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New home for popular Measuring Wellbeing Impact Guide after What Works closure

Following the closure of the What Works Centre for Wellbeing, its popular Measuring Wellbeing Impact Guide is now being hosted by the VCSE Data and Insights National Observatory at Nottingham Business School.

    The guide regularly attracts tens of thousands of visitors each month

    The guide is aimed at charities and social enterprises which run projects, programmes or activities that seek to improve people’s wellbeing. It supports organisations to measure and demonstrate the wider impact they have on the people and communities they support.

    As the new hosts of measure-wellbeing.org, the Observatory will not only offer continued access to the guide - which regularly attracts tens of thousands of visitors each month - but is looking to work with organisations to co-design and develop the resource.

    It also hopes to reintroduce a programme of training and a new, free support service has already been launched. The practical and focused one-to-one Wellbeing Evidence Advice Surgeries will help people with their wellbeing measurement or evidence questions, support them to plan their evaluation or make sense of their results. The online sessions are aimed at people from charities and social enterprises, or those who support them, and who are responsible for evaluation and learning.

    Ingrid Abreu Scherer was previously senior civil society lead at What Works Wellbeing and is now working with Nottingham Business School as a research consultant to manage the Measure Wellbeing website and wider offer. She said: “This is a valuable website for many organisations and we wanted to ensure that not only is the content still available, but it grows and changes with sector needs and challenges.

    “We want to hear from those who use it about what they would like to see, so we’re encouraging people to contribute to the development and give us their feedback via the new website.”

    The VCSE Data and Insights National Observatory at Nottingham Business School, part of Nottingham Trent University, provides a one-stop source of interactive intelligence for policymakers, infrastructure and frontline organisations, and researchers in the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector.

    Director of the Observatory, Professor Daniel King, said: “Hosting this site fits with our aim to develop platforms and tools which provide relevant, timely, and trustworthy information which can be used by policymakers and practitioners to improve people’s lives.”

    Registration for the Wellbeing Evidence Advice Surgeries is initially open for July and August, book directly on this page

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      Nottingham Trent University (NTU) received the Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education in 2021 for cultural heritage science research. It is the second time that NTU has been bestowed the honour of receiving a Queen’s Anniversary Prize for its research, the first being in 2015 for leading-edge research on the safety and security of global citizens.

      The Research Excellence Framework (2021) classed 83% of NTU’s research activity as either world-leading or internationally excellent. 86% of NTU’s research impact was assessed to be either world-leading or internationally excellent.

      NTU was awarded The Times and The Sunday Times Modern University of the Year 2023 and ranked University of the Year in the Whatuni Student Choice Awards 2023. It was awarded Outstanding Support for Students 2020 (Times Higher Education Awards), University of the Year 2019 (Guardian University Awards, UK Social Mobility Awards), Modern University of the Year 2018 (Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide) and University of the Year 2017 (Times Higher Education Awards).

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      NTU is in the UK’s top 10 for number of applications and ranked first for accepted offers (2021 UCAS UG acceptance data). It is also among the UK’s top five recruiters of students from disadvantaged backgrounds and was the first UK university to sign the Social Mobility Pledge.

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    Published on 21 June 2024
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