News & Events
Note that from 2021 onward I am no longer updating this page (though my work continues to be covered by major news outlets including front page stories in the Times and Guardian)
This page documents media and blog coverage of my research as well as my presentations, interviews, new publications and working papers and any other relevant notable events from September 2015 onwards.
Please also see:
Impact for older media/press reactions to my work dating back to 2006: this will take you into my Warwick page.
Publications for a full list of my working papers, published work, work in progress and non-technical summaries of my work.
November 2020
External presentations of Self-awareness and Dishonesty:
Purdue University, 6th November.
Leicester Business School, 18th November.
October 2020
New working paper: Self-awareness and Dishonesty,Warwick Economics Research Papers 1307, 2020, with Ceren Bengu Cibik.
Revised version of a working paper: Cultural Identity and Social Capital in Italy, IZA DP 13783, 2020, with Michela Redoano, Federica Liberini, Ben Lockwood, Emanuele Bracco & Francesco Porcelli (updated version of Warwick Economics Research Papers 1283).
August 2020
Revised version of a working paper: Small Talk and Theory of Mind in Strategic Decision-Making, CAGE WP 409, 2020, with Neha Bose.
July 2020
New working papers:
The Effects of Social Capital on Government Performance and Turnover: Theory and Evidence from Italian Municipalities, Warwick Economics Research Papers 1284, 2020, with Ben Lockwood, Francesco Porcelli, Michela Redoano, Emanuele Bracco & Federica Liberini.
Cultural Identity and Social Capital in Italy, Warwick Economics Research Papers 1283, 2020, with Ben Lockwood, Francesco Porcelli, Michela Redoano, Emanuele Bracco & Federica Liberini.
June 2020
New working paper: Climate Change and Diet, IZA DP 13426, 2020, with Neha Bose & Thomas Hills.
May 2020
I delivered a keynote address at the Textual Analysis Workshop at the Centre for Behavioural and Experimental Social Science at the University of East Anglia on the topic Using Language in Behavioural Science. The talk is on YouTube.
New working paper: Evaluating the Sunk Cost Effect, CAGE WP 475, 2020, with David Ronayne and Anthony Tuckwell.
I was interviewed on the YouTube channel Data Driven on the topic of Wellbeing in Crisis and Beyond: How can Data Science and Behavioural Science help us Understand What Makes us Happy? with over 1400 views.
April 2020
I have become one of the academic leads for the University of Warwick's global research priority Behaviour, Brain and Society.
February 2020
I am now an affiliated researcher in the Behavioural Data Science research programme at the Alan Turing Institute based at the British Library in London, one of the world's leading centres for research in data science.
January 2020
Media citations for my work on "Historical Happiness":
Wire, 30th January
Actualite Houssenia Writing, 30th January
Aeon, 29th January
Actualite Houssenia Writing, 23rd January
DailyHunt, 22nd January
Fast Company, 18th January
AlterNet, 18th January
Media citations for my work on "Happiness & Productivity":
Entrepreneur, 30th January
Prince George Citizen, 30th January
Troy Media, 25th January
Hospitality Net, 10th January
True Viral News, 10th January
Bdaily, 9th January
Manage It, 8th January
December 2019
Media citations for my work on "Happiness & Productivity":
Boursorama, 6th December (in French)
November 2019
Media citations for my work on "Happiness & Productivity":
Projeto Draft, 29th November (in Spanish)
Creative Review, 23rd November
Media citations for my work on "Historical Happiness":
BBC Science Focus Magazine, 26th November
Science Focus, 19th November
Cotswold Life, 17th November
Forbes 6th November
Forbes 8th November
Cumberland & Westmorland Herald 6th November
Hxen.com 2nd November
Sun 3rd November
Sustainable Brands 2nd November
October 2019
Publication: "Historical analysis of national subjective wellbeing using millions of digitized books" by Thomas Hills, Eugenio Proto, Daniel Sgroi and Chanuki Seresinhe, in Nature Human Behaviour, 14 October 2019.
A summary of the work in our own words in The Conversation - What makes us happy? We analysed 200 years of written text to find the answer.
The historical happiness paper was covered on TV news shows in the UK (BBC2) and Italy (RAI.IT) on the popular UK TV show "Have I got news for you".
