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This report, based on 42 interviews with workers, trade unionists and other stakeholders, examines the phenomena of low-paid and precarious work in Sheffield. It focuses on the factors driving the prevalence of such work (including the links with welfare reform), the experiences of workers in seven distinct employment sectors, as well as trade union responses…

Summary of presentations at the WISERD and Department for Work and Pensions Areas of Research Interest (ARI) Workshop on the 23rd and 25th March 2021.

This volume presents the key outcomes and research findings of the Digitranscope research project of the European Commission Joint Research Centre. The project set out to explore during the period 2017-2020 the challenges and opportunities that the digital transformation is posing to the governance of society. We focused our attention on the governance of data…

Under Senedd Research’s Academic Fellowship Scheme, Associate Professor Mitchel Langford from the University of South Wales explored how the latest digital mapping technologies can lead to a better understanding of the geographical provision of retail banking. The full report Exploring geographical patterns in the changing landscape of retail banking services in Wales (PDF, 3.09 MB) is published as a Wales Institute…

Over the past decade successive rounds of bank closures and increasing trends towards fee charging ATMs have attracted widespread media and political attention. This report explores how the latest developments in spatial analytical techniques can provide detailed insight into patterns of provision and change. These techniques are used to provide estimates of accessibility at local community…

Darllenwch ein hadroddiad blynyddol, WISERD Insight, sy’n cynnwys ein prif feysydd gweithgaredd, proffil incwm, cyllid a gweithgareddau ymgysylltu yn 2020.  

Crynodeb gweithredo Mae’r adroddiad hwn yn seiliedig ar ymchwil blaenorol a ariannwyd gan y Cyngor Ymchwil Economaidd a Chymdeithasol1 a oedd yn tystio i’r hyn a ddigwyddodd i ddau gorff cymunedol sefydledig2 , a oedd yn cyflwyno’ rhaglen Cymunedau yn Gyntaf3 yn lleol, rhwng y cyhoeddiad bod o rhaglen yn debygol o gau ym mis…

The questions raised by the webinar, Towards Justice: Responding to Past Harms, go to the heart of the purposes of national and international criminal justice systems. One core aim of the criminal justice system is to hold to account those who have broken the law and caused harm to others in the process. This is…

The Rural Vision has been commissioned by the WLGA Rural Forum – representing the nine predominantly rural local authorities of Anglesey, Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Conwy, Denbighshire, Gwynedd, Monmouthshire, Pembrokeshire and Powys – to develop a strategic framework for future policy impacting on rural Wales and to identify key policy asks for the Welsh and UK Governments….

Discussions triggered by campaigns around the Black Lives Matter movement have prompted WISERD to reflect on our track record of research on the structural inequalities, unequal life chances and injustices associated with racism. WISERD has undertaken a significant amount of research on these inequalities. This review aims to highlight the range of research that WISERD has…