Mental Capital and Wellbeing

Cary L. Cooper, CBE is Distinguished Professor of Organizational Psychology and Health and Pro Vice Chancellor at Lancaster University. He is the author of over 100 books (on occupational stress, women at work and industrial and organizational psychology), has written over 400 scholarly articles for academic journals, and is a frequent contributor to national newspapers, TV and radio. Cary is the Editor on the international journal ‘Stress and Health’ and President of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy.

Usha Goswami is Professor of Education at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge. She is currently engaged in setting up a Centre for Neuroscience in Education at the Faculty. She advised on the National Curriculum and the National Literacy Project, and was one of the three UK members of the Managing Committee of the European Concerted Action on Learning Disorders as a Barrier to Human Development (COST-A8).

Barbara J Sahakian is Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine. She has an international reputation in the fields of cognitive psychopharmacology, neuroethics, neuropsychology, neuropsychiatry and neuroimaging.

John Field is Professor in the Institute of Education, University of Stirling, where he directs the Centre for Research in Lifelong Learning. He has written widely in the social sciences, and specialises on social and economic aspects of adult learning.

Rachel Jenkins is Professor of Epidemiology and International Mental Health Policy at the Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London. She is the author of over 30 books and 300 scholarly articles, and works nationally and internationally on epidemiological and policy research, development and implementation of policy, and training primary care in low and middle income countries.