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Recent research in rural geography has shown increasing interest in the ways in which rurality is performed and enacted by diverse actors. Rural geographers have also demonstrated increasing awareness of their own ‘performances’ as researchers, including their enactment of multiple roles in engaging with research subjects, funders and users. This progress report for rural geography…

This paper aims to review the state of play of GIS use in measuring accessibility to services drawing on work in areas such as health, public services, transport and environmental justice. The first section describes what is meant by ‘accessibility’ in the context of our research. To date this has predominantly been concerned with measures…

This report will utilise the information available in sweeps 1-3 (from birth to when the child is age 5) of the MCS, to explore the following research questions: Do children born in the Millennium in Wales have different health outcomes at birth to those born elsewhere in the UK? How do cross country differences in…

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…