Newyddion

Adroddiad newydd WISERD ar Fargen Twf Gogledd Cymru

Fel rhan o raglen ymchwil Canolfan Cymdeithas Sifil a ariennir gan ESRC WISERD, mae tîm o ymchwilwyr WISERD wedi cyhoeddi adroddiad newydd ar y broses o ddatblygu a gweithredu Bargen Twf Gogledd Cymru (NWGD), yn seiliedig ar arsylwadau o gyfres o gyfweliadau gyda rhanddeiliaid rhwng mis Gorffennaf i fis Rhagfyr 2021. Cynhaliwyd pymtheg cyfweliad o…

Sheffield Needs a Payrise

The Sheffield Needs A Payrise (SNAP) research project follows the campaign of the same name and builds on the WISERD Spaces of New Localism Civil Society research project. It looks primarily into forms of grassroots, civil society and trade union working together to address issues of low pay and precariousness in work in Sheffield. SNAP…

Strong WISERD presence at the National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) Annual Research Conference

Work from WISERD’s Civil Society Research Programme featured prominently at the National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) Annual Conference in Nottingham, September 7-8. The WISERD stand (pictured) did brisk business with high levels of interest from conference-goers. Dr David Dalimore (WISERD, Bangor University) gave a paper on ‘Place, Belonging and the Determinants of Volunteering’. This presented…

Devolution – no strings attached?

The Sheffield City Region (SCR) faces considerable problems in terms of economic and social inequality. As the Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS) emphasises, there has been a marked decline in living standards in the UK, which is projected to continue. The Sheffield City Region has the highest concentration of those in work and paid below…

‘People, Places and Policy: Knowing contemporary Wales through new localities’ – A new WISERD book published

Our book has finally been published! We say finally, because the idea for the book started to take shape five years ago during the first phase of WISERD. During this phase we were interested in understanding how different localities in Wales were behaving in relation to devolution and devolved policy areas and we developed a research strand…