• PhD in Philosophy (to be completed on 29 February 2011)
  
• Master of Arts in Philosophy in 2008 (distinction)
• Bachelor of Arts with Honours (first class) in Philosophy in 2006
• Graduate Diploma in Philosophy in 2005 (A+ average)
• Bachelor of Commerce and Administration with Honours in Marketing in 2002

• Weijers, Dan (forthcoming). Intuitive Biases in Judgements about Thought Experiments: The Experience Machine Revisited, Philosophical Writings. Link
• Weijers, Dan (forthcoming - March 2012). We Can Test the Experience Machine: Reply to Smith, Ethical Perspectives, 19(1). Link
• Weijers, Dan (2011). Hedonism, Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Available from: http://www.iep.utm.edu/hedonism/
• Weijers, Dan, (2011). The Experience Machine Objection to Hedonism, in Just the Arguments, Edited by Michael Bruce & Steven Barbone, Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 229-231. Link
• Weijers, Dan (2011). Reality Doesn't Really Matter, in Inception and Philosophy, Edited by D. Kyle Johnson, Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 92-107. Link
• Weijers, Dan (2011). National Accounts of Well-Being: What Should We Put in the Census?, Social Europe Journal, 15 February 2011. Link
  
• Weijers, Dan & Jarden, Aaron (2011). Wipe that Smile Off Your Face, The Philosopher's Magazine, 52: 53-58. Link
• Weijers, Dan, Eng, David & Das, Ramon (2010). Sharing the Responsibility of Dealing with Climate Change: Interpreting the Principle of Common but Differentiated Responsibilities, in Public Policy: Why Ethics Matters, Edited by Jonathan Boston, Andrew Bradstock & David Eng, ANU E Press, pp. 141-158. Link
• Weijers, Dan (2010). A Warning to Policy-Makers: What Exactly is Well-Being Anyway?, Social Europe Journal, 10 September 2010. Link
  
• Turton, Dan (2009). The Real Dirt on Happiness Studies: A Reply to 'The Unhappy thing about Happiness Economics', Real-world Economics Review, 49: 83-89. Link

• Weijers, Dan (2010). Bok, Derek, The Politics of Happiness: What Government Can Learn from the New Research on Well-Being, New Zealand Association of Positive Psychology Newsletter. Link
• Weijers, Dan (2010). Bok, Derek, The Politics of Happiness: What Government Can Learn from the New Research on Well-Being, Metapsychology Online. Link
• Turton, Dan (2010). Hanson, Rick, Buddha's Brain: The Practical neuroscience of Happiness, Love & Wisdom, Metapsychology Online. Link
• Turton, Dan (2009). Kraut, Richard. What is Good and Why: The Ethics of Well-Being, Metapsychology Online. Link
• Turton, Dan (2009). Kringelbach, Morten, The Pleasure Center: Trust Your Animal Instincts, Metapsychology Online. Link
• Turton, Dan (2008). Frey, Bruno, Happiness: A Revolution in Economics, Metapsychology Online. Link
• Turton, Dan (2007). Feldman, Fred, Pleasure and the Good Life: Concerning the Nature, Varieties and Plausibility of Hedonism, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 85(2): 338-340. Link

• Founding co-editor of the International Journal of Wellbeing. Link
• Expert scientific advisor on assessing wellbeing for the wellbeing in healthcare group from the Leiden University Medical Center and Tilburg University
• Member of the editorial review board for the International Journal of Technoethics.
• Peer-reviewer for Ethical Theory and Moral Practice and Philosophical Frontiers.

• Helped Simon Keller and Nick Agar to write a report on the ethics of data mining for the New Zealand Ministry of Social Development, June 2011-February 2012.
• Invited to present on 'Wellbeing and Measures of Subjective Wellbeing' to the wellbeing group at Statistics New Zealand, December 2011. Link
  
• Advised the New Zealand Treasury wellbeing group on their Living Standards Framework, 2010-2011. Link
  

• Invited to give a 45 minute talk on wellbeing to Statistics New Zealand, December 2011.
  
• Invited to give a 90-minute talk entitled The Problem with Happiness to the Café Scientifique series in Lower Hutt, September 2010.
• Published a letter in The Dominion Post about labour law reform and happiness in July 2010. Link
• Interviewed for a lead article in www.stuff.co.nz on tertiary education policy in July 2010. Link
• My letter to The Listener (see below) was quoted on Radio New Zealand in April 2010. Link
• Published a letter in The Listener about positivity and wellbeing in April 2010 (Volume 223, No. 3647. Link
• Gave a public lecture series on happiness through Victoria University of Wellington in October-November 2009. Link
• Co-hosted the philosophical radio programme The Meaning of Life on Human FM in February-May 2009
• Interviewed for an article in The Daily News on happiness and the recession in February 2009. Link
• Co-wrote the article: Weijers, Linda & Turton, Dan (2008). Would You Torture for Profit?, Salient, Issue 6 (7 April): 36. Link
• Interviewed for the radio programme Vivat Academia on Human FM about my research, philosophy in general, and how I got involved in October 2008
• Interviewed for the Victorian Theses feature of Salient in February 2008. Link

• Invited to attend the April 2012 'High-Level Meeting of the UN General Assembly on Happiness and Wellbeing: A New Economic Paradigm' by the Prime Minister of Bhutan
  
• Named on 2 successful external funding grants to support the operations of the International Journal of Wellbeing (for 2011 and 2012)
  
• Received 4 Victoria University of Wellington Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences research grants (for 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011)
• Interviewed for, or featured in, 11 public media articles and programmes. Link
  
• Director of a company, GROW International, which makes online wellbeing assessments and reports. Link
  
• Board member of a charitable organisation, GROW Foundation, which funds open access wellbeing research
  
• Official collaborator in the International Wellbeing Study (Philosophy cohort). Link
• Achieved excellent lecturing evaluations, including several near-perfect scores from large 1^st year classes. Link
• Awarded four Victoria University of Wellington prizes from 2005-2008. Link
• Featured as the ‘face of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences’ in the 2011 handbook. Link
• Co-hosted the philosophical radio programme The Meaning of Life on Human FM in February-May 2009
• Organised the Philosophy Student Seminar Series at Victoria University of Wellington for two years
• Organised the Philosophy Student Retreat at Victoria University of Wellington for three years
• Set up and coordinated the inaugural Campus Coaches peer support programme at Victoria University of Wellington in 2007
• Fulfilled various roles for Youthline Wellington Inc. (a telephone counselling service for youth) from 2000-2007, including Deputy Chair, Supervisor, Trainer, and Telephone Counsellor

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