Well-being and Place – Int’l Conference, Durham
Well-being and Place: an International Conference
7th -9th April 2009, Durham University, United Kingdom
*Places are still available at this conference- registration deadline extended to 28th February 2009*
Keynote speakers
Andrew Simms, Policy Director, New Economics Foundation
Professor Tim Blackman, Director, Wolfson Research Institute, Durham University
Overview
Over the last ten years the targets of policy have expanded beyond the purely material and economic to embrace more subjective dimensions of human flourishing. Amongst a range of terms that have entered policy debates, ‘well-being’ has perhaps gained the greatest currency, incorporating both physical and cognitive elements and applied across individual and collective scales of analysis. It is clear that the definition, experience and determinants of well-being will vary in different kinds of places. However, the complex ways in which place and well-being interact remain relatively under-researched and under-theorised. This conference therefore draws together research that explicitly links well-being and place and includes research from a range of different scales of analysis, across different substantive domains and from both policy-linked and more explorative approaches.
Programme
The conference will feature over 70 papers from the academic and policy communities that focus on the relationship between well-being and place, broadly defined including:
· Home and well-being
· Theory, methods and ethics of well-being
· Transitions: well-being across this life course and the next
· Therapeutic places and unhealthy spaces
· Well-being in motion: flows, networks, relations
· Healthy environments: housing, urban design and regeneration
· Well-being, policy and regional development
More details about the programme and registration are available on the conference website (www.geography.dur.ac.uk/conf/wellbeingandplace) or please contact Sara Fuller (s.k.fuller@durham.ac.uk) for further details.
The conference is organised and hosted by the Centre for the Study of Cities & Regions and the Social Wellbeing and Spatial Justice research cluster of the Department of Geography at Durham University, in collaboration with the University’s Wolfson Research Institute.