The work also received a very large amount of newspaper and online media coverage including a front page of the Times (15 October), and in many other major national newspapers and media outlets. There is a full list below, but here is a sample of some of the very first coverage in the press:
There was also coverage and interviews on numerous national and local radio stations including:
BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 5
BBC World Service
BBC Derby
BBC Berkshire
BBC Leicester
BBC Coventry and Warwickshire
BBC Tees
BBC Scotland
BBC Orkney
BBC Highlands and Islands
BBC Shetland
BBC Kent
Classic FM
Talk Radio (Independent Republic of Mike Graham)
Talk Radio (Overnights with Martin Kellner)
Radio 24
DLF Nova (Germany)
KL.FM 96.7
Panda Radio
Pirate FM,
Smooth Radio
Spire FM
Spirit FM
Wessex FM
Here is a full list of the online and newspaper coverage for October:
American Spectator 25th October
Archynewsy 19th October
Big Picture 22nd October
Business Mayor 21st October
Cato Institute 25th October
Conservative Home 31st October
Economist 19th October
Express 21st October
Express and Star 20th October
Flowee 23rd October
Focus.it 19th October
Glasgow Herald 20th October
GQ Italia 23rd October
The Guardian 19th October
Hardware Upgrade 21st October
JDSupra 30th October
Mail on Sunday 20th October
Money Week 28th October
Naked Scientists 26th October
Nexo Jornal 29th October
NotizieOra.it 29th October
People Management 30th October
Smithsonian 19th October
Spbvedomosti.ru 25th October
Sunday Times 20th October
This Day 30th October
This is Money 20th October
Us Posts 21st October
Waitrose Weekend 25th October
Washington Times 21st October
World Economic Forum 30th October
Yahoo 19th October
ABC, 18th October.
About Manchester, 16th October.
Aleteia, 17th October.
Alternet, 17th October.
Avvenire.it, 15th October.
Business Mayor, 15th October.
Business Mayor, 16th October.
Capital, 16th October.
The Conversation, 16th October
Daily Express, 15th October
Daily Mail, 15th October
Daily Mail, 17th October (print)
Daily Mail, 17th October
Daily Telegraph, 16th October
Dzwww.com, 18th October
Eagle Radio, 16th October
Época Negócios, 18th October
ForeignAffairs, 17th October
Galileonet.it, 18th October
Global Advisors, 15th October
Gold, 16th October
The Guardian, 15th October
Have I Got News For You (BBC TV), 18th October
Heart, 16th October
Hipertexual, 15th October
The i, 15th October
Il Fatto Quotidiano, 15th October
The Independent, 15th October
Indicator, 18th October
KrankenPflege, Journal 15th October
LBC, 16th October
Lenta.ua, 18th October
Medical Xpress, 15th October
Minster FM, 16th October
MIT Technology Review, 15th October
Mix 96, 16th October
MSN, 15th October
News 24, 15th October
Newscabal, 15th October
Newsweek, 15th October
Quartz, 15th October
ScienceDaily, 15th October
Sky News, 16th October
Smooth Radio, 16th October
Spire FM, 16th October
Spirit FM, 16th October
The Sun, 15th October
TalkRadio, 15th October
TalkRadio, 16th October
TalkRadio, 21st October
Technology Networks, 16th October
Times, 15th October (front page)
Times, 15th October
Vox, 15th October
WIRED.it, 18th October
Yahoo, 16th October
Yorkshire Coast Radio, 16th October
Classic FM, 16th October.
KL.FM 96.7, 16th October 2019
Panda Radio, 15th October 2019
Pirate FM, 15th October 2019
A short non-technical piece on my work with Eugenio Proto and Mahnaz Nazneen on happiness and cooperation, Are happy people more cooperative? Understanding how good mood affects productivity in the workplace, is now out in Advantage magazine.
September 2019
The paper Happiness and Cooperation (by Eugenio Proto, Daniel Sgroi and Mahnaz Nazneen) has been accepted for publication by the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. The link is to the earlier working paper version (which has a different title).
August 2019
Media citations for my work on "Happiness & Productivity":
World Finance, 29th August.
Portafolio, 28th August.
Diario do Comercio, 28th August.
Jolie.de, 27th August.
TAG24,25th August.
CNBC, 21st August.
Stocks News Feed, 21st August.
IT Forum 365, 15th August.
Terra, 15th August.
Novo Momento, 15th August.
Estado de Minas, 15th August.
ACR Latinoamérica, 13th August.
Game of Gold in Life, 11th August.
World Finance, 10th August.
Bienvenido a mi Blog, 10th August.
Brink News, 7th August.
El Peruano, 5th August.
Human Resources Director, 2nd August.
Inc.com, 1st August.
July 2019
I featured in this year's professorial promotion celebration at Warwick.
