WISERD Online Lunchtime Seminar
WISERD / SURDUBB Seminar – Charting the decline of the union pay premium
2nd May 2023
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Online
Presented by Rhys Davies This paper presents new evidence on long term trends in the union pay premium for Great Britain. Based upon data from the Labour Force Survey for 2001 to 2021, regression analysis reveals that the average premium in pay associated with union membership is estimated to be approximately 5%. The premium is…
WISERD Online Lunchtime Seminar
Tracking Participation in Post Compulsory Education in Wales
30th November 2021
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Online
Presented by Rhys Davies. Tracking the destinations and outcomes of Year 11 pupils following their completion of Key Stage 4 is not straightforward. Data related to those who attend school sixth forms and those who attend colleges of Further Education (encompassing those registered for work-based learning) is collected separately. This separation is, for the most…
WISERD Online Lunchtime Seminar
The Effectiveness of Careers Guidance in Supporting Participation in Post Compulsory Education and Training
12th October 2021
Presented by Rhys Davies This presentation explores the provision of careers guidance among 2 cohorts of Key Stage 4 children in Wales and its impact on the transitions subsequently made by Year 11 pupils into Post-Compulsory Education and Training (PCET). Analysis reveals that having a one-to-one careers guidance session in Year 10 or 11 is…
Workshop
Department of Work and Pensions ARI workshop
23rd March 2021
During March, the Wales Institute for Social and Economic Research and Data (WISERD) is hosting two workshops on behalf of the Department and Work and Pensions (DWP). The workshops form part of DWPs wider engagement strategy with UK universities and provide an opportunity for DWP analysts to engage with the research community and to identify…
WISERD Online Lunchtime Seminar
WISERD online lunchtime seminar- Understanding the origins of labour market disadvantage
9th March 2021
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Online
Presented by Katy Huxley and Rhys Davies, WISERD. This presentation provides an overview of the difficulties expressed by Key Stage 4 pupils in making choices regarding their transitions from compulsory education. Through a population level linkage study that combines data from the Careers Wales Career Check Survey with pupil level information from the National Pupil…
WISERD Online Lunchtime Seminar
WISERD online lunchtime seminar- Lockdown in Bangalore: The Vulnerabilities of Indian Garment Workers
8th December 2020
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Online
Jean Jenkins and Rhys Davies, Cardiff University Since October 2018, researchers from WISERD and Cardiff Business School have been working in partnership with Cividep-India to examine whether and how garment workers in Bangalore are able to gain access to remedy at the workplace. On 24 March 2020, the study was temporarily brought to an…
Cardiff Lunchtime Seminar
WISERD Lunchtime Seminar- Careers Guidance and Progression to Post-Compulsory Education in Wales
21st January 2020
Presented by Rhys Davies, WISERD. This seminar is part of the Cardiff WISERD Lunchtime Seminar series. If you are an external guest, please contact us (029 2087 9338) to confirm availability of places. For further information please contact WISERD.Events@cardiff.ac.uk
Cardiff Lunchtime Seminar
The persistence of union membership in coal mining areas
1st October 2019
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Cardiff
Presented by Helen Blakely and Rhys Davies , Cardiff University . This seminar is part of the Cardiff WISERD Lunchtime Seminar series. If you are an external guest, please contact us (029 2087 9338) to confirm availability of places. For further information please contact WISERD.Events@cardiff.ac.uk This seminar will be held through the medium of English. Read the publication here…
Seminar
TUC Congress 2019 “The report of my death has been greatly exaggerated”: The resilience and renewal of trade unions
9th September 2019
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Brighton
Unions have faced decades of hostile legislation designed to make them ineffective, have seen the collapse of parts of the economy that were union strongholds and the growth of precarious work. They have been written off as out of date and out of time. Yet although union density and membership have declined since the 1980s,…
Cardiff Lunchtime Seminar
Trade Union Membership among domestic and international migrants in the UK
30th April 2019
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Cardiff
Presented by Rhys Davies, Cardiff University. This seminar is part of the Cardiff WISERD Lunchtime Seminar series. If you are an external guest, please contact us (029 2087 9338) to confirm availability of places. For further information please contact WISERD.Events@cardiff.ac.uk This seminar will be held through the medium of English.
Conference
Symposium: Family and Civil Society: across the generations
20th November 2018
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NCVO, Society Building, 8 All Saints Street, London, N1 9RL, United Kingdom
Hosted by WISERD, this one day symposium will explore the role of the family in civil society engagement and the significance of intergenerational transmission in relation to political participation, trade unions and Euroscepticism. The day will also showcase latest findings from the WISERD ESRC Civil Society research. This symposium is free to attend and lunch…
Cardiff Lunchtime Seminar
Why are the Welsh so Happy at Work? Union Membership and Regional Variations in Job Satisfaction
9th January 2018
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38 Park Place, Cardiff University, Cardiff, CF10 3BB, United Kingdom
Presented by Rhys Davies, Cardiff University. This seminar is part of the Cardiff WISERD Lunchtime Seminar series.
