Thriving not just surviving - a participatory study of wellbeing in financial hardship

Tue 2 November 2021

Online

Dr Anna Alexandrova and Dr Mark Fabian, and Abby Meadows will describe how they organised coproduction, what they learned about thriving under financial hardship, and how organisations can make people’s lived experience central to their work.

This event will be of particular interest to people working in the charity and public policy sectors with a particular interest in wellbeing and poverty.

Book your place: https://www.bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk/events/thriving/

Read more about the project: https://www.bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk/research/research-projects/Many-Dimensions-of-Well-being/

Speakers

Dr Anna Alexandrova is a Reader in Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge, a Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge, and the principal investigator for the ‘Expertise Under Pressure’ group at CRASSH.

Dr Mark Fabian is a welfare economist working on the Measuring Wellbeing project at the Bennett Institute for Public Policy. His research focuses on the epistemology and ethics of wellbeing metrics, especially how policymakers and citizens understand wellbeing, its measurement, and the legitimacy of wellbeing policy interventions.

Abby Meadows works at Turn2Us, a UK based charity fighting poverty, as their Co-production and Participation officer. She also guest lecturers in humanitarian response and the contemporary European refugee crisis at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.

Jennifer Wallace is a public policy analyst and writer. She has held a range of positions in the public and voluntary sector and is currently Director at Carnegie UK Trust, where she applies a wellbeing approach to government policy and promotes wellbeing as a narrative for social change.

Cost: Free - Booking required