Beyond the grumpy rich man and the happy peasant: mixed methods and the impact of food security on subjective dimensions of wellbeing in India

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This paper responds to the recent advocacy of subjective wellbeing in policy evaluation with an investigation of food security in...

Qualitative perspectives on the impact evaluation of girls’ empowerment in Bangladesh

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This paper presents qualitative analysis of an RCT evaluating a programme aiming to delay marriage and empower adolescent girls in...

The many faces of wellbeing

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This paper reviews the field of wellbeing in policy contexts and the key concepts, methods, and issues that structure its...

A space for unlearning? A relational perspective on North-South development research

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This paper advocates the use of a relational approach to investigate the politics of knowledge in North-South research partnerships.

Wellbeing and Quality of Life Assessment

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This book provides practical guidance for integrating wellbeing or quality of life in social or development policy and practice. Human...

The ethical imperative of qualitative methods: developing measures of subjective dimensions of wellbeing in Zambia and India

Research Paper

Well-being advocates state that it provides a more holistic, humanistic focus for public policy. Paradoxically, however, well-being debates tend to...

Inner wellbeing: concept and validation of a new approach to subjective perceptions of wellbeing—India

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This paper describes an important stage on our journey to Relational wellbeing: the conceptual development of a multi-domain, psychosocial model...