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Mònica Guillén-Royo

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Senior Researcher, Centre for Development and the Environment (SUM)

University of Oslo, Norway

Visiting Fellow, Department of Social and Policy Sciences, University of Bath, UK.


Part-time Lecturer at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya

Research Interests

My research is inter-disciplinary and draws on mixed methods to study issues related to human wellbeing and consumption. My main areas of research are: basic needs, the link between consumption and happiness, materialism, globalisation processes and the spread of consumerism. I am particularly interested in consumption and wellbeing in developing countries and in contexts of poverty.


As a member of the Wellbeing in Developing Countries, ESRC Research group at the University of Bath from 2003 to 2007 I specialized on the study of consumption and wellbeing in developing countries, particularly in Peru.

My current research interests are associated with participatory methodologies to understand how wellbeing in industrialized countries can be increased through sustainable consumption and contribute to social transformation.

Background

2003- 2007 PhD, Department of Social and Policy Sciences, University of Bath. Thesis title: Consumption and wellbeing: Motives for consumption and needs satisfiers in Peru. Supervisor: Prof. Ian Gough.
2002-2003 MRes in European Social Policy, Department of Social and Policy Sciences, University of Bath
1993-1997 Msc (doctorate courses) in Applied Economics 1997, Autonomous University of Barcelona
1988-1993 Bachelor in Economics 1993, Autonomous University of Barcelona

Projects

MILEN – Environmental change and sustainable energy

Recent publications

  • Guillen-Royo, Monica (2015). Human needs and the environment reconciled: Participatory action-research for sustainable development in Peru, In Karen V Lykke Syse & Martin Lee Mueller (ed.), Sustainable Consumption and the Good Life. Routledge. ISBN 978-1138013001. pp.126 – 145.
  • Guillen-Royo, M.; Velazco-Portocarrero, J. (2012). “Happy villages and Unhappy slums? Understanding Happiness determinants in Peru”. In: Helaine Selin & SG Davey (ed.), Happiness across cultures, p.253 – 270. London, New York, Springer. ISBN 978-94-007-2699-4.
  • Guillén-Royo, M. Velazco, J. Camfield, L. (2010) ‘Happiness in Thailand: Basic needs and wealth in a context of rapid change’. Journal of Happiness Studies, under review.
  • Copestake, J. Guillen-Royo, M. Chou W-J., M. Hinks, T. and Velazco, J. (2008) ‘Exploring the linkages between economic and subjective wellbeing along a Peruvian corridor’in Copestake (ed.) Wellbeing and Development in Peru. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
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