Mark Fabian

I am assistant professor of public policy at the University of Warwick and an affiliate researcher at the Bennett Institute for Public Policy at Cambridge University. I was previously a Fulbright Scholar at the Brookings Institution in DC. I completed my PhD in economics from the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University in 2018. My dissertation was an interdisciplinary exploration of well-being theory and measurement in a policy context (published in 2022 with Oxford University Press as A Theory of Subjective Wellbeing). I continue to work primarily in these areas. I try to take a trans-disciplinary approach, which means that I am an area specialist (well-being) rather than a discipline specialist, and I publish in journals across multiple fields. I don't feel at home anywhere, but when PPE (philosophy, politics, economics) crosses with philosophy of science that's pretty close, except that I do a lot of policy work (i.e. much more applied than either PPE or philosophy of science). I also use mixed methods in my research, having published philosophical,  quantitative, and qualitative papers. 

check out my podcast, ePODstemology: https://epodstemology.buzzsprout.com/

And my blog: https://markfabian.blogspot.com/  

I hope this quote sums up what I do pretty well:

Besides looking for models in machinery with discrete parts, wellbeing researchers should be looking at the arts of cooking, weaving, painting, music and literature where holistic thinking and orchestrated designs are known to produce qualities (including information) not present in their distinct parts. - Michalos et al. 2011, The Canadian Index of Wellbeing.