Research staff at the Human Flourishing Program seek to employ some of the most rigorous approaches to quantitative empirical analysis while also integrating this work with scholarship from the humanities. The Program’s work has in fact helped pioneer new methodological approaches and some of these have arisen precisely from engagement with trying to study flourishing more comprehensively (such as outcome-wide studies) or from engagement with humanities scholarship (such as new approaches to measurement). A summary of some of methodological principles and innovations arising out of the Program’s work is described below.
We very much hope that the use of these various rigorous methodologies, and the integrating of insights from the humanities, will help us better understand, and thereby also better promote, human flourishing.