Sub themes

Health and Healthy Lifestyles

Understanding the impact of change (eg, environmental change, change through the life span) on identity, health, and well-being; understanding when and why people engage in healthy lifestyles; designing successful and efficient interventions to promote healthy living and ageing.

Changing Families

Understanding how families, organisations, and communities are changing and what psychological, social, legal, and policy implications that change entails.

Changing Cities and Communities

Examining trends in how cities and communities develop and what can be done to ensure they promote and sustain health and wellbeing.

Social and Organisational Innovation

Examining changes in services and technologies, understanding their individual and societal implications, and promoting responsible innovation.

Social and Political Participation

Examining barriers and facilitators to social and political participation, understanding the factors that promote participation, and designing interventions that increase participation.

Addressing Social Inequalities

Understanding existing social inequalities in a range of domains; identifying their impact on achievement, health, and wellbeing; understanding how social equality can be promoted.