Living Well
Our Living Well experts are drawn from across many subject areas, including sports science, psychology, marketing, economics and health to look at improving global well-being – allowing people to maintain, attain or regain good health.
Major research projects include exploring the impact of alcohol licensing and tobacco plain packaging, establishing how to help people live well with dementia and ensuring the best nursing and cancer care is delivered to patients.
Related research programmes
Ageing and Dementia
The world's population is living longer, presenting challenges to health, long-term care and economies. By investigating the health and social wellbeing of communities, our research results in positive change.
Health and Behaviour
Human behaviour is having an impact on health. We explore behaviours that can improve lives, and influence policy to drive change.
Mobile Cognition
By investigating how human brains work in the real world, we offer a new perspective on the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of neurological conditions.
Contextual Learning in Humans and Machines
Intelligent machines are making increasingly sophisticated decisions, but, without context, they bring risk. We seek to enhance machine-based decision-making to positively impact society.
See all 12 of our research programmes
Take a closer look at all of our research programmes and see how we're working to make a difference for individuals and communities nationally and internationally.
Impact highlights
PhD profile – Tom Di Virgilio
Read more about our research into the true impact of heading a football, which was featured in a major BBC documentary investigating the links between football and dementia.
More research themes
Cultures, Communities and Society
Striving to bring communities together in mutually-beneficial ways.
Global Security and Resilience
Providing the world's population with a sustainable way of living.