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National well-being debate moves to Manchester

29 Mar 2011

On Monday 4 April (5-6.30pm) in the Alexander Theatre, Samuel Alexander Building

Coffee and tea will be served from 4.30pm onwards.
A drinks reception will follow the event from 6.30pm to 7.30pm.

People who live and work in and around Manchester are being encouraged to join the National Well-Being debate and have their say at an event on 4 April.

The University of Manchester has joined forces with the Office for National Statistics to hold  a panel-style discussion which will ask: "Are national statistics on subjective well-being valid and reliable?"

From April 2011, the Office of National Statistics (ONS) will be including subjective wellbeing questions on their Integrated Household Survey to capture what people think and feel about their own well-being.

Panel members include:

  • David Hulme, Director of the Brooks World Poverty Institute and Head of the Institute for Development Policy and Management at The University of Manchester. His recent books include Global Poverty and Just Give Money to the Poor.
      
  • Richard Wilkinson, Professor Emeritus of social epidemiology at the University of Nottingham, and Honorary Professor at University College London. He is best known for his 2009 book (with Kate Pickett) The Spirit Level.
       
  • Andrew Oswald, Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick. He is a member of the advisory board to the Office for National Statistics on measuring well-being.
      
  • Stephen Stansfeld, Professor of Psychiatry at Queen Mary, University of London. He is interested in psychosocial influences, especially depression, on coronary heart disease and has co-edited a book on psychosocial pathways to coronary heart disease. He also works as a consultant psychiatrist in psychiatric rehabilitation.
      
  • Stephen Hicks, Assistant Deputy Director of Measuring National Well-being, ONS.

Each panel member will speak about the Government’s new measures on national well-being, followed by questions gathered in advance from the audience members that Mark Easton will field.

It is part of a range of events organised by the ONS across the country to provide people with the opportunity to give their views on the things that matter most to them in life.

The Samuel Alexander Building is building number 67 on:

To attend:

To join the virtual debate or see what others are saying, visit: