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Paul Cheshire discusses housing affordability and need to build new housing. This interview was broadcast by BBC South on November 6, 2014 (no link available) Also on: BBC Radio Oxford Related links Paul Ches... Read more...
06 November 2014
The project cites Thrive: The Power of Evidence-Based Psychological Therapies – the latest work by Richard Layard, co-authored with David Clark, professor of psychology at Oxford University. Mr Layard is credited as on... Read more...
22 August 2014
The lost productivity and direct health expenses have an economic cost; in a recent analysis for the Mental Health Commission of Canada, the value was pegged at $50-billion a year. Labour economist Richard Layard argues ... Read more...
15 August 2014
The economist Richard Layard, after advocating that the goal of public policy should be to maximise happiness, set out to learn what the greatest impediment to happiness was today. His conclusion: depression. Depression ... Read more...
''I've been hugely influenced by my co-author David Clark, one of the world's leading clinical psychologists. He always stressed to me that the aim of therapy is not to help people manage their condition but to recover a... Read more...
14 July 2014
In an interview with Joel Suss, editor of the British Politics and Policy blog, Richard Layard discusses the importance of combating mental illness and his new book, Thrive: The Power of Evidence-Based Psychological Ther... Read more...
10 July 2014
Ultimately the biggest task remains ensuring our creaking health service is more responsive to the needs of mental health outpatients. And here there may be cause for cautious optimism. Because new research by Professo... Read more...
07 July 2014