Draft:Wellbeing Research Centre

The Wellbeing Research Centre is a research institute at the University of Oxford in Oxford, England. It was founded in September 2019 and focuses on the study of wellbeing. It is based within Harris Manchester College and is associated with the Saïd Business School in the Social Sciences Division of the University of Oxford.

Overview
The Wellbeing Research Centre was founded in September 2019 and is led by Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, a Professor of Economics and Behavioural Science at the Saïd Business School  and an editor of the World Happiness Report. The centre draws researchers from various backgrounds, including economics, behavioural science, psychology, and sociology. The Senior Research Fellow is Andrew Oswald. Findings made by the group have been published in journals including Management Science, PNAS and Psychological Science.

The Wellbeing Research Centre is a founding member of the World Wellbeing Movement, an organisation lobbying leaders in business and public policy to prioritise wellbeing in their decision-making.

From 2024, the Centre is the publisher of the World Happiness Report, an annual open access publication which assesses the global state of happiness through ranking the world's 'happiest' countries, as well as sharing new insights from the field of wellbeing science. Research data is provided by polling company Gallup, through its Gallup World Poll.

Conference
The Wellbeing Research Centre hosted its inaugural Wellbeing Research & Policy Conference in July 2022, at Worcester College, Oxford. The conference was attended by academics, policy makers and business leaders over the course of three days. Speakers included Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman, Icelandic Prime Minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir, former UK Cabinet Secretary Lord Gus O’Donnell, and labour economist Lord Richard Layard.