Research projects

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…

  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…

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. The aim is to encourage the re-use and re-purposing of existing data. Who developed it? The WISERD DataPortal has been developed by the Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research and…

The Census of the Population remains a key element of the quantitative research undertaken by the social science community in the UK. It provides an essential snapshot of socio-economic circumstances in the UK and is fundamental to research in many disciplines since it allows for certain types of investigation on issues (e.g. small areas and…

Community-led mapping provides an important way of identifying local community assets and understanding their use by local people. This project will explore the use of open digital mapping platforms to help create living online labs where local knowledge is captured, curated and presented in interactive maps. The project will roll out these methods to undertake…

This project will focus on the development of the Understanding Places strand of work as a distinct set of interactive dashboards providing a wide range of demographic, socio-economic and asset-based data for specific localities. The work with build on the Understanding Welsh Places and Understanding Cornish places platforms with the intention of exploring new collaborations…