• Thriving Places Index. Working with the Centre for Thriving Places to develop a set of indicators for thriving places for England and Wales, we update the Index annually (2015 – 2021).
• London Prosperity Index. Worked with the London Prosperity Board to help develop their Prosperity Index (2018).
• Santa Monica Wellbeing Index. Worked with RAND Corporation and the City of Santa Monica local government to develop a well-being index for the town in California, and develop tools to ensure its effective use by policy-makers and the public (2013 – 2017).

• What works to improve social capital? Rapid review of the effectiveness of interventions aimed at improving three social capital outcomes (neighbourhood belonging, social support networks and community cohesion). Project for the What Works Centre for Wellbeing, working with Centre for Thriving Places (2022).
• Exploring the effects of social capital on COVID-19 rates at the local level. Working paper based on analysis of Understanding Society Survey data on COVID-19 rates, working with Centre for Thriving Places, and University of Groningen.
• Understanding Thriving Communities. Project for the National Lottery Community Fund to help understand what makes communities thrive. I led analysis of Understanding Society Survey data to identify local level variables that predict a range of indicators of thriving communities (2019)
• What Works Centre for Wellbeing, Communities Evidence Programmes. Major UK government investment in programme to marshal and disseminate robust wellbeing evidence to ensure that it is being used in policy and practice. I led the stakeholder engagement process for the £1m communities evidence programme, to shape the evidence programme and de facto managed the consortium including 10 organisations, and was first author for two papers on wellbeing inequality (2015 – 2017)

• Migrants: speak up! Designed and analysed a survey for recent migrants in Europe, for the European Network Against Racism. The survey covers topics such as experiences in the labour market, housing, wellbeing and crime. It is innovative in using Facebook advertising to reach respondents (2017).
• Making Well-Being Count for Policy. Co-Investigator on ESRC funded project working with City University and the University of Cambridge. We analysed data from the first six rounds of the European Social Survey, and ran three seminars bringing together policy makers and academics to explore the findings. The final report was called Looking through the Wellbeing Kaleidoscope (2015-2016)
• Quality of life in Europe: Subjective well-being. Contracted by Eurofound, to analyse the results of the 3^rd European Quality of Life Survey and write a report based on the results. The report has been widely disseminated, and analyses from it have been included in DG EMPL outputs (2012-2013)
• Analysis, implementation and dissemination of well-being indicators, Eurostat. I was the wellbeing expert and led on a review of the risk of cultural biases affecting subjective well-being measurement, a literature review on the drivers of well-being at the individual level, and an analysis of inequalities and disparities in well-being (2012-2013).
• Wellbeing Patterns Uncovered. Report based on analyses of the first round of the ONS Annual Population Survey to contain wellbeing data. I led the project, involving data analysis and the selection of policy-relevant findings for a report (2012)
• National Accounts of Well-Being. The first extensive comparison of well-being across Europe, based on data from the European Social Survey (2008-2009)
• Ways to Well-being: Exploring the links between children’s activities and their subjective well-being. Report prepared in collaboration with the Children’s Society (2014)

Green grin-o-meter. Ran a series of workshops with primary school children in South Wales on the theme of sustainable wellbeing. Based on the workshops, we developed on an online survey to measure their sustainable wellbeing and provide feedback and ideas (unfortunately the website is now offline) (2010)

• COVID WIRED– Covid Wellbeing Inequalities Research Dashboard. Developed for What Works Wellbeing, a dashboard for understanding the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on wellbeing and inequalities in wellbeing (2021)
• Wellbeing in the pandemic – Analysis of the UK Annual Population Survey wellbeing data to inform a series of blogs on the What Works Wellbeing website (2021)

• The Science of a Happy Home.Analysis and advice for a report published by the architecture practice Resi on factors contributing to home satisfaction (2019).
• BRAINPOoL(Bringing Alternative Indicators into Policy). Project funded by the EU FP7 funding stream to explore the barriers to, and opportunities for, the use of Beyond GDP indicators in policy. I helped organise a series of case studies looking at the use of Beyond GDP indicators in particular policy settings. (2011-2014)
• The costs of loneliness to UK employers. Report commissioned by the Co-op (2017).
• Hands on communities. Report commissioned by B&Q to understand the potential wellbeing benefits of DIY (2014)
• Well-being at work: A review of the literature (2014).
• Well-being and transport: Taking stock and looking forward. Peer-reviewed paper in Transport reviews (2013).
• Estimating worldwide life satisfaction. Peer reviewed paper in Ecological Economics (2008)