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There is evidence to suggest that school exclusions can have negative effects on children’s lives. Exclusions have been associated with poor educational outcomes, and long-term physical and mental health problems. We need to investigate how patterns of exclusions and characteristics of excluded pupils differ across time and can help to inform current understanding of possible…

Ar 20 Ebrill, cafodd yr Athro W. John Morgan, Cymrawd Emeritws Leverhulme yn WISERD, ei wahodd i gyflwyno darlith drwy Zoom i Gymdeithas Anrhydeddus y Cymmrodorion, cymdeithas ddysgedig Cymry Llundain a sefydlwyd ym 1751. Thema ei ddarlith oedd Ben Bowen Thomas, Cymru, ac UNESCO. Ffocws ymchwil Leverhulme yr Athro Morgan yw defnyddio’r Cenhedloedd Unedig a’u…

A global demographic shift means that an ageing population creates an unprecedent demand for adult social care. We live in an era when, for the first time, the number of older people (60+ years) will exceed younger people1. In the UK this challenge is magnified by the effects of austerity and welfare state capacity. New…

Mae’r Gyfarwyddwr Sally Power yn rhannu canfyddiadau o arolwg Astudiaeth Aml-garfan Addysg WISERD mewn cyfweliad ar Radio BBC Cymru sy’n amlyugu effaith y cyfnod clo ar addysg pobl ifanc. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000t6bz (O’r munud 37:16)

Yn ôl Dr Catherine Foster (WISERD), ymchwilydd o Brifysgol Caerdydd, mae plant o gefndiroedd difreintiedig yn fwy tebygol o fod ar ei hôl hi gyda’u gwaith ysgol wrth ddysgu gartref. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-56423630

Local authorities in Wales have had to make difficult decisions to close or rationalise a wide range of services in response to changes in the incidence of COVID-19. This has had major impacts for those sectors of the community most dependent on various forms of service provision.  Where there have been partial closures involving changes…

New research by WISERD Co-Director, Professor Paul Chaney, analyses civil society organisations’ perspectives on the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) in nine former Soviet republics, latterly renamed the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). Namely, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russian Federation, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. Over the past…

Ar gyfweliad Ar-lein Cymru, dywedodd Dr Catherine Foster fod bywyd wedi “newid yn ddramatig” i lawer o bobl ifanc a ddioddefodd effeithiau fel unigrwydd a cholli trefn arferol. Dywedodd: “Er bod rhai plant wedi gallu parhau i fynd i’r ysgol o leiaf rhan o’r amser, mae’r mwyafrif wedi colli’r drefn a’r strwythur y mae presenoldeb…

Mae Dr Sioned Pearce yn tynnu sylw at effaith COVID-19 ar ddiweithdra ymhlith pobl ifanc. Mewn cyfweliad â BBC Cymru, dywedodd fod y pandemig wedi “gwaethygu materion ansicrwydd” i bobl ifanc sydd â chontractau sero awr, gwaith rhan-amser a swyddi â chyflog isel.  

Dros y degawd diwethaf mae cylchoedd olynol o gau banciau a thueddiadau cynyddol i ddarparu peiriannau codi arian â ffi wedi denu sylw helaeth yn y cyfryngau ac yn wleidyddol. Mae ymchwilydd WISERD, Mitchel Langford, Athro Cysylltiol ym Mhrifysgol De Cymru, wedi cyhoeddi adroddiad ar fynediad at wasanaethau bancio o ganlyniad i’w Gymrodoriaeth Academaidd ddiweddar…