Media citations to my work on "Happiness & Productivity":
People Matters, 28th July.
Inside Higher Ed, 25th July.
Takis Athanassiou, 23rd July.
Forbes, 19th July.
Forbes, 18th July.
Business Weekly, 17th July.
StartUpValley.news, 16th July.
IP Mittelstand, 15th July.
Silicon Republic, 11th July.
HR Daily Advisor, 10th July
Thrive Global, 10th July.
Yanko Design, 9th July.
Concrete, 6th July.
June 2019
The paper Historical Analysis of National Subjective Wellbeing using Millions of Digitized Books (by Thomas Hills, Eugenio Proto Daniel Sgroi and Chanuki Seresinhe) has been accepted for publication by Nature: Human Behaviour. The link is to the earlier working paper version.
A CAGE Conference marking the ten year anniversary of the centre was held this month. As part of this:
I organised a Workshop on the Use of Language in Economics and the Social Sciences from 26th-27th June.
I presented a paper on Measuring Happiness in the Past using Text as part of the workshop on 26th June.
I also talked about Theme 3 of CAGE as part of the Policy Day on 27th June.
Presentation (followed by panel discussion): A New Way to Measure Happiness at the Warwick Behavioural Science Summit on 20th June.
Media citations to my work on "Happiness & Productivity":
Verdict, 21st June.
HR News, 20th June.
Business Leader, 19th June.
Next Web, 18th June.
Business Link, 16th June.
Association for Project Management, 7th June.
Tecnológico de Monterrey, 5th June.
Total News, 5th June.
Tokyo Daily News, 1st June.
Entrepreneur, 1st June.
Uncova, 1st June.
May 2019
Presentation: Theory of Mind and Strategic Decision-Making at Warwick, 14th May.
Media citations to my work on "Happiness & Productivity":
Bristol Business Post, 17th May.
Real Business, 15th May.
iProUP, 14th May.
Suara, 12th May.
April 2019
I have become Co-ordinator of the new Experimental and Behavioural Economics Research Group in the Economics Department at Warwick.
Presentation: Ignoring Good Advice at the Royal Economic Society Conference at Warwick on 16th April.
New working paper: Theory of Mind and Strategic Decision-Making, CAGE Working Paper 409, 2019, with Neha Bose.
Paper presented at the DR@W Forum in Warwick on 25th April.
New working paper (new version): Historical Analysis of National Subjective Wellbeing using Millions of Digitized Books, Warwick Economic Working Paper Series 1186, 2019, with Thomas Hills, Eugenio Proto and Chanuki Seresinhe.
There is a nice piece on the paper in Le Monde written by Paul Seabright, here (in French).
Presentation: Historical Analysis of National Wellbeing using Digitized Text, at LSE on 2nd April.
I was promoted to the post of Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick on 1st April.
Media citations to my work on "Happiness & Productivity":
Elite Learning, 25th April.
CorpComms, 24th April.
RRHH Digital, 4th April.
March 2019
Media citations to my work on "Happiness & Productivity":
Good to SEO, 31st March.
Bloglikes, 30th March.
Small Business Trends, 30th March.
ECN Magazine, 29th March.
Engineer News Network, 27th March.
IT Business Net, 26th March.
Automation.com, 26th March.
Reno Gazette Journal, 26th March.
Charity Digital News, 22nd March.
Merca20, 22nd March.
Donut, 21st March.
O Debate,14th March.
Uncova, 13th March.
Voice, 12th march.
Entrepreneur, 12th March.
Cosmopolitan, 7th March.
People Development Magazine, 7th March.
Readmoo News, 7th March.
Venue Finder, 6th March.
Invest More, 3rd March.
Good to SEO, 3rd March.
February 2019
Media citations to my work on "Happiness & Productivity":
Business News Wales, 20th February.
FMLink,17th February.
Blue and Green Tomorrow, 14th February.
HRD Connect, 14th February.
Wired, 9th February.
Wired UK, 7th February.
Workplace and Facilities Management Magazine, 6th February.
January 2019
My PhD students (Anthony Tuckwell and Shi Zhuo), co-author (Elliot Ash) and I have just won a Mind & Life European Varela Award of 17,500 euros to fund our new project seeking to investigate the behavioural impact of mindfulness.
Media citations to my work on "Happiness & Productivity":
Enterprise Risk, 23rd January.
Weekend Post, 22nd January.
Verdict, 22nd January.
South Sound Business, 10th January.
Risk UK, 9th January.
Uzone, 9th January.
