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Director, Evidence & Insight @LR_Foundation World Risk Poll - Ex @WhatWorksWB @PolicyProfUK - Trustee @TheNCCH Leadership Fellow @StGeorgesHouse FRSA SaintsFC

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It turns out you can do quite a lot in ten years. An amazing round up of the more than 90 collaborations and the changes that are happening as a result. Thank you
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What Works Centre for Wellbeing
3 months
In our final blog the Centre’s Executive Director, Nancy Hey ( @Work_Life_You ) reflects on the achievements & challenges of the last decade, & looks ahead at the work still to be done:
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@Kjoen2u @simongerman600 Oh my god Lithuania not yet
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@DJGould94 This is actually a massive problem, especially for high performers. I did a research project on it in organisations for MSc = feedback for things done well is non existent or too general to be useful. It goes against what helps learning & performance where feedback is v effective
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@jamestplunkett Commuting has always been one of the most discussed well-being findings. Essentially we don’t adapt to it, it annoys us everyday, it eats time that can be used for leisure and health. Better if active commute and/or major life choice.
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We talk a lot about #loneliness , and yes I miss my friends family and colleagues right now, but after being in the house all day with children I also really appreciated #solitude .
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@Reezeisme @softboyuk Probably a lot to be said for having a funny time and laughing together especially as we all learn this tech together 😹
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The UK has a loneliness minister, a suicide prevention minister and an obesity strategy. Guessing it’s quite cultural. What it was flipped? Why if we focused on what we want rather than what we don’t?
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The UK Treasury has published guidance on including wellbeing in policy making & spending in a systematic & evidence based way. Of interest to analysts & evaluators but it’s been great to bring @PolicyProfUK perspective as well as the work of @WhatWorksWB
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@sarahditum @unherd the age of 11 as “the age I sensed a shift from boy to girl without my consent”. This is, I think, a common sensation for girls: puberty ends an era of uncomplicated, happy embodiment” - no surprise we see average girls wellbeing dropping from age 13
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A reminder that it’s totally normal to have good days & bad days and for emotions to be up & down. Right now feelings of anxiety, sadness, frustration, pessimism are a normal response. As are contentment or joy. No need to feel guilty. They are information & will pass.
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Looking forward to joining an amazing group of people at the #ShapingUs symposium tomorrow to bring the wellbeing evidence base into action.
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The Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood
9 months
We're delighted to announce our first ever #ShapingUs Symposium! The event, hosted by The Princess of Wales, will bring together cross-disciplinary leaders, child and adult specialists, and global thinkers for the first time. Find out more:
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With huge thanks to the brilliant Board and teams @WhatWorksWB and @EndLonelinessUK we have some news The What Works Centre for Wellbeing will close at the end of April 2024. See more ▶️
@WhatWorksWB
What Works Centre for Wellbeing
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We’re sad to announce @whatworkswb will close 30 April 2024, after almost a decade as the UK’s leading centre for wellbeing evidence, policy & practice. Thank you to our collaborators & supporters for making 9 years of progress possible. Full statement:
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A massive thank you to the now 16 THOUSAND of you a month who’ve used @WhatWorksWB site and who helped us reach 1.2 MILLION views of evidence, policy and practice in 3 years. Amazing collaborative action to improve wellbeing in the UK and beyond.
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2 years
Not a bad spot for a wellbeing conference
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Very much looking forward to joining The Royal Foundation launch of this report today. An event I would much rather was in person :) Help young parents, pleads Duchess of Cambridge
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1 year
Monday office book post - includes a chapter from me on Measuring What Matters Join us on Thursday for the launch
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3 years
I often hear ‘we do a bit on well-being’ or ‘we used to focus on it but it’s not a priority this year’ especially from public policy folk in public sector & civil society. This is spectacularly wrong. *Everything* you do is aiming to improve lives aka wellbeing. See here 1/3 ➡️
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2 years
You’d think there were no women working on this….
@geoffmulgan
Geoff Mulgan
2 years
My blog on 'Levelling Up': the good, bad, & ugly and why we should think of this as Version 1 rather than just dismissing it (complementing interesting comments from @thomasforth @Nightingale_P @RGurumurthy @henryoverman @harrytlambert @FRSAMatthew ..)
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Really excited to announce the Campaign to End Loneliness has moved to the What Works Centre for Wellbeing as we work together to improve evidence and action to tackle loneliness across the whole of life. Two cracking jobs too 1) community manager 2) comms manager please share ➡️
@WhatWorksWB
What Works Centre for Wellbeing
4 years
The pandemic has highlighted how social #relationships are essential for our #wellbeing . We are collaborating with @EndLonelinessUK to: 👶→👵 Focus on #loneliness across the lifecourse 🤝 Strengthen evidence of what works to improve social connection
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According to my daughter having *data* about being *bored* is the most *boring* thing you can do 🤣 we are really bored, frustrated & apathetic. As stressed a normal but a lot less happy. Lockdown 3 also means a *bit* more lonely and bit less scared.
