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International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies (ISQOLS)
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Brief ISQOLS News:
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11/9/2009: Reminder of Call for Papers
This is a
call for papers for the Research Committee "Social Indicators" at the upcoming ISA
WOrld Congress in Gothenburg, Sweden, in 2010. The program covers 8 sessions by
RC 55, including a business meeting and 4 joint sessions.
The deadline for proposals is November 30, 2009.
For more information, including submission details,
visit the website.
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11/2/2009: Applied Research in Quality of Life,
Volume 4 Number 3
Volume 4 Number
3 of Applied Research in Quality of Life is now available.
To view this issue's table of contents,
click here.
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11/2/2009: New QOL Book - "Quality of Life: Nomadological
Insights"
A Nomadic
Exploration of Quality of Life in Long Term Conditions
By Monique Lhussier
To view synopsis and ordering information,
click here.
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11/2/2009: "Affluence, Feelings of Stress, and
Well-Being" article suggested by ISQOLS member Michael B. Frisch
Ed Diener, Ng Weiting and their colleagues
have just published an article on Affluence, Feelings of Stress, and Well-Being
based on
Gallup
data on over 125, 000 people from 121 countries.
The article
is a great roadmap for future research in many other areas as well.
For example, on an individual level, wealthy countries are
rich in happiness, but also in stress, presumably from our hectic lifestyle which
gives precious little time to stop and smell the roses, or admire the color purple
in a field of flowers-from Alice Waters' The Color Purple. Tim Kasser's idea of
time affluence emerges as an all too precious commodity in light of these findings. The authors also suggest further study
of the effects of stress on the quality of our lives.
Interestingly,
and thankfully, from a research perspective, negative affect is discriminable from
the concept of stress.
Reference:
Weiting,
Diener, Raksha and Harter (2009), Affluence, Feelings of Stress, and Well-Being,
Social Indicators Research, 94(2), pp. 257-271.
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11/2/2009: "Good hourly wage may pay off in happiness:
researcher" Article
Byline: Shannon
Proudfoot
October 19, 2009
Canwest News Service
To read article,
click here.
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11/2/2009: QOL-Related Article
"Is It a Day
to Be Happy? Check the Index"
Facebook has a happiness index drawn from posts.
By Noam Cohen
October 11, 2009
The New York Times
To read article,
click here.
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9/28/2009: Call for Chapters
Special Volume
on Community Quality-of-Life Indicators: Best Practices V (Published by Springer
in the new "Best Practices in Quality-of-Life Research Book Series")
Submission deadline: December 31, 2009
For more details and submission and contact information,
click here.
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10/19/2009: September 2009 issue of Newsletter
on "Measuring the Progress of Societies"
In this issue: Ecological Footprint Accounting;
Measuring the Progress of Communities: Switzerland moves on!; The Global Social
Change Research Project; Supreme Audit Institutions application of progress measurement;
Key National Indicators; Liveability audit in regional Queensland, Australia
Highlights: 3rd OECD World Forum, Busan, Korea, October 27-30, 2009. Global Project
on "Measuring the Progress of Societies"
To view, click here.
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10/18/2009: QOL-Related Article
"Q&A: 'Stiglitz-Sen Moving in the Right
Direction, but Slowly'"
Miren Gutierrez interviews Hazel Henderson
September 18, 2009, Rome
To read,
click here.
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10/18/2009: Call for Papers for Sixth International
Young Scholar German Socio-Economic Panel Symposium
The symposium
provides an opportunity for doctoral students of all disciplines at any stage of
their doctoral thesis to present empirical research in progress- carried out with
panel data (especially SOEP data)- and to discuss theoretical, conceptual and empirical
issues with senior researchers.
The symposium will take place March 4-5, 2010, in Delmenhorst (Bremen), Germany.
Abstract submission deadline: November 20, 2009
For more details and submission and contact information,
click here.
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9/28/2009: New volume of the Social Indicators
Research Book Series in development
The focus of this volume will be Subjective
Well-being and Security. Proposals should be submitted by October 31st, 2009.
For more details and submission and contact information,
click here.
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9/28/2009: International Society for Child Indicators
Newsletter
The September 2009 issue of the ISCI newsletter
is now available.
To view the newsletter,
click here.
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9/21/2009: France encourages new measures for assessing
country's well-being
French President Nicolas Sarkozy, utilizing a commissioned report, urges a change
in the measurements and research methods used to determine national well-being and
wealth- one that includes quality of life factors.
To see multiple articles on the news,
click here.
To access the full report text,
click here.
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9/13/2009: New Book Series: Handbooks of Quality-of-Life
Research
This is a new book series published by
Springer in cooperation with ISQOLS. It builds in the first and forthcoming handbook
of QOL research edited by ISQOLS member Ken Land (Duke University).
To view more information on the series,
click here.
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8/30/2009: The Happy
Planet Index
nef (the new economics foundation) recently
announced the releae of the Happy Planet Index, the second global ranking of the
ecological efficiency with which the world's nations deliver long and happy lives
for the people who live there.
For example, the Index reports that Latin America tops the list with Costa Rica
as the "greenest and happiest" country. Nine of the ten highest-scoring nations
are Latin American.
To read more from the report,
visit their website. |
MARY JOYCE SCHOLARSHIP FUND
To honor the memory and life’s work of Dr. Joyce, at an ISQOLS board meeting
held in San Diego on December 10, 2007, the board voted unanimously to establish
the Mary Joyce Scholarship Award. This competitive scholarship will be a bi-annual
award recognizing a young, female scholar from a developing country for work in the
quality of life area. The recipient will receive a cash stipend covering the cost
of travel to and attendance at the ISQOLS international conference, as well as
award recognition at the conference banquet.
To learn more about Mary Joyce, please take the time to read this article.
If you would like to donate to the Mary Joyce Scholarship Fund please follow
this link for details.
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