December 2018
Presentation: Theory of Mind and Strategic Decision-Making at the School of Economics, University of East Anglia on 11th December.
Media citations to my work on "Happiness & Productivity":
Enterprise Risk, 29th December.
Birmingham Business Post, 25th December.
Business Achievers, 21st December.
Catering Today, 21st December.
Gretchen Rubin, 21st December.
Yahoo, 16th December.
AOL, 16th December.
Investors Chronicle, 15th December.
People Management, 15th December.
Forbes, 13th December.
Forbes, 12th December.
Cosmopolitan (Polish edition), 8th December.
Employee Benefits, 4th December.
Entrepreneurship in a Box, 3rd December.
November 2018
I was part of a panel discussing the ramifications of extended lifespans in the future on 27th November. The event was organized by the School of Life Sciences at Warwick and intended for the general public.
Interviewed by Melanie Abbott for BBC Radio 4's "You and Yours" consumer affairs programme on the topic of nudge theory. The full programme is available here.
Interviewed by my own department (!) here.
Media citations to my work on "Happiness & Productivity":
Metro, 22nd November.
Forbes, 22nd November.
Britsol Business Post, 21st, November.
Born2Invest, 17th November.
Forbes, 16th November.
SFGate, 9th November.
MSN, 8th November.
Entrepreneur, 8th November.
Khaleej Times, 8th November.
24 Emirates, 8th November.
HR Technologist, 8th November.
Uncova, 8th November.
October 2018
Media citations to my work on "Happiness & Productivity":
EXAME, 26th October
Forbes, 25th October.
HRZone, 25th October.
WIRED UK, 24th October.
Born2Invest, 22nd October.
Stile.it, 22nd October.
Daily Mail, 20th October.
This is Money, 20th October.
Kompas.com, 18th October.
Business Insider, 17th October.
Nigeria Daily News, 17th October.
Pulse.ng, 17th October.
Uncova, 17th October.
Administradores, 16th October.
Entrepreneur Magazine, 10th October.
Equities.com, 6th October.
September 2018
Media citations to my work on "Happiness & Productivity":
Business Insider, 20th September 2018.
Redion Trader, 20th September 2018.
Forbes, 19th September 2018".
Entrepreneur, 19th September 2018.
Uncova, 19th September 2018.
Startups, 18th September 2018.
Tech Jollof, 7th September 2018.
Ground Report, 6th September 2018.
NZ Herald, 4th September 2018.
Business Scoop, 4th September.
Newstalk ZB, 4th September 2018.
Voxy, 4th September 2018.
Coach Magazine, 2nd September 2018.
Daily Business Group, 1st September 2018.
August 2018
Presentations in August:
Happiness & Cooperation at the European Economic Association Conference, University of Cologne, Germany, 29th August 2018.
Measuring Happiness in the Past at the Econometric Society European Meeting, University of Cologne, Germany, 29th August 2018.
Media citations to my work on "Happiness & Productivity" in August:
Developpez, 16th August 2018.
Fortune, 11th August 2018.
Yahoo, 8th August 2018.
Real Business, 8th August 2018.
Delivered, 3rd August 2018.
Automotive Management, 1st August 2018.
July 2018
Presentation: What is Economics Really About? Guest Lecturer at the Warwick Summer School, 30th July 2018.
Media citations to my work on "Happiness & Productivity":
Morning Star, 17th July.
FNTalk, 17th July 2018.
Open Air Business, 17th July 2018.
Rix & Kay Solicitors LLP, 13th July.
Wilson County News, 12th July 2018.
TLNT, 10th July 2018.
Metro, 9th July 2018.
CMS Wire, 7th July 2018.
Delivered, 3rd July 2018.
June 2018
Presentation: Happiness & Cooperation, Social Preference Workshop, University of Birmingham, 1st June 2018.
Media citations to my work on "Happiness & Productivity":
Citywire Wealth Manager, 30th June 2018.
TrainingZone, 6th June 2018.
May 2018
I have been invited to become a research fellow of the leading economic research institute, the IZA Institue of Labor Economics in Bonn.
My paper (joint with Andrew Oswald and Eugenio Proto), entitled Happiness and Productivity which was published in the Journal of Labor Economics in 2015, remains in the top 3 most read papers in the Journal of Labor Economics despite now being 3 years old (and was the most cited paper in the journal in 2015, with over 500 cites on Google scholar).
Media citations to my work on "Happiness & Productivity":
Dental Review News, 31st May 2018.
