UCL Wellbeing Research Prize Workshop
Friday 17 February 2012
9.45am – 4pm
Jeremy Bentham Room, Wilkins Building, UCL
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Workshop convenor: Nick Tyler, Chadwick Professor of Civil Engineering, UCL,
Director, UCL Crucible Centre for Lifelong Health & Wellbeing
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Workshop facilitator: Amanda Stott, Director, facilitate this!
Expert panel
Andrew Clark Director, Research Planning, Office for the Vice-Provost (Research)
Paul Dalby Reader, Department of Biochemical Engineering
James Malone-Lee Professor of Medicine Research, Department of Clinical
Physiology, London Medical School
Nick Tyler Chair
Jo Wolff Professor, UCL Philosophy, Centre for Philosophy, Justice and Health
Morning session
9.45
Tea and coffee
10.00
Welcome and introductions (Nick Tyler)
Setting up for success
 Scene setting: objectives for the day
 Ideas about ‘wellbeing’. Participants give brief thoughts about
‘wellbeing’ – e.g. What is it? What can it be? How does it change over
time? Participants create informal thought posters to be displayed on
the wall for duration of workshop.
10.45
Review the discussion on Monday 13th and Thursday 16th February and
initial ideas for enquiry
11.15
Tea & coffee
11.30
Cross-disciplinary project groups (self-organised) explore ideas and generate
additional ideas to support emerging themes
12.15
Marketplace with emerging project themes with 5 minutes presentation
per group followed by marketplace over lunch.
12.45
Lunch, tea and coffee and marketplace
overleaf…
Afternoon session
13.30
Identify 2-3 themes which could be developed into specific research
proposals which could be funded.
14.30
Research proposal presentations to an expert panel – 15 minutes per
group
15.15
Tea and coffee
Particpants leave the room for 30 minutes
Expert panel reviews projects
15.45
Reconvene
Panel announce the winning project £10,000 prize
16.00
Nick Tyler: final thoughts, drinks reception