Health, Wellbeing and Happiness: from local action to global change
This two-day conference will bring together leading social scientists and humanities scholars from around the world to present and evaluate contributions to the rapidly growing academic field of health, wellbeing and happiness studies.
Confirmed keynote speakers include:
- Professor Frank Furedi, University of Kent
- Professor Michael Murray, Keele University
- Dr Dimitris Ballas, University of Sheffield
- Dr Daniel Nettle, University of Newcastle
- Dr Iain Wilkinson, University of Kent
Key areas that will be explored at the conference will include:
- What is happiness?
- Measures of happiness and policy
- What makes us happy?
- Is it all in the mind?
- Health and wellbeing
We are currently accepting abstracts (250-350 words) and poster descriptions for the conference. If you are interested in submitting either, please email them to Catherine Iles by 30 January 2008 - c.iles@tees.ac.uk
For more information, queries or questions about work streams, abstracts and presentations, email Professor Anna van Wersch on a.van-wersch@tees.ac.uk.
More information about registering for the conference will be released after 30 November 2007.
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