing: "What is wellbeing and how can we measure it?"
The meeting, hosted by UCL's Grand Challenge of Human Wellbeing, considered how we might establish a UCL definition of wellbeing, what is important for wellbeing, and identify some key themes and aspects of research relating to wellbeing.
Consideration of wellbeing what constitutes it and how to achieve it is particularly timely at present in the context of the global economic crisis and the debate over how to achieve recovery and what recovery should look like. This includes a consideration of the wellbeing of society that is more sophisticated than simply measuring GDP: how to ensure that a prosperous society translates into a society with a strong sense of wellbeing will be one of the key challenges in the coming months and years.
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