Paul Chaney is a co-director of WISERD and Professor of Policy and Politics at Cardiff University School of Social Sciences. He has been a member of a number of Government advisory bodies – including the UK government Steering Group on the Equality and Human Rights Commission.

He was a panel member/ special adviser to the RAE (2008) and REF (2010-11). He was on the Management Board of Policy and Politics (Policy Press) and co-editor of the peer-reviewed journal Contemporary Wales: An Annual Review of Social, Political and Economic Research (2003-2014). He has authored/ contributed to ten books and written over sixty papers in leading peer-reviewed journals. His research and teaching interests include: territorial politics, public policy-making, civil society, and equality and human rights.

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