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.
Research Spotlights
The Daily Mile
Our research showed that a simple local solution could improve the fitness of school pupils. Now 10,000+ schools have adopted The Daily Mile approach.
Dementia and ageing research
We find innovative solutions to the challenges of ageing and dementia that are enabling older people to live independent lives, for longer.
Tackling tobacco
Find out how our work to make tobacco products less attractive is helping to tackle one of society’s biggest health problems.
Tackling depression, suicide and other psychiatric emergencies
Our research seeks to explore new ways in which free mental health awareness and intervention can create positive outcomes and new care pathways for patients struggling with depression or at risk of suicide.
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.
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.