Business 2 Community, 30th May 2018.
Metro News, 29th May 2018.
Incentive & Motivation, 26th May 2018.
Pymempresario, 19th May 2018.
March 2018
Presentation: The Effect of Positive Mood on Cooperation in the Repeated Prisoners' Dilemma, Royal Economic Society Annual Conference 2018, University of Sussex.
The answers to last month's World Wellbeing Panel survey have been posted online. The questions concern gender and wellbeing and the panel's answers can be found here: WWP survey. Here are my responses:
Question 1: Do you agree that on balance, clear and distinct gender roles (whatever they are) decrease the average wellbeing of the population?
Response: Agree. I am not aware of a huge amount of work in this area, but recent research by Heather Brown and Jennifer Roberts at Sheffield based on data from the British Household Panel Survey may provide some relevant guidance. For example, if women earn more than their husbands but still do more housework (perhaps because of the pressure on them to also act as homemakers) their wellbeing suffers. Similarly, males who see themselves as breadwinners have lower wellbeing when their wives earn more than they do. This suggests that gender biases based on traditional roles are persistent and damaging to wellbeing, especially in the face of welcome increases in equality in the workplace.
Question 2: Do you agree that an active policy that discourages any particular gender role narrative is likely to increase the average wellbeing of the population?
Response: Agree. Following on from my earlier answer, while there is not an overwhelming amount of research in this area (which suggests that we need more), what there is does seem consistent with common sense: it appears that gender role stereotyping puts pressure on both males and females and policy designed to overcome this is likely to help wellbeing.
February 2018
I have become a member of the World Wellbeing Panel: a panel of some of the biggest names in subjective wellbeing in the world. The panel is based at LSE and each month addresses questions relating to wellbeing chosen from a list provided by journalists, policy-makers and academics.
Media: Managers: Avoid a 'Jekyll and Hyde' Relationship with Employees, Dice
January 2018
Working paper: When Good Advice is Ignored: The Role of Envy and Stubbornness (with David Ronayne) published in the CAGE, CRETA, Warwick Economics and Nuffield College working paper series.
Media citations:
Five Surprising Ways to Increase Employee Satisfaction, Capterra.
More Happy, More Productive, Business Lounge Journal.
December 2017
Media citations:
The weekly roundup of events "on the national scene" in the Jersey Evening Post includes a discussion of my work (with Thomas Hill and Eugenio Proto) on historical happiness.
Was 1957 Really So Great? Shropshire Star.
November 2017
Working paper: The Effect of Positive Mood on Cooperation in Repeated Interaction (with Eugenio Proto and Mahnaz Nazneen) published in the CAGE, Warwick Economics and IZA working paper series.
Interviewed on BBC Radio Scotland on the topic of historical happiness.
Media citations:
The Best Year of All, Glossop Chronicle.
Sunday Memories, Liverpool Echo.
Happy Year of Jiving, Juke Boxes and Teddy Boys, Nottingham Post.
The Best Year of All, Oldham Reporter.
September 2017
Media citation: Why Happiness at Work is So Important, Peak Conflict Solutions.
August 2017
Publication: On the motivations for the Dual-Use of Electronic and Traditional Cigarettes (with David Ronayne) published in Applied Economics Letters.
Working paper: On the Motivations for the Dual-Use of Electronic and Traditional Cigarettes (with David Ronayne) published in the Oxford Economics Working Paper Series.
July 2017
The LSE Business Review features a blog entry written by me entitled Measuring Happiness across the Ages.
American Economic Association RCT registry entry for Understanding the Motivation of Organ Donors in the Iranian Organ Market, with Ali Kelishomi Moghaddasi. Two year field study launched this month.
I have become an Associate Member of Nuffield College at the University of Oxford.
June 2017
American Economic Association RCT registry entry for When Good Advice is Ignored: The Role of Adviser Remuneration, with David Ronayne.
May 2017
Presentations:
Cooperation and Positive Mood in the Repeated Prisoners’ Dilemma, School of Economics, University of East Anglia.
Historical Analysis of National Subjective Wellbeing using Millions of Digitized Books, Wellbeing Seminar, Centre for Economic Policy Research, London School of Economics.
April 2017
A short documentary on YouTube entitled The Science of Happiness references my work with Andrew Oswald and Eugenio Proto on happiness and productivity.
Publication: Biased Beliefs and Imperfect Information published in the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (volume 136, pages 186-202, with Eugenio Proto).
March 2017
The ESRC website features a written by me about measuring happiness entitled How happy are we? Measuring happiness through the ages.
