{"id":15,"date":"2013-04-26T12:56:02","date_gmt":"2013-04-26T12:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aspotlightonleadershipandchange.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/26\/leah-tomkins-its-all-about-the-experience-of-happiness\/"},"modified":"2013-04-26T12:56:02","modified_gmt":"2013-04-26T12:56:02","slug":"leah-tomkins-its-all-about-the-experience-of-happiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/leadership-and-change\/leah-tomkins-its-all-about-the-experience-of-happiness\/","title":{"rendered":"Leah Tomkins &#8211; it&#8217;s all about the experience of happiness! :)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>This project is a collaboration with Virginia Eatough and Zoe Boden at Birkbeck, University of London.\u00a0 We are interested in what it is like to feel\u00a0happy\u00a0&#8211; both in terms of its felt, embodied sense and in terms of the way it is thematised.\u00a0 The former aspect dovetails with our phenomenological interest in first-person experience.\u00a0\u00a0The\u00a0latter aspect is particularly applicable to\u00a0critical organisational studies, because it\u00a0suggests ways in which the experience of happiness is &#8211; and\u00a0is not &#8211; captured in\u00a0organisational categories such as &#8216;well-being&#8217;, &#8216;morale&#8217;,\u00a0&#8216;commitment&#8217;, &#8216;satisfaction&#8217;, etc.\u00a0 Virginia is a well-known figure in the\u00a0phenomenology of emotions field, and has discussed our preliminary findings on radio within the context of David Cameron&#8217;s desire to measure the nation&#8217;s happiness!\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 This project is a collaboration with Virginia Eatough and Zoe Boden at Birkbeck, University of London.\u00a0 We are interested in what it is like to feel\u00a0happy\u00a0&#8211; both in terms of its felt, embodied sense and in terms of the way it is thematised.\u00a0 The former aspect dovetails with our phenomenological interest in first-person experience.\u00a0\u00a0The\u00a0latter &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/leadership-and-change\/leah-tomkins-its-all-about-the-experience-of-happiness\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Leah Tomkins &#8211; it&#8217;s all about the experience of happiness! :)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/leadership-and-change\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/leadership-and-change\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/leadership-and-change\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/leadership-and-change\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/leadership-and-change\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/leadership-and-change\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/leadership-and-change\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/leadership-and-change\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/leadership-and-change\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}