Inauguration of The Well-Being Institute, University of Cambridge.
(Précis from the article published on the University website, week beginning 20th November 2006)
Inauguration of The Well-Being Institute, University of Cambridge
On Monday 20th November 2006, exactly three years on from their Royal Society three-day international conference on The Science of Well-being, Professor Felicia Huppert and Dr Nick Baylis officially launched The Well-Being Institute, University of Cambridge. They are the co-founding, co-directors of this, the University's first such Institute.
Their guest of honour was the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Alison Richard.
Attending the launch ceremony luncheon hosted by King's College Cambridge, were some 30 guests:
From outside the University came the leaders of Wellington College, Microsoft, Unilever, The Global Group, ARUP UK, The NW Brown Group and The Royal Society Overseas.
From within the University, came the heads of the School of Education, the Centre for Family Research, the Clinical Medical School, Psychiatry, Criminology, Economics, Architecture, Engineering Design, and the Business School's MBA programme and Executive Development programme.
For a short while, the WBI will be a 'virtual' Institute - awaiting funding and collaborations and physical premises - but both Nick and Felicia have ambitious projects already well underway: visit www.CambridgeWellbeing.org to read more.