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The Wellbeing Research Centre is an interdisciplinary research centre dedicated to the economic, scientific, and philosophical study of wellbeing. The Centre is part of Harris Manchester College, at the University of Oxford, England.

Overview
The Wellbeing Research Centre was founded in 2019, and is currently based at Harris Manchester College, Mansfield Road, Oxford. The Centre brings together academics from economics, the social sciences, psychology, philosophy, and more. Among other subjects, the research team investigate how we can define and measure wellbeing, wellbeing in education, the philosophy of wellbeing, and the future of work and wellbeing.

The current director is Professor Jan-Emmanuel De Neve.

Research
Research at the Wellbeing Research Centre covers a range of topics, and has been published in leading academic journals. Publications have covered topics including: scalable wellbeing interventions, mental health, wellbeing approaches to policy decisions, workplace wellbeing, social class and life satisfaction, and wellbeing scales and measurements.

The Wellbeing Research Centre is an academic partner and contributor to the World Happiness Report, published by the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network.

The Centre has also partnered with the International Baccalaureate Organisation to develop a new wellbeing framework for education, and with the National League of Cities, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation, with whom the Centre worked to produce a report on measuring and improving wellbeing across American cities.

The Centre's research has been covered by many media platforms, including the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, the New York Times, Psychology Today, the Financial Times, BBC News, The Economist, CNN, and Al Jazeera.

History
The Centre was formally launched on 7 September 2019, at an official ceremony attended by the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford, Professor Louise Richardson.

The Wellbeing Research Centre was made possible by a founding donation from KSI Education.

People

 * Prof. Jan-Emmanuel De Neve (Director)
 * Prof. Andrew Oswald (Senior Research Fellow)