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Dr Robert French yw arweinydd academaidd rhaglen ymchwil addysg YDG Cymru. Yn y blog hwn, mae’n trafod ei gyfraniad i ymchwiliad a ddechreuwyd gan Senedd y DU yn archwilio absenoldeb cyson o’r ysgol.  Mae lefelau absenoldeb parhaus o’r ysgol ymhlith plant wedi dyblu ers pandemig Covid-19. Mae ystadegau gan yr Adran Addysg yn dangos, yn Lloegr,…

Mae llywodraeth newydd y DU wedi addo gweithredu i “hyrwyddo cydbwysedd cadarnhaol rhwng bywyd a gwaith i bob gweithiwr”, ac i atal cartrefi rhag “troi’n swyddfeydd 24/7”. Mae’r risg o weithio “bob amser ar gael” wedi cynyddu ers y pandemig, gyda thechnoleg yn golygu bod gwaith yn aml o fewn cyrraedd hawdd. Mae deddfwriaeth sy’n…

In October 2023, I started an internship with Victim Support. Part of my role was to conduct a literature review in preparation for the production of an accessible report exploring the experiences of victims of hate crime through recent, pre-existing academic research in the field. The main focus of the internship was to make academic…

WISERD Co-Director, Paul Chaney, has co-authored a new report in a project led by Dr Steven McCulloch (University of Winchester). The report entitled “Political Animals: The Democratic and Electoral Case for Strong Animal Welfare Policies in UK General Elections”[i] was commissioned as part of a campaign by 23 leading animal welfare NGOs. To locate this…

WISERD Co-Director, Paul Chaney, has co-authored a new report in a project led by Dr Steven McCulloch (University of Winchester). The report entitled “Political Animals: The Democratic and Electoral Case for Strong Animal Welfare Policies in UK General Elections”[i] was commissioned as part of a campaign by 23 leading animal welfare NGOs. To locate this…

  In 1979 at a time of great social and political change I was living in Durham. I was closely involved with the coal miners and the NUM, and also with a group called “Strong Words” that we had set up to record and publish the words and images of working-class people in the North…

Yn rhan o’r astudiaeth WISERD ‘Meysydd ehangu dinesig newydd: pobl, anifeiliaid a Deallusrwydd Artiffisial (AI)’, fe gyflwynon ni ymchwil newydd mewn digwyddiad WHEB ym Mrwsel y mis diwethaf. Mae’r ymchwil yn nodi barn a phryderon sefydliadau cymdeithas ddinesig (CSOau) am Ddeallusrwydd Artiffisial (AI) yn yr UE. Mae’r Comisiwn Ewropeaidd yn deddfu er mwyn cydlynu’r fframwaith…

Yn Anarchical Fallacies (1796), dywedodd yr athronydd iwtilitaraidd Seisnig Jeremy Bentham fod y cysyniad o hawliau naturiol yn nonsens ac mai ‘nonsens ar stilts’ oedd hawlio hawliau nad ydynt wedi’u rhagnodi yng nghyfreithiau’r wladwriaeth. Dadleuodd fod drysu dymuno bod gennym hawl gyda bodolaeth yr hawl ei hun yn gamsyniad llwyr. Ar ben hynny, rhoddir yr…

In October, as part of WISERD’s civil society and animal welfare research, a workshop was held in New Delhi. Academics present included co-investigators Professors Paul Chaney and Sarbeswar Sahoo, along with Research Associates Dr Pooja Sharma and Dr Debashree Saikia (pictured). Our work involves comparative analysis of developments in Wales, Scotland, England and India. We…

Pictured above: Dr Rose Butler and Dr Victoria Stead, Deakin University, Australia with Professor Michael Woods, Aberystwyth University. Dr Rose Butler and Dr Victoria Stead kindly contributed to the WISERD blog following their visit to Wales from 1–8th October, 2023. We were thrilled to spend a week as guests of the Wales Institute for Social…