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Happiness Foundation
Research foundation focusing on happiness and wellbeing
- 1-20 employees
- B2C
- Charity
- Social Impact
- Wellbeing
- City Centre, Oxford, UK
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Company mission
Solve happiness and the future of human fulfilment.
Our take
The importance of happiness, wellbeing and fulfilment in peoples' lives has arguably never been more apparent. It is no secret that the COVID-19 pandemic caused great upset amongst the population. People's average wellbeing dropped from a mean average score of 7.7/10 in 2018 to just over 7.2 in 2020, representing the most significant drop in over a decade. Although these scores have been improving since the pandemic has eased, recent years have really shown the importance of wellbeing in society, and there has been a considerable cultural shift towards promoting it in people's lives.
Helping to build this change is the Happiness Foundation. A multidisciplinary, collaborative research foundation, they focus primarily on the use of technology and artificial intelligence to promote happiness, well-being and fulfilment. With their key efforts focused around two sub-groups, the Happiness Think Tank and the Happiness Collective. The Happiness Foundation's key strategy is focused on using technology to bring about their end goal: a "Joy Economy".
Having already partnered and collaborated with the likes of Memesys, the Royal College of Art and the University of Oxford's Future of Humanity Institute, Happiness Collective's key focus going forward will be to expand its footprint in this sector, building more partnerships and expanding its reach.
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Benefits
- Holiday allowance
- Regular team meetups & events
- Health and wellness treatments
Company values
- Thought leadership - become the world’s most forward-looking and prestigious think tank.
- Joy economy - develop methodologies for better measurement of happiness, wellbeing and fulfilment.
- Technology for happiness - develop vision and value-alignment models for future technology product development.
- Real-world impact - translate research outcome into a holistic wellbeing programme for global communities.
Leadership
Dr. Keyun Ruan
(Chair)An economist, computer scientist and author, Keyun has carried out research for the likes of University College Dublin and Airbus Group. They are also the co-founder and ex-CTO of BFC Analytics.