The WISERD locality research programme comprised a series of locality studies, carried out by six full-time researchers, based in Aberystwyth, Bangor, and Cardiff Universities. These studies were complemented by a suite of qualitative micro-locality and place-based studies Local knowledge in Context’, completed by researchers at Cardiff University. This podcast gives an overview of the research programme and the accompanying monograph, entitled ‘People, Places and Policy: Knowing Contemporary Wales Through New Localities’, which was published in 2015.