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1 year
News overnight from Australia 🇦🇺 their first National Wellbeing Framework Interestingly led by Treasury
@Treasury_AU
Australian Treasury
1 year
We’ve released the Measuring What Matters Framework and Dashboard! This is the first iteration of Australia's national wellbeing framework. It explores what matters most to Australians. Read the Framework and explore the Dashboard @
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3 years
My first go at a little video commentary on the latest subjective well-being data for the uk. It’s rough & ready as I’m trying it out as it’s been super popular in the sessions I’ve done - feedback v welcome on video technique and questions about the data #wellbeing #data
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7 years
'The way you treat the staff is the way they treat the patients' 'there aren't two cultures in a workplace' inspiring #r4today
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6 years
Wellbeing evidence knowledge bank - all our evidence reviews in one place to give you confidence in strength of evidence of wellbeing claims @WhatWorksWB @WorkLearnWell @PlaceWellbeing @LouMansfield101 @CEP_LSE
@WhatWorksWB
What Works Centre for Wellbeing
6 years
We've put the evidence findings from 16 systematic reviews in one place - ready for you to search and find what works
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Not a new finding - feeling close to others helps feel happier - but the discussion is new. How does a country, including its politics, government & civic society, need to change to better prioritise relationships, friendships and family?
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4 years
Just did a presentation on wellbeing and work to 400+ people - amazing that’s possible & nerve wracking!Most pleased that someone said it was the best session they’ve attended on wellbeing. That goes with last weeks I thought well-being was fluffy but it really isn’t. Thank you
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Really joyous to see UK industrial heritage being enjoyed by so many this weekend @CanalRiverTrust making life better by water
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5 years
Not my normal evening... book launch
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4 years
This is a massive massive important study done very quickly and findings are wow. Worth reading the whole thread ➡️
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6 years
I have just learnt about conditional formatting in excel and applying it to everything 🤓🤣
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2 years
Fascinated by how the wellbeing bit of #LevellingUp is repeatedly dropped from commentary and reporting. It’s the overarching outcome for which everything else is the road map.
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1 year
Can’t believe this is my first ever go on the Waterloo & City line. Cracking tube map.
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3 years
Goodbye and thank you dear friend 🌺
@DyingWell_UK
Clair
3 years
Clair died today. We are thankful for her life, which she lived well, and for all the happiness we have enjoyed together. Thank you for being part of Clair’s Dying Well Journey. This final blog post is her Goodbye.
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Love to see research use in action - 20,000 young women feeling more connected. Moving to London is a transition associated with higher loneliness in our ⁦ @WhatWorksWB ⁩ ⁦ @EndLonelinessUK ⁩ ⁦ @neighbourlylab ⁩ for @LDN_gov research below
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The drop in happiness (positive affect) that you feel going back to work after the Christmas holidays is real & shared ie very normal. It’s the biggest happiness drop in the year although not the lowest level. Only beaten by March 2020 as biggest drop.
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5 years
Great to see evaluation of the ⁦ @actionhappiness ⁩ course by ⁦ @CEP_LSE ⁩ ⁦ @OxWellResearch ⁩ on @bbcnews 6 o’clock news with ⁦ @BBCMarkEaston ⁩ this evening. Will be added to ⁦ @WhatWorksWB ⁩ wellbeing evidence tomorrow. Evidenced growing step by step
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Have replaced my morning commute with ‘a nice sit down’ with coffee, papers, catching up on WhatsApp correspondence and it comes with a bonus cat.
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Love big skies and edge of the ocean
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@_alice_evans I’ve done it by train. Was very good. Did the higher route though NY, Chicago, rockies, salt lake, san Fran, Portland, Seattle. It’s slow. Pretty.
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I had made a bit too hopeful a plan to see @MattChorley s show with @DyingWell_UK so Clair’s husband joined me and we got to say thank you for sharing Clair’s story and Dying Well work so well while political stories broke all around.
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Gorgeous day & venue @MuseumoftheHome to share learning of how we can help people working in the homelessness sector thrive with @HomelessLink #learningatwork
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3 years
I find #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek uncomfortable because I see a lot of awareness & want to get on to the action. And there is a lot of action now too. I am keen on awareness of the action - in workplaces, education, massive research investment, treatment, communities & families
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If we are really concerned about wellbeing of children and young people we would measure it regularly, properly, consistently and report publicly.
