ISQOLS News

We are pleased to announce the establishment of the Division of Positive Psychology operating under the Malaysian Psychological Association (PSIMA). 

This division is a platform for stakeholders to understand the development of positive psychology in Malaysia. Our visions are to introduce and promote positive psychology to the country and communities and also to provide continuing professional development for members.

We are honored to invite you to attend the Launching Ceremony of the Division of Positive Psychology. 

The details of the ceremony are as follow:

Date: 09 Oct 2021 (Sat)

Time: 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. (Malaysia time)

Platform: Facebook live (https://www.facebook.com/mydivpospsych) 

Opening Speech by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Wan Shahrazad Wan Sulaiman, President of Malaysian Psychological Association (PSIMA)

Forum "The Future of Positive Psychology in Malaysia" by Prof. Dr. Intan Hashimah Mohd Hashim and Prof. Dr. Deborah Hall.

Attached are the detail and itinerary of the launching ceremony for your perusal. Kindly extend the invitation to your colleagues, students, and friends. We look forward to seeing you.  

Please feel free to contact us should you have any inquiries about the division. We also look forward to collaborating with your association to promote Positive Psychology.

Thank you.

Regards,

Chee-Seng TAN, Ph.D.

Head

Division of Positive Psychology

Malaysian Psychological Association (PSIMA)

Email: positivepsychology.div@psima.org.my

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The Happy Planet Index 2021 Online Launch Event 

(October 25th - 9 AM - 10 AM Eastern Time)

The Happy Planet Index measures what matters: sustainable wellbeing for all.It tells us how well nations are doing at achieving long, happy, sustainable lives. 

Join WEAll (the Wellbeing Economy Alliance) for the launch of the latest rankings of the Happy Planet Index!

Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0ud-mrqDguHNUYstvh8w7K38AQ0ypn67-l

Congrats to ISQOLS member, Shoirakhon Nurdinova, on winning "The best project among women-scientists" from International Fund for supporting science and education/Ziyo Forum. This award is given for her research project on the happiness of working/nonworking women:

https://ziyoforum.uz/fond-yangiliklari/post/ziyolilar-kitobining-taqdimoti

Shoirakhon Nurdinova

Senior Lecturer/Namangan State University

Namangan Uzbekistan 160136

READ HERE: GNH index.pdf

New Zealand government recognises the benefit of reporting the GNH index.

The Gross National Happiness.Today index developed by Stephanie Rossouw (Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand ) and Talita Greyling (University of Johannesburg, South Africa) uses Big Data in the form of Twitter to measure New Zealanders' evaluative mood. The scale of the happiness scores is between 0 (unhappy) and 10 (happy), with 5 being neutral, thus neither happy nor unhappy. Additionally, each tweet's underpinning emotions are analysed. Currently, a distinction is made between eight emotions: sadness, surprise, disgust, anticipation, fear, anger, trust, and joy.

On Monday 6 September, Statistics New Zealand started reporting the GNH as an official indicator, representing a real-time measure for subjective well-being, in the NZ Statistic COVID-19 data portal.

 Please see the link below.

https://www.stats.govt.nz/experimental/covid-19-data-portal?tab=Social&category=Life%20satisfaction&indicator=Gross%20national%20happiness

 

Asked about the accuracy of the GNH, Stephanie said, "Once again, the GNH never ceases to amaze me The GNH captures the events of the past month accurately".

 

9 August – negative impact of the major power cut experienced in the North Island

17 August – level 4 lockdown for NZ

30 August – Auckland to remain in level 4 lockdown for two more weeks starting 31 August

3 September – lone terrorist attack in a Countdown grocery store

 

Congrats to the editorial team for our journal!

@SpringerSocSci

announced that the IF for Applied Research in Quality of Life is 3.078 – ranking 20/110 in Social Sciences, interdisciplinary (Q1)! #qualityoflife Learn more https://springer.com/journal/11482

Measuring Progress: Online Forum on Well-Being
June 16, June 28, June 29

Measuring Progress - Statistics Portal // Luxembourg - STATEC Research (public.lu)

This international event will bring together leading thinkers to discuss the quest for better lives. Economists traditionally advocated economic growth as the foremost policy goal, but now even economists often challenge this view. How should we measure progress? The discussion remains open, indeed flourishes, with more contributors than ever.

The event contributes broadly to this discussion. Preeminent authors from the well-being and quality-of-life fields will give six talks over three days. Talks will focus on their current research and include both the broader background and policy implications. At the end of each session, time will be reserved for questions and answers.

