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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.

Ageing and Dementia

Health and Behaviour

Human behaviour is having an impact on health. We explore behaviours that can improve lives, and influence policy to drive change.

Health and Behaviour

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.

Mobile Cognition

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.

Contextual Learning in Humans and Machines

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. 

All research programmes

Impact highlights

Tackling tobacco

Our research contributed directly to the development of the 2009 Health Act (England and Wales) and the Tobacco and Primary Medical Services (Scotland) Act 2010. Both acts restrict the display of tobacco at the point of sale in order to make tobacco products less attractive and accessible.

Preventing work-related cancer

Our research into the scale and cost of occupational cancers informed policy decisions made by governments around the world and contributed to prevention strategies and support made available to patients by Macmillan Scotland, the Alliance for Cancer Prevention, the Cancer Prevention Society and WHO Europe.

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.

Read more

More research themes

Cultures, Communities and Society

Striving to bring communities together in mutually-beneficial ways.

Cultures, Communities and Society

Global Security and Resilience

Providing the world's population with a sustainable way of living. 

Global Security and Resilience

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