Join us for the next event in a new Series: Te Whare Wānaka o Aoraki Lincoln University Excellence Series. This series has been designed to showcase leadership in various disciplines including the opportunity to promote the University’s distinctive and impactful applied research. This series celebrates research excellence and promotes a public forum to a broader community, highlighting Lincoln University’s specialist land-based contribution to driving New Zealand’s prosperity and intergenerational wellbeing.
The topic of wellbeing is now centre-stage. It has become part of almost every policy discussion. More and more products and services tout their ‘wellbeing benefits’; and, increasingly, individuals seek ways to gain and increase their wellbeing. Psychology has chimed in with its science-based recommendations for improving individual wellbeing (be active; connect; learn; be grateful; find purpose, etc.). Yet, despite this focus and this advice, there’s a glaring paradox.
Around the developed and developing world, people are experiencing increasing rates of ‘ill-being’–and Aotearoa New Zealand is no exception. Global poverty has fallen and life expectancy has increased but so too have rates of stress, anxiety and depression. What is going on – or going wrong?
Is it time to re-think our most basic assumptions about wellbeing - and also about ourselves and our world? Each of us is a person, but what is a person, exactly? And what do we mean by a person’s wellbeing? Can we move towards a world that generates wellbeing ‘naturally’ as part of how we live our daily lives? And what might transitioning to that world mean for our cultures, societies, economies and the rest of nature?
Join us as we hear from Professor Kevin Moore about his latest research insights into how our wellbeing is inseparable from our relationships with each other and with the wider world.
Timings
4.00 pm - Networking and drinks
4.15 pm - Welcome & introduction from LU Vice-Chancellor
4.20 pm - Presentation from Speaker
4.50 pm - Summary
5.00 pm - Networking and questions over drinks and nibbles
5.30pm - Event Ends
About Our Speaker
Professor Kevin Moore
Kevin Moore has taught and researched at Lincoln since 1991 in the areas of tourism, psychology, leisure, and wellbeing. In that time, he has supervised more than 70 postgraduate students and published over 100 peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, sole and co-authored books, and full conference papers, often resulting from major, externally-funded research programmes. His internationally recognised research output includes highly cited work on tourist decision making and experience in premiere tourism journals (e.g., Annals of Tourism Research, Tourism Management, Journal of Travel Research), publications on psychological theory in leading inernational journals (Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Review of General Psychology, Theory and Psychology) and, recently, a sole-authored book titled ‘Wellbeing and Aspirational Culture’ (Palgrave Macmillan). He has also held Associate Editor roles, had invited keynote and seminar presentations, co-edited international books and conference proceedings, and is currently a Behavioral and Brain Sciences Associate and member of the Royal Society Te Apārangi and New Zealand Association of Positive Psychology.
Kevin has also held many leadership roles within the University including Chair Human Ethics Committee, Chair Annual Promotions Committee, Academic Programme Manager, Head of Department, Deputy Divisional Director, Deputy Academic Programme Manager, Convenor of Self-Review Panels for External Programme Reviews, and membership of the Courses Commitee.
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