{"id":125,"date":"2013-11-07T11:27:19","date_gmt":"2013-11-07T11:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/?p=125"},"modified":"2015-04-22T11:07:04","modified_gmt":"2015-04-22T10:07:04","slug":"university-helps-kent-school-children-research-and-evaluate-happiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/2013\/11\/07\/university-helps-kent-school-children-research-and-evaluate-happiness\/","title":{"rendered":"University helps Kent school children research and evaluate happiness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Children in three Kent primary schools are this week (4-8 November) finding out how to investigate what makes them happy as part of a University project to help them develop research skills.<\/p>\n<p>The project, entitled How to make a happy school, is being run by Dr Lindsey Cameron, of the University&#8217;s School of Psychology. It is taking place during national Festival of Social Science week, organised annually by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).<\/p>\n<p>The Kent project started with around 113 children from the three primary schools learning about why happiness is important &#8211; and how scientists measure it &#8211; at a workshop at the University&#8217;s Canterbury campus.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, see the full <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/newsarchive\/news\/stories\/kent_school_children_research_and_evaluate_their_own_happiness\/2013.html\">press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Children in three Kent primary schools are this week (4-8 November) finding out how to investigate what makes them happy as part of a University &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/2013\/11\/07\/university-helps-kent-school-children-research-and-evaluate-happiness\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14802,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[140631,3684,70],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14802"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions\/177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}