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In this article we discuss findings from our ethnography investigating how volunteering in local associational life is changing, asking whether structural factors fixed in localities remain important or whether, as others have suggested, volunteering is becoming disembedded from place. Across two locations, we observe how situational variables, including belonging, identification and interaction, remain important determinants…

Lansiwyd Addysg WISERD yn 2012 er mwyn newid tirlun ymchwil addysgol yng Nghymru. Prif nodau’r Rhaglen oedd: • gwella’r capasiti i gynnal ymchwil addysgol o ansawdd o fewn y sector addysg uwch yng Nghymru; • ymgymryd â gweithgareddau ymchwil sydd â’r nod o wella ansawdd dysgu a safonau addysgu ac addysg athrawon yng Nghymru; •…

Ym mis Gorffennaf 2017, penododd Llywodraeth Cymru OB3 Research, ar y cyd â WISERD, i gynnal gwerthusiad o Rwydwaith Seren. Gallwch ei lawrlwytho yma Comisiynwyd gwerthusiad ffurfiannol a phroses o’r Rhwydwaith Seren i lywio penderfyniadau ynghylch y meini prawf ar gyfer cyfranogiad pobl ifanc a dylunio darpariaeth y rhaglen ar lefel genedlaethol a lleol. Amcanion…

This report reveals the latest figures of Wales’ Towns and Cities including the number of retail premises, the vacancy rates, the retail structure and the relationship with socio-economic characteristics and geographical typology. The main takeaways: The vacancy rate decreased in Wales in all three location types (Retail parks, high streets and shopping centres) that LDC track and…

Approaches to calculating spatial accessibility within existing indices of multiple deprivation (IMD) methodologies are based on ‘traditional’ accessibility metrics and tend not to adopt more recent methodological enhancements. In particular, the last decade has seen a relatively large body of studies that have applied floating catchment area (FCA) methods that account for both service supply…

Given that there appears to be a dichotomy within the BRICS, we focus on Russia and China, discussing recent developments in their respective Higher Educational systems, and what these changes might mean in terms of internationalization. Moreover, given that the importance of Higher Education for a balanced development is something that is now widely recognised by International Organizations,…

The chapter provides an extensive review of the literature on student choice of destination. This identifies push and pull factors influencing Chinese students’ decisions about the country of destination for overseas study. It shows also that in addition to push factors, largely concerned with general issues regarding the country of origin, and pull factors, concerned…

An interview transcript can be a rich source of geographical references whose potential are not always fully realised in their conventional analysis. Geo-referencing techniques can be used to assign a spatial footprint to place names, adding value to these data and allowing the geographic information within them to be exploited when coupled with GIS technology….

The chapter focuses on the evolution of education as public policy in contemporary China, that is the period since Deng Xiaoping’s Opening-Up and Market Reform of the economy. This has seen extensive changes to the provision and content of China’s formal education system generally, and especially higher education; and in the relationship between education, the…

Against the backdrop of continuing rights violations in Bangladesh, this article analyses issue-salience and framing in the policy discourse of civil society organizations (CSOs) and state elites on the implementation of the United Nation’s Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). Data from the reports submitted to the second-cycle United Nations’ Universal Periodic Review…