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I’ve been working w ⁦ @DCMS ⁩ tackling loneliness team & a brilliant group of loneliness researchers to update what we know collectively since ⁦ @WhatWorksWB ⁩ 2018 review, where we are on the gaps & what we need to know next to inform action 1/2
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4 years
Really fascinating from @YouGov we are no longer scared but now bored, frustrated and increasingly apathetic. Happiness still not bounced back even though. Are we missing fun and even human touch and hugs?
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3 years
Almost as good a collective act of citizenship as voting
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4 years
Not being able to make plans sounds like a small thing but it’s not. 1) lots of mood boosting happiness comes from the anticipation AND 2) we lose feelings of efficacy, achievement, optimism, hope, agency & control essential for freedom & thriving = apathy and frustration
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Scott Bryan
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It’s weird not having any event to look forward to, isn’t it?
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Good physical and mental health are central to our happiness and well-being. Yet so much of what keeps us healthy happens outside of hospital and the health service ➡️ New Office for Health Promotion to drive improvement of nation’s health
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Nancy Hey
2 years
Great to be at the Houses of Parliament for the @Spiritof2012 #PowerOfEvents Inquiry launch. I’m very proud to see @WhatWorksWB evidence inside the report and that the learning continues. Very practical recommendations from a decade of action ➡️
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Am reframing ‘doing my email’ as ‘catching up with my correspondence’ and it feels more grand.
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7 years
A brilliant over view with nice pictures of the wellbeing/life satisfaction data findings globally
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@ProfFeynman Hi please say in your bio that you are not actually Richard
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3 years
Can someone commission us to review community & individual wellbeing impacts of sports and culture events and institutions now please?
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‘the smartest city is the social city’ Prof John Helliwell #WorldGovSummit
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3 years
Writing course content for new online course. Useful books... 📚 🤓
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Society & Social capital: What Works Evidence review and synthesis 1) interventions to improve community cohesion, social support networks and neighbourhood belonging
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3 years
Splendid new metric
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Les Binet
3 years
Chart of the week
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Some News We @WhatWorksWB are going to be doing some wellbeing trials directly with a wellbeing top-up, rather than only helping others do them. With thanks to the Evaluation Accelerator Fund from Cabinet Office/Treasury Evaluation Task Force working across @WhatWorksUK
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What Works Centre for Wellbeing
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New: wellbeing evaluation top-up fund announced 🎉 Funded by the Evaluation Accelerator Fund, we're leading the expansion of 15 trials to include validated measures of subjective #wellbeing , in collaboration with other @WhatWorksUK centres. Read more:
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We have feelings, they are not us. They are information. You don’t have to hold on to them. You can put them down, see them from a distance, work out what they’re telling you - to try and help you - and decide how you want to act.
@SusanDavid_PhD
Susan David, Ph.D.
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You are not your feelings.
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@ClareMoriarty Name badges too!
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4 years
There are a lot of reports about how children are doing but this is the best. And it’s not great for the future. We could easily assess children’s wellbeing at scale in schools and find out what actually helps & harms rather than fighting in the dark. #goodchildhoodreport
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Mark Russell 🇺🇦 (he/him)
4 years
Today we publish #GoodChildhoodReport showing UK children have the lowest levels of life satisfaction in Europe. Please read the report and join @childrensociety in asking your MP to demand government prioritise children’s well-being #WeWontBeSidelined
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Both spot on from ⁦ @Nigella_Lawson ⁩ here. Notice the small joys they make the whole, including solitude and exercise
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@sahmriWRC I am a big fan of the evidence based PERMA PLUS model of wellbeing used in South Australia: Positive emotion, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning, Achievement, physical activity, nutrition, sleep & optimism @sahmriWRC #WorldGovSummit
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How are we doing UK? We’re a lot happier & less sad than we were in March but not back to ‘normal’ and are still much more bored, frustrated & less content. Apathy still higher but optimism recovering. Loneliness & frustration dropping but still high.
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Weirdly we often see an increase in wellbeing from increased social connection, including just chatting to neighbours or teacher, but not necessarily a decrease in loneliness.
@AdamMGrant
Adam Grant
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The best cure for loneliness is not more frequent interaction. It's more meaningful interaction. Many people enjoy solitude. They can spend up to ~75% of their time alone without feeling isolated. What matters most for well-being is the quality of connections, not the quantity.
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Wellbeing of Future Generations Act in Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 U.K. is of huge interest. Great to hear from @sophiehowe @futuregencymru
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🇬🇧 the UK has measured hope for the future for the first time - What ages are -Hope for the Future highest? -satisfaction with relationships lowest? - feeling most unfairly treated? - most satisfied with how they use their time? - least satisfied with their local area?
