INTRODUCTION:
The Universal Wellbeing Model (UWM) emerged from a fifteen-year wellbeing research programme. Initially the research aimed to improve higher education programme completions through holistic Pastoral Care/Health/Wellbeing supports. Initially the effectiveness of two different indigenous models were investigated in separate projects with data being gathered and triangulated from higher education students, teacher/researchers, and pastoral care/wellbeing practitioners and clinicians. Both intended, and unintended outcomes from a summative Case Study Impact Evaluation assessing the overall value, and impact of participant experiences in the above investigations however pivoted the research programme toward the following questions: what is wellbeing, how it is influenced, how wellbeing can be improved over time, and how wellbeing can be measured.

METHODS:
The research programme has employed: themed literature and theoretical reviews, quantitative, qualitative, multi-phased mixed, practice-based, grounded theory, appreciative inquiry, and impact evaluation methods. Analytical methods have included: Cronbach Alpha for quantitative data, thematic analyses for qualitative data, and alignment, testability and logic analyses for theoretical data.

RESULTS:
Emerging from the research programme was a new evidence-based, and authentically holistic Universal Wellbeing Model, definition of Universal Wellbeing and identification of seventy Determinants of Universal Wellbeing. Also emerging have been new complexities, challenges, and ethical dilemmas for those providing pastoral care, health, and wellbeing supports in diverse settings globally.

CONCLUSIONS:
The conclusion the researchers reached is that evidence-based Universal Wellbeing includes four components, Sensory Impacts, Social, Physical, Intellectual Ethnic, Cultural, Emotional, and Spiritual Dimensions, seventy Determinants of Universal Wellbeing and five overarching Principles. New practice advances emerging from the UWM are now being implemented in education, health, business, and other settings. The UWM disrupts conventional public health models by re-focussing on empowering individuals, and primordial prevention Universal Wellbeing. Subsequentially a digitised Universal Wellbeing Evaluation Tool (UWET) has been developed and will be shared in an associated workshop.