Oral Histories of Prominent Quality of Life Researchers

The conference explores the Beyond GDP agenda, the implications of wellbeing for policy as well as understanding and measurement.

Final deadline for abstracts is 20 May 2013 and for Receipt of payment 1 JUNE 2013.

Good quality contributions in Social Science as well as Economics are VERY welcome! The Oxford based Foundation for Knowledge Exchange (OFKE) will award a Prize of 300 Euros for the best contributed conference presentation if it feels appropriate. The decision will be announced on the website shortly after the conference.

Submission and Registration here.

The workshop will focus on how well alternative measures of wellbeing correlate and how they can be used in evaluations of public policy outcomes.

CIP Workshop Program

If you are interested in attending please write to Jennifer Scheppers  j.a.scheppers@reading.ac.uk

UNI-COM LATINAMERICAN CONFERENCE: “QUALITY OF LIFE IN LATIN AMERICAN”

Announcement: http://unicom.unlzsociales.com.ar/Es/index-es.html

Flyer: http://unicom.unlzsociales.com.ar/Es/UNi-COMConference2013.pdf

This conference will explore the long-term developments in quality of life in societies.

Both methodological issues – how to measure longitudinally progress in quality in life – as well as the results of this research – what got better and what got worse for whom – will be discussed.

Special attention will be given to the relationship between research and policy making.

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The purpose of this intensive summer school is to provide a thorough conceptual and technical introduction to some techniques of measuring multidimensional poverty with a strong emphasis on the Alkire Foster method. Participants will revise axiomatic poverty measures, and will learn about different techniques of multidimensional poverty measurement and which problems they are best suited to solve. The empirical motivation for measuring multidimensional poverty will be presented as well as the conceptual motivation, drawing on Sen’s Capability approach.

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