My name is Jemma and I am a researcher at WISERD working on the Building Social Value and Fair Work in Construction project. The project explores how the construction sector can create real opportunities for people facing barriers to employment. The construction industry in Wales is facing skills shortages, with thousands of vacancies remaining unfilled…

New research from the ADR Wales team based within WISERD, at Cardiff University, has uncovered important insights into how pupils in Wales make post-16 subject choices, and what drives their academic success.  Drawing on data from more than 8,000 sixth form pupils, the research examined links between GCSE attainment and AS-level (first year of A-level) subject choices and outcomes. The findings reveal that…

WISERD Director, Professor Adam Hedgecoe, and WISERD affiliate, Professor Melanie Jones are among this year’s newly elected Fellows of The Learned Society of Wales. Professor Hedgecoe’s research explores the social shaping of modern biomedicine and the role that clinical genetics plays in medical decision making. He has also worked extensively on the regulation of biomedical…

Randomised control trials (RCTs) are often described as the ‘gold standard’ for testing whether new treatments or interventions work. In this blog, Dr Ian Thomas who leads the ADR Wales Housing and Homelessness thematic area, looks at the use of linked administrative data as part of RCTs. Drawing on a pilot trial of an intervention for…

ADR Wales has published the first in a series of Data Insights providing new evidence on Welsh language ability, how it is transmitted across generations and how it influences education and early career outcomes. Carried out by the ADR Wales Skills and Employability team using census and linked administrative data, the research seeks to inform key policy…

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. Kate Moles, Cardiff University and Safia Bailey, Cardiff University More than 7.5 million people immerse themselves in lakes, rivers, seas and lidos every year in the UK. But getting in the water means getting in pollution too for most…

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. Aaron Thierry, Cardiff University In Brownsville, Texas, three members of the Galvan family died after a malfunctioning air conditioner left them exposed to extreme heat. Aged between 60 and 82, all three had chronic health conditions, including diabetes and…

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. Aaron Thierry, Cardiff University and Tristram Wyatt, University of Oxford Despite decades of scientists’ warnings about climate and ecological breakdown, record-breaking heat and escalating environmental disasters have become commonplace. Science has been attacked, dismissed and politicised, and the world…