Centre for Urban Wellbeing Away day

Find out more about how our research activities on imagining wellbeing, wellbeing economies, community, policy and power, sustainable cities and community health can kick start your best research ideas.

• 10:00 Director’s welcome
• 10:15 Theme Lead presentations: key research findings at CUWb 2020-25
• 11: 00 Digital Wellbeing: Meet the authors: Celebrate the book launch of Healthy Users. The Governance of Well-Being on Social Media (published May 2025) by Dr Niall Docherty (Lecturer in Data, AI and Society, University of Sheffield), in conversation with Dr Dorothy Butchard (Lecturer in Contemporary Literature and Digital Cultures, University of Birmingham), currently writing on digital anxiety.
• 12:00 Lunch
• 13:00 Research pitches: germinate your working ideas on urban wellbeing research, and get feedback and input on seed funding opportunities, external partners and interdisciplinary perspectives
• 14:00 End

Host or Publisher Tom Lingard, University of Birmingham