Tracks and Topics

This is an interdisciplinary conference welcoming contributions from all scientific disciplines and practical applications related to quality-of-life and well-being.  

Endowed Tracks

• “Takashi Inoguchi Endowed Track on Quality-of-Life and Well-being in East Asia”.
• “Mahar Mangahas Endowed Track for the Advancement of Quality-of-Life and Well-Being in Southeast Asia”.
• “The Daniel Shek-Wofoo Foundation Endowed Track for the Advancement of Adolescent Quality of Life Research”.
• “The Kenneth C. Land Endowed Track on the Advancement of Quality-of-Life and Well-Being of Children”.
• “The Elizabeth Eckermann Endowed Track on Gender and Quality-of-Life”.
• “The Ronald E. Anderson Endowed Track on the Alleviation of Human Suffering”.
• “The Rhonda G. Phillips Endowed Track for the Promotion of Community Development and Community Well-Being”.
• "The M. Joseph Sirgy Endowed Track on Well-Being and Policy"

Topics

Cultures, Concepts and the History of Well-being

Keywords: Understandings of well-being; Well-being across cultures; History of well-being; Religion, spirituality and well-being; Eudaimonia; Capabilities; Affect.

Well-being In and Across Regions

Keywords: NUTS 2; Urban/Rural; World Regions; Arctic; Indigenous; Global South; Transition economies.

Well-being in Different Populations

Keywords: Demography; Disabled; Elderly; Adolescents; Migrants; Refugees; The Poor; The Rich; Minorities; Diversity; Intersectionality; Horizontal Inequalities.

Methodological Issues in the Study of Quality-of-life, Happiness and Well-being

Keywords: Big data; Causality issues; Experiments; Composite indices; Database handling; Measurement of quality-of-life and well-being; Modelling; Psychometrics; Validity and reliability; Qualitative research; Quantitative methods; Surveys; Administrative data; Data matching; Well-being Inequality; Well-being Efficiency.

Disciplinary Approaches to Well-Being, Happiness and Quality-of-life

Keywords: Anthropology; Biology; Ecology; Economics; Education; Medicine; Neuroscience; Philosophy; Political science; Psychology; Sociology; Social work. 

Promoting Well-Being: Public Policy and Development

Keywords: Human development; Poverty alleviation; Sustainable development and sustainability; Social development; Policy evaluation; QALY; WELLBY.

Beyond GDP: New Understandings and Measures of Progress 

Keywords: Measuring the performance of societies; New understandings of progress in societies and how to measure it; Degrowth; Government initiatives to monitor and report well-being.

Social Capital and Well-being

Keywords: Volunteerism; Altruism; Philanthropy; Pro-social behavior; Trust in others and/or in institutions; Interpersonal relations.

Well-being, Environment and Sustainability

Keywords: Climate change; sustainability; climate crisis; natural disasters; biodiversity; eco-anxiety; pro-environmental behaviors; Future generations.

Labor and Workplace Well-being

Keywords: Job satisfaction; Work relations; Unemployment; Productivity; Engagement; Absenteism; Resignation; Quits; Self-employment, Entrepreneurship; Human resources; Labor Unions.

Ill-being

Keywords: Death of despair; Suicide; Loneliness; Stress; Anxiety; Pain; Depression; Mental illness; Suffering.

Wealth, Income and Quality-of-Life

Keywords: Poverty; Inequality; Consumption; Savings; Housing; Loss aversion.

Other Causes and Consequences of Well-being 

Keywords: Business and marketing; Education; Financial; Personal health; Housing and neighbourhood; Pharmacology and health care; Recreation and using of leisure time; Household and intimate relations; Traveling and tourism; Urban planning and policies; Information & Technology; Artificial Intelligence.

Special Sessions  

• Effects of spatial mobility on subjective well-being  (accepting submissions, see call for papers here)

• Empowering Social Capital through Pro-Social AI and NI-AI Complementarity (accepting submissions, see call for papers here)

• Well-being and Quality of Life at Local Level: Conceptual Approaches, Measurement, and Horizontal Inequalities (accepting submissions, see call for papers here)

• Legitimate public policies: promoting well-being and ecological sustainability (accepting submissions, see call for papers here)

• GNH.today Big Data, Machine Learning and Well-being Session (contact talitag@uj.ac.za)

• Citizen-led approaches to going Beyond GDP (accepting submissions, see call for papers here)

• Human Wellbeing and the Sustainability Agenda (accepting submissions, see call for papers here)

• Childhood Determinants and Well-being in Adulthood: A Cross-National Outcome-Wide (accepting submissions, see call for papers here) 

• Entrepreneurship and Well-being (accepting submissions, see call for papers here and contact cesare.riillo@statec.etat.lu) 

• Wellbeing Value for Money: Sharing methods, results, and challenges (accepting submissions, see call for papers here) 

Special Sessions Invitation Only: 

• EHERO/GLO Special Sessions  

• WISER Special Session  

• Founding Principles of Culture Based Development (CBD)

• Measuring well-being: the contribution of official statistic

• Meta-Science of Well-being Science

• Advancing Community Indicators Projects: Insights and Innovations  

• UN-Habitat Quality of Life Workshop

• Caring and sharing: the relationship between wellbeing and prosocial behaviour

• Measuring Progress STATEC  

• WISER special session: Wellbeing for all through urban blue and green