Course: Social Wellbeing
EEG Neuro-headsets for mobile emotion monitoring
The latest technology can now fairly easily measure how our environment impacts on our emotions as well as our levels of stress and relaxation. What aspects of your life would …
Welfare states and wellbeing
In this video we discuss that wellbeing data has the potential to strengthen the development of successful strategies and policies. Looking at those countries that are usually ranked highly in …
Overview of main themes and messages from the course
Wellbeing: common interests, diverse perspectives We have already seen from the number and diversity of people signing up for the course that wellbeing themes are being considered and addressed in …
Correlations and misleading inferences
We have seen in this course that tremendous advances have been made in comprehending wellbeing and have already learned about great examples of groups and organisations at local and national …
Introduction to week 3
This introduction gives you an overview of the final week of the course. In this week we will ask how we can use our knowledge of wellbeing to inform approaches …
Assessment of wellbeing – a global governance perspective
In this interview with Dr Katherine Trebeck, Senior Researcher at Oxfam Scotland, we learn about Oxfam’s policy assessment tool that measures the impact of policies on wellbeing. We also explore …
Case study on environment protection regulation and wellbeing
While the work of environment protection agencies is for the benefit of everybody, often their work is criticised as burdensome regulation (see a recent article by Arlie Hochschild in the …
Barriers to implementing wellbeing at national level
In Week 1 we learned that there is international momentum behind ‘going beyond GDP’ and that considerable progress has been made in various countries to measure wellbeing. Here we talk …
What is appreciative learning?
The concept of appreciation is central to the study and practice of living well. There are two main senses of ‘appreciate’. By default, it means to notice, try to understand, …
Composite versus multiple wellbeing scores
Can anyone meaningfully evaluate their ‘life as a whole’? If they can, how do they do it, and in what ways might this information be useful? The Enlightenment and the …
Life as a whole
In this video we look at a type of approach that could be described as considering “life-as-a-whole”. Using a typology developed by Dutch sociologist Ruut Veenhoven we will ask the …
Linking up with like-minded organisations: Create a scrapbook
What kind of ideas of events have you come across which demonstrate creative approach to wellbeing? Share your examples of the co-production of social wellbeing. Help us build up a …
Community gardening for health, mental health, and conviviality
Here we discuss the motivations and experiences of people involved in community gardening projects in Edinburgh. This is just one example of community members coming together to take achievable and …
The Benefits of Social Prescribing
Background In the UK, roughly 70% of the health budget is spent on chronic illnesses, many of which are presented to health service professionals as ‘multimorbidities’ afflicting people with complex …
