The many faces of wellbeing
Research Paper
This paper reviews the field of wellbeing in policy contexts and the key concepts, methods, and issues that structure its...
Conceptualising RWB
Exploring the thinking behind relational wellbeing
Materials that explain the conceptual roots of RWB, situate RWB in the broader wellbeing field, and locate it within other approaches to international development.
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Relationships power wellbeing: RWB Collab on the Flourishing Education podcast
Podcast
In conversation with Fabienne Vailes on her Flourishing Education podcast, Sarah White and Shreya Jha describe what inspired them to...
Exploring the relational in relational wellbeing
Research Paper
This paper explores the different ways that relationships and the relational figure in the integrative approach, relational wellbeing (RWB). These...
Therapeutic culture and relational wellbeing
Research Paper
Wellbeing constitutes a key idiom through which therapeutic culture is dispersed in popular and policy discourse. Wellbeing is, however, a...
Towards an interdisciplinary approach to wellbeing: life histories and Self-Determination Theory in rural Zambia
Research Paper
What are the prospects for a cross-cultural, interdisciplinary and methodologically plural approach to wellbeing? This question is addressed using Self-Determination...
Moralities of wellbeing
Research Paper
This paper is a lightly edited transcript of Sarah's Inaugural Professorial Lecture on April 25, 2018. It draws on primary...
Relational wellbeing: re-centring the politics of happiness, policy and the self
Research Paper
The ubiquity of references to happiness and wellbeing indicates widespread anxiety that all may not be well, reflecting the erosion...
Analysing wellbeing: a framework for development policy and practice
Research Paper
This paper is a piece of advocacy for the use of wellbeing analysis in social and development policy and practice,...
Wellbeing, livelihoods and resources in social practice
Research Paper
This paper explores the ways a concept of 'resources' can contribute to our understanding of wellbeing. The major argument is...
Relational wellbeing: re-centring the Politics of Happiness
Video
Sarah gives a brief introduction to her paper ‘Relational wellbeing: re-centring the politics of happiness, policy and the self’, published...