Background & History

Our approach to well-being is based on a 4-year long study at Copenhagen Business School (CBS), providing interviews as well as collaborative learning and creative exercises that was then processed through exploratory inquiry and problem analysis. The work lead to the creation of a host of tools for students and teachers to make use of as well as a manifest that sums up our findings and responses.

The objectives of the research project supports key priorities of the CBS strategy by:

• Supporting CBS in leveraging the Nordic tradition of responsibility to better define the challenges facing our world, and to generate transformative solutions for a better future.
• Including students as a central part of a research project.
• Addressing directly self-reflection, introspection and transformation of the self in relation to a study environment and learning community.
• Having an explicit focus on well-being and the quality of the learning community to create an environment that foster optimal learning abilities and skills for lifelong learning.
• Developing activities and practices across CBS to support individual growth and transformation as well as “relationally” in the culture and greater study environment.

If you want to learn more about how the project contributes to CBS’s strategy, click here.

Rooted in BHL and CBS strategy

With it’s original research initiative, CBS Well-being Lab is rooted in and contributes actively to the BHL vision and CBS strategy.

Pernille Steen Pedersen’s research initiative “Stress prevention and well-being among students at CBS” contributes to CBS’s strategy implementation as well as the BHL vision, as it contributes to a larger societal need. Stress prevention and well-being for students is an important focus area for CBS, but the issue reaches far beyond CBS across the Danish society, and international ones. In Denmark there has been a rise in reported stress among students constituting a social problem that requires attention. Any research that can help provide detailed knowledge and further understanding of how students experience stress thus contributes to a greater societal need.

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Early activities

A central focus of CBS Well-being Lab is transparency through frequent communication about Lab’s research and activities. We believe transparency will keep the network informed and engaged, and can foster a shared understanding and invite new ideas to emerge. Therefore, this site has lots of information, including a detailed Project Log that functioned as a research journal of ongoing activities in the early years of the project. If you are curious about Well-being Lab’s early activities, you can visit our Project Log here. To view our more recent activities, visit Activities.