Researching Happy

SUPPORT THE SHOW: researchinghappy.locals.com   This week Matt chats with Annalise Roache, Co-President of the NZ Association of Positive Psychology and a PhD Candidate at AUT Auckland. We walk through Annalise’s PhD work, focused on Lay Perspectives of wellbeing - put simply - Annalise asked over 1000 New Zealanders what wellbeing means to them.  After an intense process of thematic analysis, Ann...

SUPPORT the show: researchinghappy.locals.com This week I am joined by Professor Paul Wong, Professor Emeritus of Trent University and Trinity Western University.  At 86 years young, he has published eight books and 300+ journal articles and chapters; he is one of the most cited psychologists in areas related to existential positive psychology.  This was a great conversation, and raises lots of in...

Support the show: researchinghappy.locals.com Trying something different this week! Professor Gad Saad, Professor of Marketing at Concordia University has just released a book on 8 secrets of the good life. Love him or Hate him, this will be one of the best selling happiness books of all time. On a 15 hour flight home from the IPPA World Congress in Vancouver, Matt reads and reviews the book, find...

Coming to you LIVE from Vancouver BC. Hear some thoughts on the past 4 days of the International Positive Psychology Association (IPPA) World Congress. Attached at the end are two of the presentations Matt gave at the conference. You can watch the slides in Spotify or on Youtube Support the show at: researchinghappy.locals.com

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SUPPORT THE SHOW:  researchinghappy.locals.com   Dr Brendan Case joins the show this week. Brendan is the Associate Director of Research at the Human Flourishing Program at Harvard University. He works to develop integrative research strategies that draw together explorations of human flourishing from across the social sciences and humanities. Brendan introduces us to the field of Theology and its...

SUPPORT THE SHOW: researchinghappy.locals.com   This week we are joined by Professor Craig Hassed OAM from Monash University and the Centre for Consciousness and Contemplative Studies. Hear Dr Hassed’s incredible experience on the topic of mindfulness, having introduced mindfulness into the Monash University medical program since 1992.  We discuss the differences between informal and formal mindfu...

Support the show at researchinghappy.locals.com This week’s guest is Nancy Hey, Executive Director of the ‘What Works Wellbeing’ centre in the UK, an independent body for wellbeing evidence, policy and practice. They collect well-being data, analyse it, and aim to communicate it to the public and make it consistent, robust, usable and accessible. Nancy talks about the process for creating a centre...

Support the show at: researchinghappy.locals.com   Today I sit down with a great friend and colleague Dr Kathina Ali. Kathina is a clinical psychologist and researcher, passionate about understanding and breaking down the barriers towards seeking professional help which is such an important (but difficult) step for someone experiencing serious mental illness.  We talk about her work in Eating Diso...

Support the show at: https://researchinghappy.locals.com/ This week I chat with Associate Professor Chiara Ruini from the University of Bologna. Along with her colleagues, Chiara has been focused on the development and evaluation of Wellbeing Therapy, a clinical approach to supplement traditional therapies with positive psychological interventions with the aim of preventing relapse. We talk Italy,...

Support the show and join the Researching Happy community: https://researchinghappy.locals.com This week I chat with Dr Eri Mountbatten-O’Malley, Senior Lecturer in Education (Policy) at Bath Spa University. We discuss a topic that has been largely overlooked, the poor use of language in positive psychology. Namely, Eri has focused is PhD research on the topic of Flourishing, a term that has the r...

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This week’s guest is Dr Meike Bartels, Professor in genetics and wellbeing, and president of IPPA - the International Positive Psychology Association. Meike talks a bit about her background in the study of genetics as it relates to wellbeing, and clears up some of the misinterpretations of the relationship between the two. She talks about what it was like coming from the field of genetics which de...

This week I chat with Dr Mark Fabian, Associate Professor at the University of Warwick. We have a in-depth conversation on all things wellbeing. Topics covered include the challenges of multi-disciplinary research, Mark's efforts to pull together the academic literature from psychology, philosophy, economics and public policy. We hear Mark's clear picture for what he would like to see in t...

This week on Researching Happy I talk to Dr Addie Wootten, CEO of Smiling Mind, a mindfulness-based App. Addie talks about the power of mindfulness as an intervention for managing mental illness, but also as a strategy for prevention and maintaining mental health. We discuss how strongly research backs the effectiveness of mindfulness across different cohorts, and where Addie would like to see mor...

This week on the show I talk to Dr Stephen Carbone, CEO of Prevention United. Stephen brings the nuance that the mental health and wellbeing sector sorely needs, (1) more funding is needed for mental health care services and (2) we need to do much more in terms of mental illness prevention and promotion of wellbeing. Somehow these two points are confused and presented as competing interests. At th...

In this episode of Researching Happy, I talk to Dr Fallon Goodman, Assistant Professor at George Washington University. Fallon tells us about her work in the area of social anxiety, and the role that a sense purpose can play for those affected. She details how social anxiety is common, treatable, overlooked, underfunded, and a major barrier to happiness. Fallon recounts how some of her work as a y...

In Episode 2 of Researching Happy, I talk to Joep Van Agteren, a friend, colleague, and co-lead of the Be Well Co… Joep talks us through his journey in the world of happiness research, from his beginnings in behavioural change psychology, through to starting a business and leading a team of people in developing, researching and rolling out wellbeing programs to thousandss of people across various...

Support the show and join the conversation at ResearchingHappy.locals.com. Matt sits down with Emeritus Professor Corey Keyes, to discuss Corey’s foundational work in the field of positive psychology, particularly on the concepts of flourishing and languishing. Corey talks about languishing as a form of invisibility, it's prevalence in society, and how it poses a risk factor for mental and physica...

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