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

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

Economics and subjectivities of wellbeing in rural Zambia

Using qualitative and quantitative methods both to generate and analyse data, this paper argues that...

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

This paper presents qualitative analysis of an RCT evaluating a programme aiming to delay marriage a...

The many faces of wellbeing

This paper reviews the field of wellbeing in policy contexts and the key concepts, methods, and issu...

‘The weight falls on my shoulders’: close relationships and women’s wellbeing in India

This paper explores ways in which women in village India challenge gendered norms of agency and rela...

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

This paper advocates the use of a relational approach to investigate the politics of knowledge in No...

Exploring the relational in relational wellbeing

This paper explores the different ways that relationships and the relational figure in the integrati...

Moral navigation and child fostering in Chiawa, Zambia

This article explores the movement of children between households in Zambia as a site of ‘moral navi...

Therapeutic culture and relational wellbeing

Wellbeing constitutes a key idiom through which therapeutic culture is dispersed in popular and poli...

Towards an interdisciplinary approach to wellbeing: life histories and Self-Determination Theory in rural Zambia

What are the prospects for a cross-cultural, interdisciplinary and methodologically plural approach ...