Working on Wellbeing

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We are all Working on our Wellbeing daily, but not everyone has access to the latest cutting-edge research into the science of wellbeing … until now. From our home at the World Wellbeing Movement, within the University of Oxford, we have created the Working on Wellbeing podcast so that you can be a fly on the wall during our conversations with the world’s leading wellbeing experts.
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Karen Guggenheim on cultivating happiness (At the World Happiness Summit)

Apr 17 2024 46 mins  
CONTENT WARNING:  Before you listen to this episode, please be aware that parts of this conversation cover the topics of grief and bereavement. If you would prefer not to listen to a conversation of this nature, please turn off this episode and look after yourself. Help and support is available from the links below. BBC Action Line | Mind | Samaritans  &nbs

Dimitra Manis on leading with purpose

Mar 20 2024 41 mins  
Welcome to the final episode of our second podcast series, for which we are thrilled to welcome Dimitra Manis, the Chief Purpose Officer of S&P Global. Dimitra’s work advances workplace wellbeing both internally at S&P Global, and across the globe. In this episode, Dimitra shares how S&P’s people and purpose first culture drives their business success, and how

Rachel Fellowes on sustainable performance in the workplace

Mar 06 2024 58 mins  
CONTENT WARNING:   Before you listen to this episode, you should know that it covers some important but upsetting themes of suicide and pregnancy loss. If you, or someone you know, has been affected by the topics raised in this conversation, help and support is available from the links below. And, if you feel like the topics mentioned are something you can’t listen

Tracey Crouch MP on her role as the world’s first Minister for Loneliness

Feb 21 2024 45 mins  
CONTENT WARNING:   Before you listen to this episode, please be aware that segments of the discussion include personal stories about mental health challenges and breast cancer. If you would prefer not to listen to a conversation of this nature, please turn off this episode and look after yourself. Help and support is available from the links below.   M

Prof Robert Waldinger on the world’s longest study on happiness

Feb 07 2024 45 mins  
What makes us happy?  Today’s guest, Prof Robert Waldinger, is the current Director of a study that set out to answer this exact question.   That study is the Harvard Study of Adult Development, which has followed the same individuals for over 80 years in an attempt to find out what keeps people healthy and happy. Beginning in 1938, this is one of the lon

Kim Leadbeater MP on early intervention wellbeing policies

Jan 24 2024 37 mins  
CONTENT WARNING:   Before you listen to this episode, please be aware that the first part of this conversation covers the topic of grief and bereavement. If you would prefer not to listen to a conversation of this nature, please either skip forward to 07:45 or turn off this episode and look after yourself. Help and support is available from the links below. &nbs

Lord Gus O’Donnell on the wellbeing policy landscape

Jan 10 2024 39 mins  
When we think about a country’s government, many of us are likely to conjure up images in our mind of our country’s Prime Minister, Taoiseach, or President ... or perhaps a senior Minister who is in the public eye a lot. But we shouldn’t overlook the large number of people who play an integral role in supporting these figureheads. In the UK, more than half a million people wo

Dr Diana Han on employee wellbeing in large organisations

Dec 13 2023 61 mins  
In this week’s episode, host Sarah Cunningham chats to guest Dr Diana Han, Unilever’s Chief Health & Wellbeing Officer. Diana helps lead a global team of well over 100,000 employees, all with their own unique wellbeing needs.    She explains how she works to prioritise employee wellbeing at such a large scale and, importantly, reflects on the methods she

Prof Ethan Kross on Chatter: the voice in our head and how to harness it

Nov 29 2023 48 mins  
Our inner voice is a powerful tool, but it can be detrimental to our wellbeing when we find ourselves stuck in negative loops of thought.Today’s guest is one of the world’s leading experts on controlling the conscious mind. Psychologist and neuroscientist Prof Ethan Kross has dubbed these negative thought loops as ‘Chatter’, and his research suggests that getting lost in Ch

Lord Richard Layard on putting wellbeing top of the policy agenda

Jun 28 2023 42 mins  
Described as the ‘happiness tsar’, Lord Richard Layard knows a thing or two about the science of wellbeing: he literally wrote the book on it.He is a labour economist based within the London School of Economics and Political Science and a co-founder of both Action for Happiness and the World Wellbeing Movement. His long-standing research career – in which he has devoted much