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Policy and Practice Public Seminar presented by Jonathan Boston (VUW)

21 November 2019, 6:15 pm–7:30 pm

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Measures of Wellbeing

Event Information

Open to

All

Availability

Yes

Organiser

Abi Turner

Location

Council Room
School of Public Policy
29-30 Tavistock Square
London
WC1H 9QU

Learn more about New Zealand's pioneering wellbeing budget, and the UK’s National Wellbeing Programme being developed by the Office for National Statistics (ONS). 

The UK’s Office for National Statistics has been measuring individual wellbeing for almost ten years. And in New Zealand, the Labour-led government delivered the first ever ‘wellbeing budget’ in May. But the pursuit of wellbeing raises ethical, conceptual, and practical challenges. In this seminar two experts from New Zealand join the ONS statistician in charge of measures of wellbeing, to discuss New Zealand's wellbeing budget, and the lessons for the UK.

 

Speakers:

  • Glenn Everett, Head of Sustainability and Inequalities at ONS
  • Andrew Aitken, Senior Economist at NIESR and Research Associate at ESCoE (Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence)
  • Professor Jonathan Boston, Victoria University Wellington.

About the Speaker

Jonathan Boston

at Victoria University of Wellington (VUW)

Jonathan Boston is Professor of Public Policy in the School of Government at Victoria University of Wellington. His research interests include: climate change policy (both mitigation and adaptation); child poverty; governance (especially anticipatory governance); public management; tertiary education funding (especially research funding); and welfare state design. He has served at various times as the Director of the Institute of Policy Studies and the Director of the Institute for Governance and Policy Studies at Victoria University of Wellington. Recent books and major reports include: Child Poverty in New Zealand (with Simon Chapple) (2014); Governing for the Future: Designing Democratic Institutions for a Better Tomorrow (2017); Safeguarding the Future: Governing in an Uncertain World (2017); and Foresight, Insight, and Oversight: Enhancing Long-Term Governance through Better Parliamentary Scrutiny (with David Bagnall and Anna Barry) (2019). He is the editor of Policy Quarterly.