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‘Coronavirus holidays’ stoke rural fury

  Catherine Calderwood, forced to resign as Scotland’s chief medical officer, is far from the only city dweller to have caused controversy by flouting lockdown rules to visit her second home in the countryside. Resentment over “coronavirus holidays” is rising. The Covid-19 crisis has prompted some to seek to escape the city. Green spaces are…

Adroddiad COVID-19 gan yr Economi Sylfaenol Gyfunol

  Mae’r tîm o ymchwilwyr sy’n arwain gwaith economi sylfaenol WISERD wedi cyfrannu at adroddiad COVID-19, sy’n cyflwyno achos ar gyfer adnewyddu’r economi sylfaenol ar ôl i’r argyfwng o ran iechyd y cyhoedd ddod i ben. Mae’r argyfwng yn dangos pwysigrwydd yr economi sylfaenol, sef y rhan honno o’r economi sy’n cynhyrchu nwyddau a gwasanaethau…

Reflections on ‘The Rise and Fall of Think Tanks in Wales’, by Victoria Winckler from the Bevan Foundation

I have followed WISERD’s civil society project with great interest over the years. There is much for civil society organisations to learn from and to reflect upon in Wales as elsewhere. Yet in all of WISERD’s work there was a gap – and that was on think tanks. I was therefore delighted when WISERD asked…

New research reveals rights violations of disabled people in the Commonwealth of Independent States

New research by WISERD Co-Director, Professor Paul Chaney, analyses civil society organisations’ (CSOs’)  perspectives on the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). Over the past decade, the majority of CIS countries have finally ratified the CRPD, offering new rights for the region’s…

Professor John Morgan’s book published in Portuguese

Professor John Morgan’s 2019 book Philosophy, Dialogue, and Education: Nine modern European philosophers (with A. A. Guilherme), Routledge, London and New York, has been translated into Portuguese and published in Brazil by the UNESCO Chair of Youth, Education, and Society, the Catholic University of Brazilia, DF, 2020.

Michael Gove and the Miners’ Gala: Not so wide of the mark

“Just think about it, next year, both the Durham Miners’ Gala and the Notting Hill Carnival will take place in seats represented by Conservative MPs” Michael Gove, December 2019. The Durham Miners’ Gala, established in 1871, is the largest annual gathering of trade unionists in the UK. Despite the last coal mine in County Durham…

Yr Athro John Morgan yn mynd i symposiwm ar Rwsia gyfoes

Cafodd yr Athro John Morgan ei wahodd i symposiwm ar ‘Ugain Mlynedd o Putin: Sut mae Rwsia wedi newid’ a gynhaliwyd yng Nghanolfan Rwsia a Dwyrain Ewrop yng Ngholeg St Antony, Prifysgol Rydychen, ar 7 Rhagfyr 2019. Fe ddenodd y symposiwm arbenigwyr materion Rwsieg yn ogystal â chynrychiolwyr rhyngwladol eraill o feysydd academaidd, diplomyddiaeth a…

Is there a future for Welsh-Breton town twinning?

Town twinning grew after the Second World War, forging new friendships between old enemies as civil society crossed borders. Today, though, post-war memory has faded, while Brexit and Eurosceptic politics sow new divisions. Here in Wales, will town twinning stay relevant – or be relegated to the past? “I can’t see a future for twinning…

Tyfu i Fyny yng Nghymru: safbwyntiau a phrofiadau myfyrwyr ysgol

Roedd ein digwyddiad diweddar, Tyfu i Fyny yng Nghymru: safbwyntiau a phrofiadau myfyrwyr ysgol, wedi archwilio canfyddiadau diweddaraf data arolwg Astudiaeth Aml-garfan Addysg WISERD (WMCS). Dros y saith mlynedd ddiwethaf, mae’r WMCS wedi gwneud cyfraniad pwysig i ddeall bywydau pobl ifanc yng Nghymru, drwy gynnal arolwg blynyddol o dros 1,000 o bobl ifanc wrth iddyn…

Gwell werthuso a chyllido i gynorthwyo ymdrechion i hyrwyddo ieithoedd lleiafrifol

Fe fyddai ymdrechion i hyrwyddo ieithoedd lleiafrifol ymysg plant a phobl ifanc yn elwa o wella’r ffordd y mae prosiectau yn cael eu gwerthuso, ac o gyllid digonol. Dyna rai o gasgliadau allweddol ymchwil i weithgareddau hyrwyddo iaith yn y gwledydd Celtaidd. Fe gynhaliodd academyddion o brifysgolion Aberystwyth a Chaeredin ymchwil ar weithgareddau mudiadau yn…