Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research and Data

Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research and Data

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Borders, boundary mechanisms and migration

Borders, boundary mechanisms and migration examines factors shaping civil society engagement with migration and forms of bordering through comparative international case studies and place-based ethnographies, and explores how social boundary activation mechanisms are articulated by civil society groups. Start date provided is that of the WISERD Civil Society Centre. Work packages will have their own…

Research Team: Bethan Loftus (Bangor University), Dana Brablecova (Bangor University), Howard Davis (Bangor University), Maria Christina Galanaki (Bangor University), Martina Feilzer (Bangor University), Rhys Dafydd Jones (Aberystwyth University), Robin Mann (Bangor University)
Researching Civic Participation in Wales in place and over time

Overview This project has examined experiences of participation at the local level and what they tell us about the changing patterns of mobilisation in particular places in Wales. Fieldwork took place in North and South Wales in three stages. 1. Mapping local level civil society groups. 2. Life history/narrative interviews, which will capture experiences and biographies of…

Research Team: David Dallimore (Bangor University), Howard Davis (Bangor University), Marta Eichsteller (University College Dublin), Robin Mann (Bangor University)
Knowing Localities: Responses to Redundancy at AA

Overview This project was concerned with the impact on workers, their families and neighbourhoods of the closure of the Anglesey Aluminium (AA) smelter in September 2009, formerly one of the major employers in the Holyhead area. Previous studies of the impact of factory closure on local communities have focused on the individual impacts of redundancy as…

Research Team: Alexandra Plows (Bangor University), Howard Davis (Bangor University), Rhys Davies (Cardiff University)
Social Participation and Identity – NCDS Project

Overview This project was a joint venture with the Institute of Education, Centre for Longitudinal Studies and the ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-cultural change (Manchester University). The main study, funded by ESRC, undertook 180 qualitative interviews with cohort members of the 1958 National Child Development Study. In the first stage of the project WISERD…

Research Team: Alexandra Plows (Bangor University), Amanda Coffey (Cardiff University), Gareth Rees (Cardiff University), Gareth S Williams (Old Bell 3 Ltd), Howard Davis (Bangor University), Huw Beynon (Cardiff University), Ian Rees Jones (Cardiff University), Ian Stafford (Cardiff University), Jesse Heley (Aberystwyth University), Kate Moles (Cardiff University), Laura Jones (Aberystwyth University), Martin Jones (Staffordshire University), Rhys Jones (Aberystwyth University)