Conference
UK Data Services’ Labour Force Survey Users Conference
20th November 2017
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Royal Statistical Society, London
Conference paper titled: Trade Union Membership Among the Migrant Community presented by Rhys Davies
Conference
UK Data Services Labour Force Survey Users Conference
25th November 2016
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Royal Statistical Society, London
Conference paper “Making Sense of Official Estimates of Trade Union Membership” delivered at the UK Data Services Labour Force Survey Users Conference.
Cardiff Lunchtime Seminar
In the blood or the water? Intergenerational transmission of trade union membership
15th November 2016
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Cardiff
Presented by Helen Blakely and Rhys Davies (Cardiff University)
Conference
2016 Work and Pensions Economics Group (WPEG) Conference
25th July 2016
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Sheffield
Rhys Davies presented a paper, co-authored with Alex Bryson,”What Do Unions Do In Wales? The Case of Job Satisfaction” Conference paper available here
Workshop
ADRC Wales Accreditation Training
21st January 2016
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Cardiff
The ADRN aim to give accredited researchers access to de-identified administrative data. One of the steps to achieving accredited researcher status is attending and successfully completing our Accreditation Training course and test. The training course is an all-day event, the programme, other details and training materials will be available nearer to the time. Please note…
Training
Welsh Labour Market Summit: debating interventions to match skills and jobs
18th September 2015
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Bangor
This summit mainly discussed existing and possible future labour market interventions in response to large-scale job losses across traditional industries (deindustrialization) in Wales, with a particular focus on the North West Wales labour market. There were a number of academic and stakeholder speakers, followed by an interactive session involving the audience, which informed debate and research….
Training
Accessing the Administrative Data Research Network: What, Why and Where do I start?
2nd July 2015
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Millennium Stadium, Cardiff
This session introduced the work of the Administrative Data Research Network (ADRN) and within it, the Administrative Data Research Centre Wales (ADRC-W). Delegates heared about the work of the ADRN and an overview of some of the projects undertaken within ADRC Wales that are using de-identified, linked administrative data. Delegates also heared about the process of…
Workshop
Locating and Using Data Resources on Wales
3rd March 2014
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Cardiff
Course Leader: Mr Rhys Davies, WISERD Quantitative Research Team This course provided an overview of some of the data resources available for research within the Social Sciences, focusing upon resources relevant to Wales. The course outlined the key sources of information related to data and research resources of potential interest. The aim was to fill knowledge gaps regarding the existence…
Training
Exploiting the Potential of Longitudinal Research Resources for Wales
7th May 2013
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Cardiff
This event showcased the possibilities in terms of longitudinal research on policy relevant themes, with the aim of developing longitudinal research capacity within Wales. Programme: 12.00 Lunch 12.50 Welcome & Introduction (Prof. Ian Rees Jones, WISERD, Cardiff University) 13.00 Welsh overview of the England and Wales Longitudinal Study (Dr Nicola Shelton, CeLSIUS, UCL) 13.20 Presentations…
Workshop
Understanding Wales: Opportunities for Secondary Data Analysis
16th January 2012
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Cardiff
Presented by: Steve Marshall of Welsh Government, Melanie Jones, Stephen Drinkwater and Martin Heaven of Swansea University, Scott Orford, Chris Taylor, Alan Felstead and Rhys Davies of Cardiff University. The Welsh Government makes a number of investments in survey and administrative data sources. In terms of survey sources, the Welsh Government is responsible for…
Seminar
An Anatomy of Economic Inequality in Wales
4th October 2011
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Pierhead Building, Cardiff Bay
WISERD was delighted to be supporting the Wales Governance Centre (WGC) in hosting a series of seminars in the Pierhead Building, Cardiff Bay. Join a number of leading academics for a series of events exploring patterns of economic and social inequality in contemporary Wales
Workshop
Locating and Using Data Resources on Wales
15th September 2011
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Cardiff
Course Leader: Mr Rhys Davies, WISERD Quantitative Research Team This course provided an overview of some of the data resources available for research within the Social Sciences, and focused upon resources relevant to Wales. The course outlined the key sources of information related to data and research resources of potential interest. The aim was to fill knowledge gaps regarding the…
Workshop
Locating and Using Data Resources on Wales
11th April 2011
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Cardiff
Course Leader: Mr Rhys Davies, WISERD Quantitative Research Team This course provided an overview of some of the data resources available for research within the Social Sciences, focussing upon resources relevant to Wales. The course outlined the key sources of information related to data and research resources of potential interest. The aim was to fill knowledge gaps regarding the existence…
Workshop
Locating and Using Data Resources on Wales
25th May 2010
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Swansea
Course Leader: Mr Rhys Davies, WISERD Quantitative Research Team This course provided an overview of some of the data resources available for research within the Social Sciences, focussing upon resources relevant to Wales. The course outlined the key sources of information related to data and research resources of potential interest. The aim was to fill knowledge gaps regarding the existence and scope of…