The final conference of WeD, the ESRC Research Group on Wellbeing in Developing Countries,was held in Bath 28th - 30th June 2007. For details please see the Conference Announcement.

For more conference information

- Abstracts and Papers

- Abstract Book (large pdf file)

- Conference Programme

- Timetable for Parallel Session

- Press release

- Conference final report

- Conference photographs

by Freia Turland

by Sorcha Mahony

External speakers and discussants for plenary sessions included:
Yusuf Bangura - United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, Geneva
Sakiko Fukuda-Parr - Professor of International Affairs, The New School, New York
Barbara Harriss-White - Wolfson College, Oxford
Jill Rutter - Director of Strategy and Sustainable Development, Defra (unable to attend but represented by Isabella Earle and Arik Dondi of the Susatainable Development Unit, Defra)
Avner Offer - Chichele Professor of Economic History, University of Oxford (unable to attend - panel place filled by Nic Marks, New Economics Foundation)
Felicia Huppert - Professor of Psychology, University of Cambridge
Santosh Mehrotra - Planning commission, Government of India
Selim Jahan - Senior Adviser, Strategies and Policies for Poverty Reduction, Poverty Group, UNDP
Luc Christiaensen - Senior Economist, Rural Development East Asia, World Bank

For further information please contact wed@bath.ac.uk