Prosiectau Ymchwil – Sefydliad Ymchwil Cymdeithasol ac Economaidd a Data Cymru

Strong Communities Healthier People

Funding: £343,384.25 This Engagement project will build on a legacy of social science informed community-based research over the last 10 years in two of the Welsh Government’s Communities First Clusters. The aim is to build on these past and current research projects and programmes to develop and pilot a sustainable model of collaborative research, education, engagement,…

Research Team: Eva Elliott (Prifysgol Caerdydd), Gareth Williams (Cardiff Institute of Society, Health and Wellbeing), Ian Rees Jones (Prifysgol Caerdydd), Martin O'Neill (Prifysgol Caerdydd)

Representing Communities: Developing the Creative Power of People to Improve Health and Well-being

Funding: £1.5 million The Project is funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Communities, Cultures, Health and Wellbeing Research Grant. The aim of this project was to establish how community representations produced through creative arts practices (e.g. story-telling, performance, visual art) can be used as forms of evidence to inform health-related policy and service development….

Research Team: Claire Mckechnie-Mason (Glasgow Centre for Population Health), Clare Barker (University of Leeds), Eva Elliott (Prifysgol Caerdydd), Gareth Williams (Cardiff Institute of Society, Health and Wellbeing), Issie MacPhail (University of the Highlands and Islands), Joanna Skelt (University of Birmingham), Pete Seaman (Glasgow Centre for Population Health), Qulsom Frazil (University of Birmingham), Roiyah Saltus (Prifysgol De Cymru)

ESF Leavers Survey

The aim of the European Social Fund (ESF) Leavers’ Survey was to assist in assessing the effectiveness of the 2007-2013 ESF Convergence and Competitiveness Programmes in Wales. The two ESF Operational Programmes (referred to as the Convergence and Competitiveness Programmes) benefiting Wales for the programming period 2007-13 provided just over £1.4 bn1 of investment, with approximately…

Research Team: Gareth Williams (Cardiff Institute of Society, Health and Wellbeing), Gerald Makepeace (Prifysgol Caerdydd), Mark Winterbotham (IFF Research), Max Munday (Prifysgol Caerdydd), Rhys Davies (Prifysgol Caerdydd)