To help us shape our vision of what human flourishing might look like – and how we might get there – on the 6^th June 2023, we invited artists, practitioners, community organisations, policy makers and academics into a shared space for a series of lectures, discussions, and creative exercises to examine a number of key questions:

• How do different disciplines – both inside and outside academia – understand human flourishing?
• What does it mean to promote human flourishing?
• What role might research and knowledge exchange have in developing our understanding of and interventions around human flourishing?

As our co-director Dr Autumn Roesch-Marsh put it at the event, central to all of this is a question about “playfulness and joy”; about how research can be fun, and how we can meet people where they are.

We were thrilled to hear from Professor Andrew Sayer, poet John Glenday, former CEO of the Grassmarket Community Project Jonny Kinross, and Christina McMellon and Isla Jamieson-MacKenzie from the TRIUMPH network as speakers at the event.

You can read our full write up of the event here.