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@WhatWorksWB
What Works Centre for Wellbeing
9 months
🚨Analysis of latest @ONS #wellbeing data🚨 How are we doing in the UK? We explore what the quarterly & annual data tells us, look at further breakdowns by age & sex, & examine newly added measures including #hope & #fairness . Read the blog:
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I don’t think you’ve done your research properly @IPPR You call for a new What Works institution to support place space relationships, community, opportunity and ref Foundations and WW Scotland but not @WhatWorksWB the organisation actually doing this for the last nine years
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IPPR
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⏰ | NEW REPORT: A stark divide in health & wealth throughout the UK is leaving many ‘bad health blackspots’ sicker and poorer than their neighbours. Our latest paper looks at the causes behind this divide, & proposes ambitious solutions. Read here ⤵️
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I wish we were tracking the well-being of children, young people and their families right now. We’ve got a large number of pupils learning from home with more time with family and a good number of pupils in school. We could compare impacts and benefits of each so well!
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@I_Am_NickBloom Very good to know this is consistent with what previous research predicts.
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Nancy Hey
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There are a lot of rollercoaster 🎢 emotions right now and lots of changes to adapt to - remember your brain and body will be working overtime to process them = rest, stop and actually feel the emotions, be gentle with yourself & each other #covid19UK
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I agree with this and the same is largely true on mental health too. What has changed is we’ve realised how much they matter to our lives and societies AND that we can and should do something about both.
@OurWorldInData
Our World in Data
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In the past years thousands of newspaper headlines claimed that we are living through a ‘loneliness epidemic’. We looked for the data on that. Loneliness deserves attention, but these headlines are not true, and are actually unhelpful. Our post:
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@ladyhaja My 16 year old self wouldn’t have! Still can’t quite believe the sports desk made me do a twirl across the news desk as my ‘interview’ when at the local paper for work experience as my request to do some football reporting was turned down.
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Two great Head of Wellbeing roles in big organisations. One of the ⁦ @WhatWorksWB ⁩ goals has been that would be great roles like this in practice and in research that people could have an impactful career in and lead wellbeing in the UK. See early roles➡️ It’s happening 1/2
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Back at the Olympic Park marking 10 years from the London 2012 Games looking at maximising the impact of major events & their legacy with @Spiritof2012 to connect, be active, be creative, help, smile, to work hard for people & placemaking #InvestingInHappiness #SpiritMakingWaves
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I am astonished by how much staff ‘wellbeing’ utter fluff & nonsense is being done with almost wilful ignorance. It’s got worse Question hard about what’s been recommended / sold & how they know. There are very excellent people and interventions available & if in doubt TEST.
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This will get more views than likes or RTs I reckon… Civil Service Staff wellbeing by department for sept-dec 2022 - shows % of staff in each org rating high on each of the personal wellbeing measures.
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What Works Centre for Wellbeing
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We analysed new data from @UKcivilservice to see whether public sector #wellbeing is still in recovery following the pandemic Findings show how wellbeing & work interact, & could help us formulate workplace interventions in all sectors More in blog 🧵1/4
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Nancy Hey
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Partner relationship is second biggest factor in life satisfaction and it’s not something where there’s any societal leadership really. Fascinating run through of the data here
@lewis_goodall
Lewis Goodall
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So for personal reasons, marriage has been on my mind. Have been reading @ONS data on the subject. I hadn’t quite realised just how big and rapid the changes have been over the past 50yrs. Says something about or misunderstanding of the past and about being young(ish) today🧵
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@MaxCRoser Better mental health treatment, prevention & promotion
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Nancy Hey
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Good to hear discussion on #Today @BBCRadio4 of how you can feel alone, the only one dealing with a cancer diagnosis, and the value of the King sharing his. This type of #loneliness is called Existential Loneliness where your experience separates you from others.
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Nancy Hey
4 years
We have updated the Commission for Wellbeing & Policy 5 years on with new evidence and the amazing breadth of activity in the UK across governments, business and civil society. Thank you to all our teams and partners past and present.
@WhatWorksWB
What Works Centre for Wellbeing
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What factors affect our #wellbeing ? Download our #Wellbeing at the heart of #policy report >>
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Nancy Hey
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That’s worth quite a lot in wellbeing, leisure time & health. An additional 20 minutes of commuting each day was found (on average) to have the equivalent effect on job satisfaction as a 19% reduction in income – this is a loss of £4,080 per annum for someone earning £21,600
@tomjrowley
Tom Rowley
4 years
The average Londoner spends 80 mins a day commuting, more than in Europe or New York. If they worked from home, they would save 297 hours a year, according to the TUC. If they sleep for eight hours a day, that’s three and a half working weeks.