SCHEDULE

June 16, Wednesday: 17:00 CET, 11:00 AM Eastern
Stefano Bartolini, University of Siena - Abstract
Richard Easterlin, University of Southern California - Abstract
Invitation and registration

June 28, Monday: 17:00 CET, 11:00 AM Eastern
Andrew Oswald, University of Warwick - Abstract
Carol Graham, Brookings Institution and University of Maryland - Abstract
Invitation and registration

June 29, Tuesday: 17:00 CET, 11:00 AM Eastern
Ruut Veenhoven, Erasmus University Rotterdam - Abstract
John de Graaf, author, filmmaker, speaker - Abstract
Invitation and registration

REGISTRATION

Please send an email to infoSWB2020@statec.etat.lu to indicate you are interested in attending. You will then be added to the event mailing list, which will be used to convey the most up to date information and registration links.

MEASURING PROGRESS STATEC Seminar Series

Beginning in September, STATEC Research will host a new seminar series continuing the discussions from the June event. Presentations will take place virtually approximately every two weeks. Talks will focus on quality-of-life research generally but will also discuss both the broader background and policy implications.

QUESTIONS

We will periodically update this page with additional details. You may also contact us here with questions: infoSWB2020@statec.etat.lu

ORGANIZERS

Measuring Progress: Online Forum on Well-Being is organized by STATEC Research, part of the National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies of Luxembourg (STATEC), and supported by the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies.

Measuring Progress - Statistics Portal // Luxembourg - STATEC Research (public.lu)

The Centre for the Study of Living Standards (Canada) and The Productivity Institute (United Kingdom) are inviting proposals for papers on the topic “Productivity and Well-Being – Measurement and Explanations.” Accepted papers, which should represent new and original work, will be published in a theme issue of the International Productivity Monitor, now the joint flagship publication of both organizations. The expected publication date is the Spring of 2022. A virtual authors’ workshop with first drafts of papers will be held in November 2021. The deadline for receipt of proposals for papers is July 15, 2021. The call for paper providing the motivation for the project and the issues to be addressed is posted at http://www.csls.ca/call-for-papers.pdf

If you have any questions, please contact Andrew Sharpe at andrew.sharpe@csls,ca

Best Regards,

Andrew Sharpe and Bart van Ark

Conferences/workshops

The Doctoral School of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Oradea, and Erasmus University Rotterdam invites you to participate on Thursday 27th May 2021 at 17.30 CET in the workshop World Database of Happiness: What it is and how to use

Presenter: Prof. dr. Ruut Veenhoven, Emeritus professor of social conditions for human happiness, Erasmus University Rotterdam The workshop will be organized within the International Online Conference of Doctoral and Post-doctoral Students in Social Sciences, Oradea, 27-28th May 2021 (https://sites.google.com/view/conferintasds2021).

 

To attend the workshop please register here:

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcvde6rqjwoGdUUEN0PZDvolNKsK9yXb38o.

The number of places is limited!

 

Sergiu Baltatescu

Dr. habil., Professor of Sociology

University of Oradea, Romania

www.sergiubaltatescu.info

 

Second International Conference on Children’s Well-being 2021 VIRTUAL CONFERENCE-Extension of Abstracts submission to 31 Μay 2021 | childrenwelfaresm.com

http://www.childrenwelfaresm.com/en/events-ανακοινώσεις/second-international-conference-children’s-well-being-2021-virtual-conference

Second International Conference on Children’s Well-being 2021 VIRTUAL CONFERENCE-Extension of Abstracts submission to 31 Μay 2021 | childrenwelfaresm.com Due to several kind requests, we have decided to extend deadline for Abstracts submission. The new deadline is: 31 May 2021 CHILDREN’S WELL-BEING AND PERSPECTIVES ON ITS ENHANCEMENT Second International Conference on Children’s Well-being 2021 VIRTUAL CONFERENCE 9-11 July 2021   Call for  Abstracts   www.childrenwelfaresm.com

My kindest regards,

Eirini

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Dr. Eirini Leriou

Recent interview: isqols.org/Eirini-Leriou/

Recent paper: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs12187-020-09770-4       

Project: http://www.childrenwelfaresm.com/el 

Policies for Better Lives:
Strategies for life satisfaction and human wellbeing

The McGill Institute for Health and Social Policy (IHSP) is pleased to announce its 2021 annual conference “Policies for Better Lives: Strategies for life satisfaction and human wellbeing”. This on-line conference will take place in 2-hour sessions each Friday in May 2021 and features national and international expert panels, discussion and workshops. Panelists and participants are invited from research, policy and practitioner communities to share and discuss potential and current best practice in bringing evidence on life satisfaction to policy. Together they will evaluate bold candidate policy recommendations, assess their current feasibility, and identify key strategies for working across disciplines, jurisdictions and sectors to improve the experienced quality of life.  Please see the programme for the innovative structure of this sequence of discussions.  In addition, subjective wellbeing researchers in the ISQOLS community are invited to submit short policy proposal videos following the guidelines at https://wellbeing.research.mcgill.ca/BetterLives2021/submissions

The Program and free registration are available at https://wellbeing.research.mcgill.ca/BetterLives2021

Contact admincoord.ihsp@mcgill.ca or Chris.Barrington-Leigh@McGill.ca with any questions.

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