Cyhoeddiadau

Enormous changes have taken place in the labour market during the last four decades. The number of women in the labour market has increased dramatically, with the greatest increase in labour market participation found amongst married women. The composition of the labour force changed over this period as the jobs in male-intensive industries declined and…

In recent years, the UK Government and devolved governments in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have all stresses the pivotal role of the skills agenda as a key driver in tackling a wide range of economic and social problems. Notably, the Leitch Review of Skills stated that ‘skills is the most important lever within our…

The Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research, Data and Methods (WISERD) is a major new collaborative socio‐economic research programme involving five higher education institutions in Wales. This paper introduces the work of the WISERD data integration team and describes their plans for the development of an online geo‐portal. Their aim is to support WISERD…

There is much housing policy debate in Wales around issues of housing needs, affordable housing supply, the quality of the housing stock, community sustainability and the role and regulation of social housing. The responsibility for most aspects of housing has been devolved to the Welsh Assembly Government (WAG). WAG’s aims for housing are set out…

The promotion of the Welsh language via bilingualism and bilingual development represents a prominent theme in policy and planning for the Welsh Assembly Government and other public bodies in Wales.

The Welsh Assembly Government’s approach to education policy has been highlighted as a clear example of the ‘clear red water’ that has emerged between English and Welsh policy. For example, the rhetoric in Wales has stressed the key role of education within the community and the importance of principles such as social justice, universalism, trust…

Significantly, within the Welsh Assembly Government, all crime, public space and policing matters are housed under the umbrella of community safety and Social Justice. The Welsh Assembly Government’s approach to these matters, from the appointment of the first minister of Social Justice and Regeneration in 2003 has been an attempt to locate responses to crime…

This is the first version of the localities baseline report. The intention is to update the report periodically when new data are released and as the Localities research progresses.

In this article we explore the ways in which mobile research methods can be utilised to create enabling research environments, encounters and exchanges, generating time and space for participants and researchers to co-generate and communicate meaningful understandings of everyday lives. The article focuses on the use of two mobile methods, guided walks and car journey…

Most research and policy discussions of education in the global city have focused on the ways in which globalization and the emergence of global or globalizing cities can create social, economic and educational inequality locally, within the global city itself. Global cities, however, are, by definition, powerful places, where the core institutions, structures and processes…