For the 2024-2025 season, we will host a collection of three month mini-series, each exploring active topics of discussion in our discipline. In the first two months, two invited speakers will each give a seminar presenting different perspectives on an open question in well-being research. After both sides have been presented, the two speakers will return in the third month for a panel discussion where both perspectives will engage in a dialogue about the quality of existing evidence, their interpretation, and the path towards building consensus or greater understanding.
If you would like to attend the seminar, please register for our mailing list below.
Winter 2025 Schedule
| Date/Time | Speaker | Title |
| January 14th (12 pm ET) | Professor David G. Blanchflower | The Declining Wellbeing of the Young |
| February 11th (12 pm ET) | Professor Michaeline Jensen | Youth Mental Health in a Digital Age: What Do We Know? |
| March 11th (12 pm ET) | TBD | Panel on Social Media and Well-being |
Talk Recordings Archive
For further information, questions, and media inquiries please contact Dr. Felix Cheung and Dr. Chris Barrington-Leigh at happiness@utoronto.ca.
The McGill-UofT Wellbeing Research Seminar is an initiative of the Canadian Happiness Economics Research Network (CHERN), a working group of the Canadian Economics Association.