
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 Open University of Catalonia
Proyectos
MILEN – Environmental change and sustainable energy
Publicaciones recientes:
- 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.
• Guillen-Royo, M., Velazco J. (2011) ‘Happy villages and unhappy slums? understanding happiness determinants in Peru’. In Selin H. (Ed.) Happiness Across Cultures. Springer. Forthcoming in 2012.
• Guillen-Royo, M. (2011) ‘A review of ‘Sustainable Development:Capabilities, Needs and Well-being‘ by Felix Rauschmayer, Ines Omann and Johannes Frühmann (Eds) . Applied Research in Quality of Life, forthcoming.
• Guillen-Royo, M. (2011) ‘Reference group consumption and the subjective wellbeing of the poor in Peru’. Journal of Economic Psychology, 32, 259–272.
• Guillen-Royo, M. (2010) ‘Realising the “wellbeing dividend”: an exploratory study using the Human-Scale Development approach‘. Ecological Economics, 70, 384-393.
- Camfield, L. Guillen-Royo, M Velazco, J. (2009) ‘Does needs satisfaction matter for psychological and subjective wellbeing in developing countries: A mixed-methods illustration from Bangladesh and Thailand’. Journal of Happiness Research, 11, 4, 497-516.
- Copestake, J. Guillen-Royo, M. Chou W-J., M. Hinks, T. and Velazco, J. (2009) ‘The Relationship Between Economic and Subjective Wellbeing Indicators in Peru’. Applied Research in Quality of Life, 4 (2), 155-177.
- Camfield, L. Guillen-Royo, M. (2009) ‘Wants, needs, satisfactions’. Social Indicators Research, 96, 2, 183-203.
- Guillen-Royo, M. (2008) ‘Consumption and subjective wellbeing: Exploring basic needs, social comparison, social integration and hedonism in Peru’. Social Indicators Research, 89, 535-555.
- 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.
- Guillén-Royo, M. (2008) ‘Basic needs and expenditure on health care in a shanty town of Lima’. Research in Economic Anthropology, 26.
- Guillén-Royo, M. (2007) ‘Well-being and consumption: towards a theoretical approach based on human need satisfaction’ in Bruni. L. (ed.) Handbook on happiness in Economics. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
- Guillén-Royo, M. and Velazco, J. (2006) ‘Exploring the relationship between happiness, objective and subjective well-being: Evidence from rural Thailand’ WeD Working Paper 16 University of Bath.