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Nancy Hey
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Blown away 🤯 by the amazing progress ⁦ @GMBeeWell ⁩ are making on young peoples #wellbeing across Greater Manchester. Neighbourhood life satisfaction for young men is this view being used by so many orgs and communities to make lives better. so much more available
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Nancy Hey
4 years
Today @WhatWorksWB share our update on the Commission on Wellbeing & Policy 5 years on with new evidence and the amazing breadth of activity in the uk across governments, business and civil society to understand and improve wellbeing - see many of you this evening 🥂
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Nancy Hey
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Having a job is good for Wellbeing and having a good quality job is miles better - 🇬🇧 has been good at creating jobs, #MeasuringGoodWork metrics launched today will help us know if they are GOOD jobs. Loved helping with this #jobquality #workwell @WhatWorksWB @WorkLearnWell
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Great to hear @vivek_murthy differentiating loneliness into subjective (feeling lonely) & objective (social isolation) #RSALoneliness there’s also solitude too. here’s the conceptual review of loneliness @WhatWorksWB @EndLonelinessUK
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Nancy Hey
7 years
This has been a long time in the making and involved a lot of getting in the shoes of others - NEW online guide to measuring your wellbeing impact. It’ll even build you a set of questions to use.
@WhatWorksWB
What Works Centre for Wellbeing
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New guidance: how to measure your #wellbeing impact for #charities and social enterprises @NCVO @BigLotteryFund @NEF @localitynews @CLESthinkdo
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@gavinoattes Yep. Turns out there are many ways to get a three letter word wrong
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Nancy Hey
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Trying to work on the positives here - could we create more oxytocin inspiring hygge with our smaller social groups over the autumn and winter. Small gatherings, cosines and appreciating walks in bracing weather
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Nancy Hey
3 years
@katejosephs Well-being as the goal of policy making
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Nancy Hey
1 year
This is far too close to home today and this last year - reducing death and bereavement by suicide is one the main reasons I do what I do. Better data is part of the solution. Each data point here is a devastating loss.
@ONS
Office for National Statistics (ONS)
1 year
We've published an article on the Sociodemographic inequalities in suicides in England and Wales: 2011 to 2021 We estimate rates of suicide across different groups and examine which factors are independently associated with the risk of suicide. ➡️
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Nancy Hey
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This is fantastic - mental health research has stood still for 30 years while we’ve seen huge advances in other areas, this changes things in an area that we’ve forgotten is important
@mirandarwolpert
Prof Miranda Wolpert
5 years
The moment has arrived ... details of @wellcometrust 's priority mental health programme now available on website. Starts Jan 2020. Now Looking for independent expert advisors - deadline Jan 12
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Nancy Hey
4 years
Having moved offices during the pandemic it’s my first visit to our new home today and it’s brilliant.
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Nancy Hey
2 years
Great to speak with ⁦ @FinancialTimes ⁩ - we see orgs ‘which performed best had already appointed chief medical officers before the pandemic began, and introduced strategies for physical and mental wellbeing—including plans for more flexible working.’
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Nancy Hey
3 years
This is such a rubbish binary point of money v relationships. Money helps a lot. Relationships help more than we think they do. They can also make us miserable. Our mental & physical health and a job/purpose are missing from this picture and this article.
@MetroUK
Metro
3 years
‘It is our relationships which are crucial to our wellbeing, not money. There are people who are relatively poor but they have good family and good friendship networks and they are far more fulfilled.’
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Nancy Hey
2 years
One of our aims @WhatWorksWB is for there to be a thriving wellbeing research field in 🇬🇧 & at Oxford University earlier this month there was a global #OxWellConf where it was buzzing! There was a *lot* to digest. More to come but Here’s a few takeaways
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Nancy Hey
7 years
The quality of growth matters and whether it's sustainable @HelenClarkUNDP #HappinessDialogue #WorldGovSummit
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Nancy Hey
4 years
Measuring wellbeing of young people in schools consistently & comparable at scale over time is the best thing we can do. It’s very do-able - it’s done in Australia, Middle East and Europe and in workplaces over many years. It helps us actually make a difference to what matters.
@UoMNews
UoM News
4 years
A major new project has launched which aims to understand and improve the wellbeing of secondary #school pupils across Greater #Manchester - a first for a UK city region @greatermcr @neilhumphreyUoM @AFNCCF @CORCcentral
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Nancy Hey
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Being by the water is when we tend to report being most happy.
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