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Personal and community wellbeing – how can it work?

Karen Scott’s research into qualitative measures of wellbeing is focused on the intersections between culture, wellbeing and the environment. In a short video for The Network of Wellbeing she suggests that context is a hugely significant factor in personal and community wellbeing and argues that prescriptive recipes can support the status quo or disempower people if not used in a sensitive way. Karen is a research fellow at CRE.

published on: 22 February 2016