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The Welsh Centre for Crime and Social Justice (WCCSJ) is an all-Wales centre, formed by seven different universities. These include Aberystwyth, Bangor, Cardiff, Glamorgan and Swansea, and therefore the centre has close links with WISERD. The launch of the centre has been reported by Cardiff University as an exciting new venture, allowing multiple Welsh universities…

The first WISERD summer conference “Knowing Wales: People, Place, Policy”, was held in Cardiff on the 28th and 29th of June 2010. Over a hundred delegates from higher education and the public and voluntary sectors across Wales were in attendance to listen to speakers engaged in social science research discussing topics as diverse as health…

Professor Michael Burawoy has become a regular visitor to Cardiff and he was with us once again in February to attend a WISERD Advisory Board meeting. His extended stay was facilitated by the Centre for Global Labour Research which provided Michael with a Montague Burton Visiting Fellowship. During his time in Cardiff, Professor Burawoy delivered…