February 2017
Plenary speaker (talking on the topic of historical wellbeing) at the ONS (Office of National Statistics) annual RAS conference, Newport, Wales. Here are my slides.
Panel member and speaker at the CAGE policy launch on Understanding Happiness at the University of Warwick. YouTube video here.
Radio interviews:
Talk Radio Europe by Giles Brown on The Daily programme.
BBC Radio Wiltshire.
Media citations to my work in measuring happiness in the past in February:
Britain was at its happiest in 1957, Epoch Times.
Ninteen Fifties Heaven, The War Cry.
Media citation to my work on "Happiness & Productivity": Is Elon Musk the World's Best Boss? The Daily Mail.
January 2017
Policy launch: Joint CAGE/SMF Understanding Happiness policy document released.
Lanch event for the Understanding Happiness policy report at the British Academy in London, some slides.
Press release on the Understanding Happiness policy launch.
Radio interviews:
BBC Radio Five Live
talkRADIO.
Radio Scotland.
BBC Radio West Midlands.
BBC Radio Coventry & Warwickshire. More details on the CAGE page.
BBC Radio Hereford & Worcester.
Newspaper interviews:
The Daily Mail, and reported as Britain's Happiest Year.
The Telegraph, and reported as Harold Macmillan was Right.
Media citations to my work on measuring happiness in the past:
We've Never Had it so Good, The Times.
1957 was the Happiest Year, Daily Express.
Back to the Future, The Guardian.
1957 Declared as Britain's Happiest Year, Eastern Daily.
1957 was the Happiest Year in the Twentieth Century, WB News.
1957 Really Was the Happiest Year Ever, Scottish Daily Mail.
Love, Marriage...1957 Truely Was a Diamond Year, Scottish Daily Mail (print version).
A Word in Favour of Books, Northern Echo.
Warwick Research Shows 1957 was the Happiest Year in Britain, The Tab.
1957 was the Happiest Year of the last Century, Nederlands Dagblad (in Dutch).
1957 Happiest Year of the Twentieth Century, LocalGov.
Victorians were Happier than we are Today, The Week.
Why 1957 was Britain's Happiest Year, Mogaz News.
Britain has never been Happier than it was in 1957, YahooNews.
M1957 was the Happiest Year of the Twentieth Century, Report UK.
That Was the Year That Was, Norwich Evening News.
Blog coverage:
Britain Never Happier than 1957, Acken Blog.
November 2016
Presentation: Historical Analysis of National Subjective Wellbeing using Millions of Digitized Books, Centre for Experimental Social Science, Nuffield College, University of Oxford.
October 2016
Media citations to my work on "Happiness & Productivity" in October:
Work Happy, The City Magazine.
Google's mantra to keep employees happy and productive, The Economic Times.
Blog coverage of my work
Why work culture directly impacts empoyee productivity, [Engage] The Employee Engagement Blog.
7 reasons why fun in the office is the future of work, CIPHR All About People.
Tricks for a happier day at work, CareerBuilder.
I have started my sabbatical and will be based at the Centre for Experimental Social Science, Nuffield College in the University of Oxford for the 2016/17 academic year.
September 2016
The Economics Department at Warwick produced a piece summarizing my historical happiness research entitled Two centuries of data reveal that health not wealth has always been the key to wellbeing.
Media coverage of my work on "Happiness & Productivity": Happiness myth of the swinging sixties, PressReader.com.
Blog coverage:
Proven productivity boosters based on research, B2C (Business 2 Community).
Being happy at work improves productivity, Grid Work.
August 2016
Presentation: Historical Analysis of Wellbeing at the European Economic Association Conference in Geneva.
Interviewed on BBC Radio 4 (the PM programme) and on BBC Radio Wales about historical happiness levels. You can hear me talk about happiness from 51:40 to 57:20 on the PM programme (24/08/16) here or via a direct link to the mini-documentary on happiness here.
Interviewed by the The Daily Mail on measuring happiness over time, reported as Forget the age of plenty, we were happier in the 1700s!
Interviewed by John Bingham, Social Affairs Editor of the Telegraph newspaper on the topic of twentieth century hapiness in the UK, resulting in the online piece in The Telegraph How the Sexual Revolution and Money in the Pocket didn't make Britain Happy and the print version in The Daily Telegraph Not so Swinging Sixties: proof that sex and money doesn’t make us happy.
Media coverage of my work on measuring happiness in the past:
You've never had it so good, BT.com.
Forget the age of plenty, Mogaznews En.
