Dr Neil Thin
Senior Lecturer
Social Anthropology
The University of Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Biography
Dr Neil Thin Senior Lecturer, Social Anthropology; Deputy Director of the Undergraduate School (Progression and Student Experience) Neil Thin specialises in appreciative social planning, i.e. engaging multidisciplinary happiness and wellbeing scholarship in public policy and practice. To this end, he is currently (2015) a part-time Parliamentary Fellow in the Scottish Parliament. He also has over 20 years of practical and policy experience working towards the reduction of poverty and promotion of justice and wellbeing in poorer countries, working at all levels from grassroots to governmental and international official agencies.
Research Interest
happiness, wellbeing poverty and education social quality, social progress policy and planning civil society
Publications
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2017 [with Aaron Ahuvia, Dan Haybron, Robert Biswas-Diener, & Jean Timsit] 'Desirability of sustainable happiness as a guide for public policy.' Ch. 3 in Centre for Bhutan Studies and GNH, Happiness: Transforming the Development Landscape http://www.bhutanstudies.org.bt/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Happiness-transform_Final_with-cover.pdf
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Forthcoming 2017 [with Katherine Brookfield and Iain Scott] ‘Outdoor mobility and promoting physical activity among older people’ In The Palgrave Handbook of Ageing and Physical Activity Promotion, ed. Nyman and Musselwhite
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Forthcoming 2017 ‘Qualitative approaches to culture and happiness’. In E.Diener, S.Oishi, and L.Tay [eds], Handbook of Wellbeing. Noba Scholar www.nobascholar.com
