Catriona Dickson

Senior Data Technician Cardiff University

DicksonC5@cardiff.ac.uk 2920875386

Katie is responsible for providing technical support for the Institute. As well as assisting with the data integration and management programme and in particular the development of the WISERD Data Portal. Other responsibilities include hardware support and the upkeep and development of the institute website and database.

Katie is currently working towards an MSc in Data Science.

Catriona Dickson Bio

Continuity of learning in Wales: ‘Live’ analysis of digital learning

Summary Wales is unique in having a national digital platform for online teaching and learning – Hwb (https://hwb.gov.wales/). This means that all children in maintained schools in Wales login to and use Hwb to access learning materials provided to them by schools and teachers. This project will have unique access to data collected via Hwb…

Research Team: Catriona Dickson (Cardiff University), Chris Taylor (Cardiff University), Jennifer May Hampton (Cardiff University), Rhys Davies (Cardiff University), Samuel Jones (Cardiff University)

Understanding Welsh Places

Overview Understanding Welsh Places is a website that aims to be the first point of call for statistical information about towns and communities in Wales. A significant proportion of people in Wales live in towns and small communities. Too often, however, such places are overlooked by public policy. While targeted funding exists for city regions and rural…

Research Team: Catriona Dickson (Cardiff University), Ian Harvey (Cardiff University), Samuel Jones (Cardiff University), Scott Orford (Cardiff University)

Operationalising Labour Rights: Access to Remedy at the Workplace

The research investigates workplace the grievances of garment workers employed in factories in the city of Bangalore, south India. Specifically it examines access to remedy at the workplace, and seeks to illuminate local conditions against the backdrop of national and international forms of regulation.

Research Team: Catriona Dickson (Cardiff University), Helen Blakely (Cardiff University), Jean Jenkins (Cardiff University), Rhys Davies (Cardiff University), Sonia De Saxe (Cardiff University)

Operationalising Labour Rights ESRC GCRF

This is an international research project funded by the ESRC under the remit of the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF). It is a collaboration between researchers at Cardiff Business School and WISERD and our partners at Cividep-India. The research is distinctive in being a longitudinal, workplace-centred study of access to remedy at the grass roots…

Research Team: Catriona Dickson (Cardiff University), Helen Blakely (Cardiff University), Jean Jenkins (Cardiff University), Rhys Davies (Cardiff University)

Other

WISERD Data Portal User Guide

A complete user guide for the Data Portal website.

Data & Methods | WISERD DataPortal | January 2013

News

A decade after deadly Ali Enterprises fire, Pakistan’s garment workers report shocking lack of fire exits

19th July 2022 | Catriona Dickson, Helen Blakely, Jean Jenkins, Rhys Davies

New research from the Clean Clothes Campaign and WISERD at Cardiff University reveals the urgent need for expansion of the International Accord in Pakistan, a legally binding safety agreement to protect workers. 2022 marks 10 years since the horrific Ali Enterprises fire that killed over 250 garment workers in Pakistan yet rights for workers in…

Data & Methods, Inequalities, Work and Labour Markets | Operationalising Labour Rights ESRC GCRF

Blog

Understanding Welsh Places: Filling the evidence gap for places in Wales

26th October 2021 | Catriona Dickson, Samuel Jones, Scott Orford

A shortage of robust, nationally consistent evidence at a town level has been a longstanding problem in the UK. Without evidence it is difficult for town stakeholders, such as planners, town councils, third sector organisations and community groups, to determine local needs, evaluate the effectiveness of town management strategies and to learn from past success….

Data & Methods, Localities | Understanding Welsh Places

News

Welsh towns receive boost for grassroots planning

9th October 2019 | Catriona Dickson, Ian Harvey, Samuel Jones, Scott Orford

People working and volunteering in Welsh towns and communities will benefit from a new resource to help them identify opportunities in their areas. Understanding Welsh Places is a bilingual website built by a team of researchers at WISERD and coordinated by the Institute of Welsh Affairs. It presents information on the economy, demographic make-up and…

Civil Society, Data & Methods, Localities | Understanding Welsh Places

WISERD Online Lunchtime Seminar

Investigating the spatial inter-relationships of place dependency in Wales

19th October 2021

Presented by Sam Jones, Katie Dickson and Scott Orford. This presentation introduces work investigating place dependency and resilience in Wales, demonstrating how towns and cities can be classified using a set of metrics, developed as part of the Understanding Welsh Places project, on how dependent or independent they are on neighbouring places across a series…

Training Workshop

NCRM training- Using UK data portals to find and evaluate data for social science research

27th January 2021

Delivered by Scott Orford, Samuel Jones and Katie Dickson Data are a key resource for research and datasets are increasingly being shared for reuse by others as secondary data. However, as more secondary data are made available online finding the most relevant data for your research can be difficult. This event will guide participants through…

Training

Using the WISERD DataPortal as a data discovery tool for research

3rd July 2019 | Aberystwyth

The WISERD DataPortal is a web application that enhances a researcher’s ability to search, discover, map and download socio-economic research data related to Wales. In this session we will demonstrate how the main functions of the WISERD DataPortal can be used to find and map existing data which are relevant to a research project or…

Training

WISERD TCB: Using the WISERD DataPortal as a data discovery tool for research

14th May 2019 | Bangor

This half-day workshop will introduce the WISERD DataPortal – a free tool to help researchers find and access data related to Wales. The training is for post-graduate students, researchers or professional practitioners, such as policy makers or third sector workers. The DataPortal allows users to discover and visualise (in the form of maps) data from a wide variety…

Workshop

ESRC Festival of Social Science 2018: Using the WISERD DataPortal for Civil Society Research

6th November 2018 | Cardiff

The event will introduce WISERD’s free data mapping and data search and discovery tool, the WISERD DataPortal. The DataPortal allows users to discover social, demographic and economic data relating to Wales. This includes data from a variety of sources, such as the Office for National Statistics and Welsh Government, and disciplines, such as health, education,…

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