Meetings
Call for papers: BeWell 2025
We are pleased to invite you to our sixth meeting dedicated to research on well-being.
Dates: 24th-25th February 2025
Location: Freie Universität Berlin*
This year’s keynote lecture is presented by Andrew Clark (Paris School of Economics).
There will also be open sessions to which you may submit your contribution in any area of well-being research. Our interdisciplinary meeting usually features contributions form psychologists, economists and sociologists.
Please submit your abstract of no more than 150 words by 15th November 2024. We will in-form you within three weeks after this deadline about the outcome of your submission.
If you plan to participate without presenting a paper, please let us know by 15th December 2024.
You may use our registration form (link) in both cases. For any inquiries, please send an email to bewell@wiwiss.fu-berlin.de.
You may find current information on our events on our BeWell website (link) and by subscribing to our newsletter (link).
*Link to our venue: Henry-Ford-Bau, Garystraße 35, 14195 Berlin
Past Meetings
Members of our network usually get together on an annual basis to discuss their latest research and new ideas. In the following, you can find some information to each of our meetings thus far.
Our fifth annual meeting went on the road to Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg where we met for two days at the beginning of March 2024. Our distinguished keynote speaker Anne Reitz (University of Greifswald) gave an inspiring speech on the development of well-being across life and its connection to various life events. Our five parallel sessions featured presentations on important topics such internal migration and immigration, health, current methodological challenges and many more.
Our fourth annual meeting was held at the end of February at Freie Universität Berlin. Our distinguished keynote speaker Bruno Frey (CREMA) provided a thought provoking display on what role well-being research should play for policy making. In our four parallel sessions young and senior researchers shared their current projects with an international audience and engaged in interesting and constructive discussions. The sessions featured presentations on important topics such as unemployment, social comparisons, time use, status competition and methodological advances.
Keynote by Alois Stutzer
Participating members
In 2022, members of BeWell met for the first time in-person since the beginning of the pandemic. The meeting in honor of Ronnie Schöb was held at Leucorea in Lutherstadt-Wittenberg. In his keynote, Alois Stutzer presented his work joint work with Reto Odermatt on people's systematic prediction errors in their evaluation of future well-being and consequences for individual welfare. In our parallel sessions, we discussed novel measures of well-being, the effect of the pandemic and various topics on well-being and public policy.
Our meeting was recognized by the local media where Clemens Hetschko gave an interview on the general scope of well-being research.
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic our second meeting had to be postponed to 2021 and was organized as a series of weekly online sessions at the beginning of the year. It featured interesting talks on the impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Well-being, the value of household work and the causal effect of emotions on anti-immigration sentiments, amongst others.
In 2019, soon-to-be members of BeWell met for the first time at Freie Universität to exchange their work and ideas on well-being research across disciplines. The presentations investigated how subjective well-being is related to unemployment, overeducation, age and green self-image amongst others. The great success of our first meeting was reflected in the official founding of the Berlin Network of Research on Well-Being in 2020.