Hot Topics in Wellbeing Science | Jenna Ong | EAGxAustralia 2023
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Jenna Ong is the co-creator of Insights for Impact, a Youtube channel which works on communicating research insights for positive impact in the form of documentary-style, entertaining and explanatory videos. She was also the co-founder of Effective Altruism Canberra. Wellbeing science has seen rapid development in the last few decades thanks to new data. Researchers in this space are primarily interested in how to reduce suffering and live a good life. Meanwhile the core aim of effective altruism is to reduce suffering and do the most good. Are these two fields talking? Join Jenna for an exploration of measures and models of wellbeing, and current questions that researchers are tackling in this space, towards doing more good for yourself and others!
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