Castle Vale Community Well-being Project (CVCWP), funded by an EPSRC research grant, investigates ‘Systems Approaches to Well-being’. It brings together a unique team of investigators working within the fields of health, environment & design, social science and engineering to examine the relationship between personal well-being, community and the built environment. The team is concerned with experience of the individual and how it can be identified, defined and modelled from a systems perspective……more

Methods

The concept of well-being is a highly complex, multi-dimensional problem, explored within a wide range of interacting factors that relate to the environment, the population and external stimuli. The project aims to investigate the definition, analysis and modelling of citizen well-being within the experience of Castle Vale using a systems approach…..more

Announcing a two day international conference exploring the multidimensions of well-being (July 2011, Birmingham, UK). 

The pursuit of high levels of well-being is a key goal of society, yet well-being is a complex multidimensional issue, difficult to define and even more difficult to measure involving the ways that we interact with the environment, our daily activities, encounters our expectations. As such, it needs to be explored from a multidisciplinary perspective.

This two day conference is based on such an exploration aiming to bring practitioners and academics from a range of disciplines (e.g. health, architecture, housing) together, inviting them to consider the wider notions of well-being in relation to both theory and practice in ways that are relevant to a wide audience. Considering what is well-being and how can it be supported?

Watch this space or contact Dr Jill Collins (jill.collins@bcu.ac.uk) for more information.