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From Netflix to jigsaws, what makes you smile?

From Netflix to jigsaws, what makes you smile?

Laura Thompson looks at different ways students have been finding happiness over lockdown and this first semester at university
Citizen science project aims to unpick ‘Secrets of Happiness’

Citizen science project aims to unpick ‘Secrets of Happiness’

University of Manchester clinical psychologist, Dr Sara Tai, has started a new collaborative project to unpick what happiness is

Unhappy Manny?

A recent report by the Office of National Statistics has found Manchester to be one of the saddest and most anxious places in the UK — is there anything that can be done?

How to measure a nation

Should we look at more than just GDP when judging success? Tristan Parsons examines other ways to measure how good a society is

“I’m not grumpy, I’ve got chocolate in my teeth”

“We didn’t have chocolate like we have now: here, there, everywhere in abundance”—so what sufficed was this little tryst of chocolate and sweetener, taken on the sly from the cupboard

University of Manchester students happiest since 2005, says NSS

83% of students at University of Manchester ‘satisfied’ – up 4% from last year