Felix Cheung and Yeeun Archer Lee Co-Authored Chapter in 2025 World Happiness Report
We’re proud to share that our PI, Dr. Felix Cheung, and former postdoctoral fellow Dr. Yeeun Archer Lee (now Assistant Professor at Trinity Western University) co-authored a chapter in the 2025 World Happiness Report, released on the UN’s International Day of Happiness. Their chapter, titled “Caring and Sharing: Global Analysis of Happiness and Kindness,” highlights…
Canadian Happiness Report 2024
In the first series of Canadian Happiness Reports published in 2022, we drew attention to the downward trend of Canadians’ evaluations of their quality of life since the early-2010s and the well-being disparities that exist in Canada. Since then, there has been a growing concern about declining standards of living in Canada (e.g., inflation, home…
McGill-UofT Wellbeing Seminar Launch
Seminar Schedule Sign up via our Zoom registration page and add the seminar dates to your Google Calendar. Seminar Registration Page Add to Google Calendar The McGill-UofT Wellbeing Seminar hosts a series of open online talks and discussions with leading researchers in the realm of wellbeing across a variety of disciplines. This seminar series, held…
Wellbeing Distributions: The Democratic Way to Measure Happiness
Last month, the What Works Centre for Wellbeing released a report suggesting that when we talk about wellbeing, we should consider not only the average wellbeing in a population but also how that wellbeing is distributed. We strongly support this suggestion but note that choosing a metric for wellbeing inequality shares the same shortcomings as…
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SPSP 2023 in Atlanta!
The Population Well-being Lab attended SPSP 2023 in Atlanta, Georgia last month! This marked the lab’s first-in person SPSP and many of the lab members’ first in-person conference. We are so proud of our presenters! First, Felix Cheung was one of the co-organizers of the Happiness and Well-being Preconference. We had Levi, Elizabeth, Sofia, and Anthony…
EASIxWellbeing Study – Call for Ideas
The Intelligent Adaptive Interventions Lab and the Population Well-being Lab at the University of Toronto are running a collaborative adaptive experiment testing social interventions to improve short-term well-being. We are interested in crowdsourcing creative and out-of-the-box ideas for short social interventions. Instructions for the intervention will be delivered via text message over the course of…
Knowledge Café with Dr. Felix Cheung on Jan. 18th, 2023
On Jan 18th at 12pm ET, Dr. Cheung will examine how government spending across different domains shapes subjective well-being with @UofTCities. RSVP at: https://eventbrite.ca/e/knowledge-cafe-government-spending-and-population-well-being-tickets-480126961667
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We Are Hiring a Postdoctoral Fellow!
The Population Well-being Lab at the University of Toronto is hiring a Postdoctoral Fellow to join us to study population-level determinants and consequences of happiness! We are especially interested in increasing our research capacity to investigate the well-being impact of war and conflict given recent events. The postdoctoral fellow will gain access to large existing datasets, such as the…
Canadian Happiness Report (May 2022)
The Canadian Happiness Report series is dedicated to communicating empirical findings on Canadians’ wellbeing to the public. Our goal is to aid in developing a rigorous and effective QoL framework for Canada using the latest data and methods. In the first report, we found that Canadian well-being has been on a downturn since the late…
Felix Cheung’s upcoming workshops (April and June)
Pre-registration: A Tool for Improving Transparency and Replicability of our Science University of Toronto Social Science Methods Week 20221 pm to 4 pm, April 26 (Tue), ZoomDetails and registration: https://sociology.utoronto.ca/events-2-2/university-of-toronto-social-science-methods-week/university-of-toronto-social-science-methods-week-2022/ Description: The replication crisis and the subsequent meta-science movement suggest that the replicability of published findings is not ideal. One of the key causes to…
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Toronto Star interview on Canadian Happiness Report
“So Canada placing 15th in the World Happiness Report is good, right? Not so fast, researchers say” https://www.thestar.com/life/health_wellness/2022/03/28/so-canada-placing-15th-in-the-world-happiness-report-is-good-right-no-so-fast-researchers-say.html Our Canadian Happiness Report: https://cheung.artsci.utoronto.ca/canadian-happiness-report-march-2022/ If you would like to receive newsletters from our lab where we will present our latest findings along with other engaging content sign up here: https://forms.office.com/r/N5S5YtV9Ab
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Canadian Happiness Report (Mar 2022)
This report will be the first in a series where we present our findings on Canadians’ well-being. Going forward, we will be exploring topics such as well-being trends across provinces and well-being inequality. These more detailed analyses will serve to build a comprehensive and fine-grained understanding of changes in Canadians’ well-being over time. They will…
U of T News interview with Felix Cheung
“The good life: Felix Cheung – who studies well-being – among U of T’s 33 new or renewed Canada Research Chairs” https://www.utoronto.ca/news/good-life-felix-cheung-who-studies-well-being-among-u-t-s-33-new-or-renewed-canada-research
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