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Enquiring into Wellbeing: Reflections on Culture, Method and Inner Truths

This symposium will reflect on the process of enquiring into wellbeing in diverse social and cultural contexts. Papers are invited that address one or more of the three main questions below. Most papers should have an empirical basis in the author’s own research, but critical reviews of the wider wellbeing literature will also be considered. All papers must be newly written for this symposium. As the intention is to use the symposium as the basis for an edited book, previously published papers cannot be presented here.

1)      How do methods of enquiring about wellbeing need to be adapted to reflect different social and cultural contexts?
2)      How do different disciplinary or methodological approaches shape the ways that wellbeing is conceptualised?
3)      How may different methods used to enquire into wellbeing themselves be implicated in the constructions of wellbeing that they produce?

The symposium will be held in Bath on 24-25 October 2013. It will be hosted by the Wellbeing Pathways Research Project and the Centre for Development Studies, University of Bath. It will be led by Sarah C. White with Chloe Blackmore as event organiser. The event will be free to attend (not including overnight B&B) but participants must commit to stay for the full symposium, which is intended to generate substantive discussions which will be significant in the preparation of the final manuscript, as well as to provide an opportunity to present and listen to papers.

Abstracts of 200 words are requested by Monday 5 August and should be sent to Chloe Blackmore (wellbeing-symposium@bath.ac.uk). Notification of acceptance will be given byMonday 12 August. The deadline for full papers will be Tuesday 1 October. A final selection of papers to be revised for submission as part of the edited book will take place after the workshop. The deadline for full revised papers will be January 6, 2014.

If you have any queries please contact Sarah or Chloe