Mission statement

Our goals are to consider how people´s health and well-being can be defined, measured and
improved in ways that help policy-makers determine the best use of scarce resources, and to
investigate the determinants of well-being insofar as these are relevant to policy formulation.
The centre is a truly interdisciplinary one, bringing together people from such disciplines as:

• Economics
• Psychology
• Political science
• Geography
• Criminology
• Animal and plant sciences
• Public health
• Mental health.

Throughout its activities, the Centre aims to combine theoretical development with policy relevance. It is fully committed to building its research
portfolio, and becoming a leading international research centre in a major UK university.

CWiPP currently includes representatives from many departments and sections of the University. CWiPP provides a unique opportunity to bring together a wide range of disciplines concerned with this field. This has resulted in a number of substantive outputs. These include:

• The work of the ESRC funded workshop on valuing the intangible costs of crime that involved members from ScHARR, economics, psychology and criminology.
• Occasional workshops around specific topics – including analysing the BHPS data and developing a core set of well-being questions for primary research.
• Numerous research grants from government agencies and research councils including examining the social value of a QALY, two Defra projects, a Welsh Assembly grant, an EPSRC studentship and a recent MRC grant.