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DTSTART:20090407T080000Z
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LOCATION:Department of Geography
SUMMARY:Well-being and Place: an International Conference
DESCRIPTION:An International Conference for Researchers.Policy attention h
 as manifest a distinct shift in its targets over the last    ten years awa
 y from the purely material and economic to embrace more subjective    dime
 nsions of human flourishing. Amongst a range of terms that have entered   
  policy debates, well-being has perhaps gained the greatest currency, inco
 rporating    both physical and cognitive elements and applied across indiv
 idual and collective    scales of analysis. That the definition, experienc
 e and determinants of well-being    will vary in different kinds of place 
 is self-evident; nonetheless, the complex    ways in which place and well-
 being interact remain relatively under-researched    and under-theorised. 
 This conference then aims to draw together research that explicitly links 
 well-being    and place to advance knowledge and stimulate future directio
 ns that are both    creative intellectually and timely for contemporary po
 licy debates. We hope    to attract research from a range of different sca
 les of analysis, across different    substantive domains and from both pol
 icy-linked and more explorative approaches.    The concept of place is int
 erpreted broadly from geographical locations (urban,    rural, city, natio
 n), everyday settings (home, work, school, street, leisure    centres) and
  different scales (individual to international). We welcome contributions 
 from the academic and policy related communities on    issues that link pl
 ace and well-being. Potential themed sessions include, but    are not limi
 ted to:    Home and well-being     Theory, methods and ethics of well-bein
 g     Transitions: well-being across this life course and the next     The
 rapeutic places and unhealthy spaces     Busy with a purpose; the importan
 ce of doing nothing     Well-being in motion: flows, networks, relations  
    The conference will be held at the internationally renowned Durham Univ
 ersity.      Sessions will take place at the Durham Campus and the Wolfson
  Research Institute      located at Queen’s Campus, Stockton; combin
 ing dramatic historic venues,      with state of the art river-side locati
 ons 
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