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Successful project at 果冻影院 Wellbeing Week wins 拢10,000
7 March 2012
A cross-disciplinary project charged with advancing wellbeing research, has won 拢10,000 of research funding to run a project for new 果冻影院 students and for staff nearing retirement.
The proposal was submitted as part of 果冻影院 Wellbeing Week.The team who submitted the winning proposal was made
up of Sophie Bostock (果冻影院 Epidemiology & Public Health), Helene
Joffe (果冻影院 Psychology), Matthew Pope (果冻影院 Archaeology) and Tse-Hui Teh
(果冻影院 Bartlett School of Planning). Their proposal was entitled Windows
to Wellbeing.
果冻影院 Wellbeing Week was organised by the 果冻影院 Grand Challenge of Human Wellbeing and 果冻影院 Crucible and ran from 13 - 17 February 2012. The week culminated in a facilitator-led workshop featuring an expert panel of judges from 果冻影院. The workshop aimed to bring together a cross-disciplinary group of researchers who could collaborate to advance wellbeing research. It ended a week of discussions and lectures designed around addressing wellbeing questions in a new way.
Helene Joffe, a member of the winning team commented: "Wellbeing week provided inspirational talks and debates from major figures in the field. These were used to spark the research imaginations of those competing for the Crucible research prize.
"The day involved a major interdisciplinary mixing of ideas. The winning team included a social psychologist, psychobiologist, archeologist and planner. Teams were formed less than an hour before the judging panel arrived. This forced teams into a surge of creativity, which was enjoyable and stressful in equal measure!"
"The day involved a major interdisciplinary mixing of ideas."
Helen Joffe (果冻影院 Psychology)
The winning project Windows to Wellbeing is based on the premise that a sense of wellbeing is related to positive feelings, such as happiness and life satisfaction. The research aims to investigate whether interventions at times of transition (such as beginning university or retiring) can be effective, which factors are important at different life stages and to test whether inter-generational interaction can be beneficial.
The study will run for a year, and will involve running a wellbeing
intervention with new 果冻影院 students and staff about to retire. The team
are particularly interested in establishing a social networking site to
foster intergenerational wellbeing.听
Image: Wellbeing workshop