Measuring Youth Well-being / Children's Well-Being: Indicators and Research Bd.19 (PDF)

the Third Sector for almost 6 years and Higher Education for 9 years. Haridhan is currently working with the Q-Step Team in the Department of Sociology to enhance quantitative skills of undergraduate and postgraduate students under the Q-Step project-a national initiative and investment funded by the Nuffield Foundation, ESRC and HEFCE. He is the Programme Leader for the newly introduced postgraduate programme called MSc in Applied Quantitative Methods. Haridhan has led the curricula development for the MSc and the newly designed BSc in Quantitative Methods in the Department. In addition, he is providing expertise on quantitative methods, research with children and young people, and subjective well-being to two European Commission funded projects: MYPLACE (Memory, Youth, Political Legacy And Civic Engagement) and MYWeB (Measuring Youth Well-Being). Prior to joining MMU, Haridhan worked as a Statistical Researcher in the Research Team of The Children's Society (TCS). Whilst working with TCS, Haridhan led a number of quantitative research projects including two national surveys (2008 and 2010) on children and young people's well-being in England, national survey on adults' attitudes towards children and childhood, evaluation of the national peer-mentoring anti-bullying programme, and survey on professionals' attitudes towards adolescent neglect. Haridhan publishes regularly in international journals and acts as a reviewer for academic journals, publishers, and funding bodies.
Gwyther ReesGwyther is currently Honorary Research Fellow, Social Policy Research Unit, University of York. Prior to this he was Research Director, The Children's Society. Gwyther has a wealth of experience in relation to international surveys of child well-being in particular as a standing member of the central team which manages the International Survey of Children's Well-Being. Gwyther is widely published in the field of child well-being, both in the UK and comparatively. Gwyther was an expert advisor on the MYWeB (Measuring Youth Well-Being) project.
Professor Anita StasulaneAnita is Director of the Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences, Daugavpils University, Daugavpils, Latvia. She is also Editor-in-Chief of "Cultural Studies" since 2008 and a member of a range of journal editorial boards. Anita was team leader on three European Commission funded projects:- Society and Lifestyles: Towards Enhancing Social Harmonisation through Knowledge of Subcultural Communities; MYPLACE (Memory, Youth, Political Legacy And Civic Engagement); MYWeB (Measuring Youth Well-Being).