Director, Evidence & Insight @LR_Foundation World Risk Poll - Ex @WhatWorksWB @PolicyProfUK - Trustee @TheNCCH Leadership Fellow @StGeorgesHouse FRSA SaintsFC

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It turns out you can do quite a lot in ten years. An amazing round up of the more than 90 collaborations and the changes that are happening as a result. Thank you
In our final blog the Centre’s Executive Director, Nancy Hey (@Work_Life_You) reflects on the achievements & challenges of the last decade, & looks ahead at the work still to be done: whatworkswellbeing.org/blog/…
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⬆️ Pendle, 0.93 ⬆️ Brentwood, 0.76 ⬆️ Colchester, 0.74 ⬇️ Nuneaton and Bedworth, -0.95 ⬇️ Rushmoor, -0.96 ⬇️ Cambridge, -1.00 Some areas of the UK have seen substantial increases in #wellbeing over the past decade – but others have lagged behind.👇 worldwellbeingmovement.org/u…
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At the National Maritime Museum Greenwich today
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We’ve completed one of the world’s largest school-based mental health trials through @EBPUnit with @UCL. Read the results from Education for Wellbeing and find out how schools can build students’ mental health and wellbeing: orlo.uk/oF5Bn
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The existing resources really matter
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Replying to @littmath
My sense is that Deep Research seems to do reasonably well if it can find an existing resource summarizing the topic it's trying to understand (a Wikipedia article, survey article, blog post...) and follow the links from that resource.
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New real-time suicide data have been published by @OHID, taking us to October 2024. National suicide rate isn’t rising - important at time of economic stress for many. No rise in men, women or any age group. Although, needless to say, no rate is acceptable. #suicideprevention
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We are so excited that #BeeWell schools have been receiving their dashboards and reports today! 250 schools took part in #BeeWell in Autumn 2024, and we can’t wait to support them to explore and respond to what young people are telling us about their wellbeing.
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What is the meaning of life? What would you remember as bringing satisfaction, meaning, and purpose to your life? These are the modest questions that David Lagakos, Stelios Michalopoulos and I try to answer by "interviewing" over 1,400 Americans. We don't get to talk to them
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I’m not sure I can do this with good grace so I’m not going to. There are so many ironies here it’s hard to know where to start.
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Fantastic to see new impetus for #community focused research from @ESRC and delighted that @LocalTrust will be a founding partner of the new Centre for Collaboration in Community Connectedness localtrust.org.uk/news-and-s…
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There's still time to apply! We are launching an £11.5m investment with @SciTechgovuk to fund the development and management of a global evidence synthesis infrastructure. Apply now: orlo.uk/d7qFp Closes 12 Dec
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Happy to have contributed to this important piece of work for @OECD on selecting the shortest possible set of well-validated measures to capture the most policy-relevant aspects of affective experience. You can read the paper here - oecd.org/en/publications/mea…
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Life expectancy has continued to rise in the longest-lived countries— Record national life expectancies have been climbing for over a century. In 1840, Swedish women had a life expectancy of 46 years — the highest of any country recorded that year. By 1921, Australia held the record at 63 years. For most of the 20th century, Iceland, Norway, Australia, and Sweden competed for the top position before being overtaken by Japan in 1984. Hong Kong and Japan have held the records since then. These countries didn’t merely catch up; they’ve continued to push the limits higher. Japan added six more years to female life expectancy between 1984 and 2010, rising from 80 to 86 years. This remarkable rise has resulted from many advances in medicine, public health, and living standards — breaking many predictions of the “limits” of life expectancy. (This Daily Data Insight was written by @salonium.)
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In West Yorkshire, we're unlocking the power of creativity to help people live healthier, happier lives. Because 80% of things that help us stay healthy fall outside of healthcare. Find out how the Creative Health Hub is bringing culture and healthcare together: research.hud.ac.uk/institute…
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Great coverage @guardian of how creativity can help our wellbeing, highlighted by UCL Professor @Daisy_Fancourt advice on how hobbies enrich our life theguardian.com/lifeandstyle… Author & celebrity life coach, Martha Beck, on using creativity to tackle anxiety theguardian.com/lifeandstyle…
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Here's an alternative story to Dickens' three ghosts from A Christmas Carol: The 3 Bricklayers story about the power of purpose. A simple version goes that a person walked past a building project and asked three workers the same question: “What are you doing?” The first replied, “I’m laying bricks.” The second replied, “I’m building a wall.” And the third replied, “I’m creating a cathedral.”
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It’s a myth that suicide rates rise at Xmas, at least in England. Though there are plenty of lonely people. But the highest rate is at New Year. Alcohol & family conflict the likely causes. Our study @NCISH_UK pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2699…
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I believe such technical work is key to achieving our mission — making data easier for everyone to access and use. But it is extremely hard to find funding for technical work. If you’d like to support us, we would very much appreciate if you support our non-profit work: ourworldindata.org/donate
We recently made it even easier to reuse the data we provide, with two new features — upgraded data downloads & an API. We’ve heard how helpful these are from many users — e.g., data scientists & researchers have told us how the API makes their workflows more efficient and reproducible.
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This a very fixable flaw and would improve efficacy of a massive range of policies across different departments
How do you have a children’s wellbeing bill without any attempt to measure their wellbeing across the country? There is a lot to welcome in the Bill but this gap is a fundamental flaw.
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How do you have a children’s wellbeing bill without any attempt to measure their wellbeing across the country? There is a lot to welcome in the Bill but this gap is a fundamental flaw.
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National wellbeing measurement is the missing piece from the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill. Read our joint response to the Bill from #BeeWell, @_TheFEA, @ProBonoEcon and @childrensociety. 👉 beewellprogramme.org/the-chi…
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We published our #ActiveLives Children & Young People survey - the most comprehensive insight into the activity levels of ages 5-16 - which found that long-term upward trends since the survey started are positive, but persistent inequalities continue. #2024InReview 📅
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