Happier in the era of workhouses, The Sun.
Blog coverage of my work on "Happiness & Productivity":
Improve Productivity by Investing in your Employees, Aepiphanni.com
Recognizing Passion Means Creating Happiness, Indopositive (in Indonesian).
Raj at Work, Harvard Business Review Polska (in Polish).
Happiness Makes us More Productive...and vice versa, Life in the Balance (www.wholehealth.today)
Why, beyond Middle Age, People get Happier as they get Older, Dem Alter begegnen
July 2016
Media of my work on "Happiness & Productivity":
Creating A Happier Workforce for Higher Productivity in Afghanistan, Daily Outlook Afghanistan.
How CEOs Can Help Improve Productivity by Keeping Employees Happy, Chief Executive Magazine.
Creating a happier workforce for higher productivity in Myanmar, The Global New Light of Myanmar.
Blog coverage:
How to Nurture: 7 Key Elements of Employee Engagement, CIPHR Blog
Happy Employees are 12% more Productive at Work, Fastcompany.com.
June 2016
Awarded the overall Teaching Excellence Award and special recognition in the Student Experience Award in the annual Senior Managment Team prize-giving in the Economics Department at Warwick.
Appointed to a visiting professorship at the Centre for Experimental Social Science, Nuffield College, University of Oxford, 2016-17.
Appointed External Examiner for Part One of the Economics Tripos at the Faculty of Economics & Politics, University of Cambridge, 2016-17.
Media citations to my work on "Happiness & Productivity":
Happier Workers Could be more Productive, Shanghai Daily.
Unhappy Workers Produce Less, Business Day.
Creating a Happier Workfroce for Higher Productivity in Japan, Japan Today.
Training – an Employee or Corporate Benefit? Enterprise Times
Happier Workers Could Be More Productive, China.org.cn.
Happy Working Boosts Productivity, Hong Kong Commerical Daily (in Chinese).
Five Ways to a Happier Workforce, The Economic Times (India).
What Makes for Happy Employees (Without a Raise): Secrets Revealed, HR in Asia.
Creating Happier Workforce, The Korea Times.
Why Employers Should Pay Attention to the Financial Wellness of their Employees, Corporate Wellness Magazine.
Blog coverage:
Happy Employees Work Harder, Sizous (in Dutch).
5 Simple Steps to Skyrocket your Career, CEO Stars (in Indonesian).
Happiness Makes People More Productive at Work, Prevencion Integral (in Spanish).
May 2016
An article entitled "Happiness and Productivity" summarising my work appeared in ForumEPFL.
Media citation of my work on "Happiness & Productivity": Why Chocoholics are More Productive, The Business Desk.
Blog coverage:
Greater Happiness Leads to Greater Productivity, Business 2 Community.
10 Things to Keep Company Culture Cool, Calm and Cohesive, Iris.
Safeguarding Mobile Security while Keeping Employees Happy, dotnet.
Happy People are Productive People, eChangeGroup.com
Corporate Wellbeing, Grow Your Own Happiness.
Safeguarding Mobile Security while Keeping Employees Happy, cloudstanding.co.uk
Congratulations to Mihaly Abel, one of my RAE students for winning the "outstanding contribution" prize at the Carroll Round.
April 2016
The Journal of Dental Technology has summarised and discussed my research on happiness and productivity in an article Happy Technicians.
Blog coverage of my work on "Happiness & Productivity":
How to be Happier at Work, Quality Progress.
Measuring the Quality of Jobs in OECD Countries, by Stefano Scarpetta, Sandrine Cazes, Andrea Garnero, VoxEU.
How to Kill Happiness at Work, Globoforce.
March 2016
Presentations:
Historical Analysis of Wellbeing at the Royal Economic Society Conference at the University of Sussex (Brighton).
How Happy were your Great Grandparents? Measuring Happiness in the Past using Google Books to a group of artists and playwrights at Warwick as part of the "This is Tomorrow" programme.
Event: Nominated and shortlisted for a University of Warwick staff award (for Economics Marketing with Jo Hart).
Interviewed by the Charted Managment Institute (CMI) on the topic of "happiness and productivity".
Interviewed by the University of Warwick about my teaching advice after being commended for teaching.
February 2016
Keynote lecture: How Happy were your Great Grandparents? Measuring Happiness in the Past using Google Books at the Warwick Economics Summit.
The Business in the Community/Mind report "Leading on Wellbeing: Transforming the Role of Line Managers" uses my research to suport a new blueprint for "unlocking employee mental wellbeing and productivity".
