Author Archive for Centre for Thriving Places

About Centre for Thriving Places

Bogus billboard at Upfest

Creative community challenges to visual pollution

Continuing our series of guest blogs highlighting themes of the Economic of Happiness conference this weekend, Nicola Round from Adblock Bristol looks at why people in the city are rising up... read more →

The question is how, rather than what

Stewart Wallis, chair of  the Wellbeing Economy Alliance (WEAll) is a keynote speaker at the Economics of Happiness conference in Bristol, UK (19-21 October). Ahead of his presentation at the conference, Stewart... read more →

New challenge to GDP at the heart of Green Party Policy

Today the Green Party has announced it’s first manifesto commitment: to overthrow the idea that GDP growth is the true measure progress. Happy City have been shouting this message from... read more →

Economics of Happiness conference 2018

The Economics of Happiness Conference is all about solutions to the biggest challenges of our times. In October 2018 we hosted the three day conference, and gathered together people with... read more →

What affects people’s wellbeing in local areas?

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) recently published their latest estimates of personal wellbeing in the UK. In addition to providing a picture of personal wellbeing at national level, there... read more →

Can data translate into radical action?

What opportunities lie behind this week’s ONS wellbeing data releases, and why might it profoundly matter to our collective future? Last week 238 leading international academics publically called on the European Union... read more →

Ten years on – the beginning of the end or the birth of the new?

Ahead of a global Economic of Happiness conference in the UK in October, Liz Zeidler, chief executive of Happy City, looks back to the financial crash of 2008 and its... read more →

Getting the measure of the youth experience

World Cup thrills, Wimbledon shocks, Tour de France Welsh wizardry, a crazy heatwave – the summer of 2018 will be one to remember for all sorts of reasons. At Happy... read more →

Happy treasuries?

Saamah Abdallah, Happy City’s wellbeing advisor, recently attended an OECD advisory meeting discussing the use of wellbeing metrics in policy. In his blog, he reflects on evolving attitudes to wellbeing... read more →

Introducing … wellbeing inequality

THE MEASURE THAT GETS TO THE HEART OF WHO THE ECONOMY IS REALLY WORKING FOR If there’s one thing that we learned from the political turmoil of the past few... read more →
Cancel