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From visiting the ghats in Varanasi to walking the Camino de Santiago, travelling can be a deeply spiritual experience.
Yoga, manifesting, and #livingyourbestlife may sound empowering. But wellness blames women, sets them up for failure, and hides the real challenges women face.
People are obsessed with finding happiness. But what if
People want to talk about how they conceptualise good health as much as they want to explain what caused them to become sick.
Wellbeing is not just an individual thing, it plays out in relationships with people and animals and even plants and our environment.
Social media does have some redeeming features – and its utility will depend on how you use it. But for many of us, the reward no longer outweighs the harms.
There is a pervasive message from fashion, tech and the media that women can change their lives if they could be more confident.
Governance structures that provide opportunities for people to contribute to decision-making would also enhance people’s abilities to control important factors in their life.
Accepting and embracing stress may just help us improve our mental health.
There is no universal minimum for the amount of living space we need. Rising spatial inequality, however, adversely impacts us on both individual and collective levels.
Could bringing back words with positive meanings make us happier?
A research team reports on its one-year project to improve the email habits of a large UK charity.
We reviewed hundreds of documents and reports on workplace safety in Amazon warehouses.
The change point at which the happiness of most Australians no longer strongly depends on income has almost doubled from A$43,000 to A$74,000.
Was participating in ceremony despite pandemic restrictions an act of Indigenous resistance and resurgence and did it reflect reassertion of nationhood and self-determination?
People inevitably became less contented during the pandemic, but it’s part of a longer trend.
Over the coming decade a new study will put citizens and communities at the centre of efforts to reimagine prosperity and define what constitutes a good quality of life.
As we push for a real solution — an increase in housing supply and related supports — the encampment evictions must stop. We need to make encampments unnecessary.
Prickly hedges capture large amounts of carbon dioxide, and are great homes for insects.
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Honorary Research Associate at the Behavioural Science Centre, University of Stirling
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Mental Health Researcher, University of Southern Denmark
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Professor and Head of the Department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen
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Professor of Coaching and Positive Psychology, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences
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Visiting Fellow, The Media School, Bournemouth University
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Senior Lecturer, Centre for Positive Health Sciences, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences
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Postdoctoral research assistant at the Welsh Institute of Physical Activity, Health & Sport (WIPAHS), Swansea University
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Professor in International Social Policy, University of Southampton
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Professor of Organisational Psychology and Health, University of Manchester
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Associate Professor, Centre for Positive Psychology, The University of Melbourne
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Professor, Director Australian Urban Observatory, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University
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Adjunct professor, The University of Western Australia
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Chair of Public Health, University of Warwick
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Founding Director, Institute for Sustainability, University of Surrey
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Researcher in enhancing wellbeing, Cardiff Metropolitan University
