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The Good Life: What is it, do we have it?
Author(s) -
Homel Ross
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
australian journal of social issues
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.417
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1839-4655
pISSN - 0157-6321
DOI - 10.1002/j.1839-4655.2010.tb00159.x
Subject(s) - citation , publishing , computer science , library science , world wide web , law , political science
The Institute brings together eight Griffith research centres engaged in very different facets of social and behavioural research, but united in their interest in understanding social change and exploring the impact of change on the wellbeing of individuals, families, and local and global communities. Given this theme, the Institute, in partnership with the Queensland Government, has adopted as a signature project the development of the Queensland version of Community Indicators Victoria, which is described in the paper in this volume by Dianne Cox and her colleagues from the McCaughy Centre at the University of Melbourne. Interestingly, although we have tended to adopt a typically pragmatic approach to the concept of ‘wellbeing’ and its measurement in this project and some others, we keep stumbling against some knotty problems.