Newspaper interviews:
How to be a better co-worker, Reader's Digest Canada.
Warwick event aims to learn lessons of history, Times Higher Education.
Blog coverage:
January 2016
Appointed to the editorial advisory board of the Review of Economics and Political Science based in the University of Cairo.
Blog coverage of my work on e-cigarettes:
Why e-cigarettes could be holding back your plans to quit smoking, Ethics and Health Law News.
Why e-cigarettes could be holding back your plans to quit smoking, Recovery Resources.
Media citations to my work on e-cigarettes:
Vaping: how e-cigarettes could be holding you back from quitting smoking, The Independent.
How e-cigarettes could be stopping you from quitting, The Daily Mail
Why e-cigarettes could be holding back your plans to quit smoking, The Conversation. 65,760 reads in January, the highest of any Conversation article (more than twice the reads of the second highest).
Non-technical research summaryof my work on "Happiness & Productivity": The Happy-Productive Worker, IPA Bulletin.
Blog coverage of my owrk on "Happiness & Productivity": Happiness: Why it's your key to career success, Cheat Sheet.
December 2015
New Working Paper: When Herding and Contrarianism Foster Market Efficiency: A Financial Trading Experiment with Andreas Park.
Interviewed by Reader's Digest Canada on the topic of "happiness and productivity" (article coming out in February).
Blog coverage of my owrk on "Happiness & Productivity":
Happy Workers are Productive Workers, 20 Something Finance.
Three BIG Scientifically Proven Ways Corporate Team Building Promotes Employee Happiness and Business Success, Terrapin Adventures.
5 Ways to Stay Productive During the Holidays, Cheat Sheet.
November 2015
This month I received a commendation by the University of Warwick at the Warwick Award for Teaching Excellence awards ceremony.
Presentation: Historical Analysis of Wellbeing to "Stan's Cafe" theatre company.
Media coverage of my work on "Happiness & Productivity": Il Denario Puo Comparae La Felicita, Insider Pro (in Italian).
Blog coverage of my owrk on "Happiness & Productivity":
What Makes a Happy Employee, Workplace Focus.
Enfocarse en Fortalezas, Positive Pscyhology News Daily in Espaniol (in Spanish).
Congratulations to my PhD students:
David Ronayne for passing his PhD viva and winning a Research Fellowship at Nuffield College (University of Oxford).
Thanos Athanasopoulos for getting a tenure-track Lectureship (Assistant Professorship) at Leicester Business School.
October 2015
New Publication: Happiness and Productivity, Journal of Labor Economics 33(4): 789-822, with Oswald & Proto.
New Working Paper: E-Cigarettes: The Extent and Impact of Dual Use, Warwick Economic Research Paper 1064, with Doyle & Ronayne.
Presentations:
Happiness & Productivity, presented to a Treasury delegation at Warwick.
Historical Analysis of National Subjective Wellbeing, presented to the Government Economic Service at the Treasury.
Happiness & Productivity Policy Briefing, Social Market Foundation, London.
Media coverage of my work:
Being happy at work really makes you more productive, Fortune.
Keeping up with the Karumes, The Economist.
Half of SMEs expect productivity to increase, HR Magazine (based on an interview).
Financial Education for Employees: The Business Benefits of Good Citizenship, HR Magazine.
Happy People Earn More, Genius Beauty (Womens Magazine).
Blog coverage:
Financial Education for Employees? Open University Business School.
Enfocarse en Fortalezas, Positive Pscyhology News Daily (in Spanish).
Happy People Make More Money, Daily as Fresh.
Cleanliness is next to Happiness and Productivity, First Impressions Janitorial.
Happy Staff, A Pitch for Common Sense.
September 2015
New Working Paper: Historical Analysis of National Subjective Wellbeing using Millions of Digitized Books, IZA DP 9195 and CAGE WP 236-2015, with Hills & Proto.
Non-technical research summaries of my work:
Media citations to my work:
Happy People Work Harder, Epoch Times.
L'indice di Felicita' e' nella Lingua, Rai News (in Italian).
Come Funziona l'Indice di Felicita, Rai News (in Italian).
Economistas intrépidos detrás de la contabilidad de largo plazo, La Nacion (in Spanish).
Blog coverage:
Before 1980s Americans were as unhappy as they had been since before the civil war then something happened, American Enterprise Forum.
The Key to Happiness, Productivity and National Income, The Market Mogul.
The Chartered Management Institute summarised my research in an article How being happy can make you better at your job