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On September 13th, the UK’s four chief medical officers concluded that children aged 12 and over can be offered one dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccination. There has been much debate about whether all children and younger teenagers should be offered vaccinations, with discussion about the safety of vaccines, consent from children and the need…

Ddydd Sadwrn 4 Medi 2021, cyflwynodd yr Athro John Morgan ddarlith a gweithdy ar Ddelfrydiaeth a Realaeth mewn Cyfnewid Addysgol a Diwylliannol: Cydweithrediad deallusol rhyngwladol neu ‘bŵer meddal?‘, i’r gynhadledd: Cyd-fyw ag amwysedd – Diwylliannau gwahanol a gwerthoedd cyffredin?, a drefnir gan y Fondazione Intercultura Onus, Fflorens, yr Eidal (2–4 Medi). Mae’r Ddarlith yn ganlyniad…

Anwen Elias, Aberystwyth University and Matt Wall, Swansea University Can the United Kingdom survive Brexit? This remains one of the great unanswered questions of our time. Politically, two major narratives have dominated. The first is that the UK is on a break-up trajectory. Brexit has revived the Scottish independence movement and destabilised Northern Irish politics. Clashes between UK and…

COVID-19 has exposed the vulnerabilities of global supply chains, including our food system. In the UK, the dual impact of the pandemic and Brexit have led to considerable losses in food and drink trade, closures of hospitality venues and growing food insecurity among the population. In front of this backdrop, the demand for more crisis-resilient…

Mae’r Athro Kevin Morgan, arbenigwr ym maes llywodraethu a datblygu yn Ysgol Daearyddiaeth a Chynllunio Prifysgol Caerdydd, yn cael ei gyfweld fel rhan o gyfres ar effaith Brexit ar sectorau gwahanol yn ne Cymru. Ymddangosodd y cyfweliad yn y Western Mail a’r South Wales Echo ar 03.09.21. Western Mail     South Wales Echo  …

    ‘Learning to live: An era poised between enlightenment and obscurantism’ gan yr Athro John Morgan wedi’i chyhoeddi heddiw yn un o bapurau newydd dyddiol blaenllaw yr Eidal, Il Corriere Della Sera.      

Although European leaders have committed to creating more inclusive societies through the recently adopted 2020-2030 EU Roma Strategic Framework (October 2020), civil society organisations (CSOs) challenging Roma exclusion are facing a series of new uncertainties: the withdrawal of the UK from the EU (Brexit) and the COVID-19 pandemic. Across Europe, the exclusion of Roma is…

New research by WISERD Co-director Professor Paul Chaney examines civil society perspectives on children’s rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. The study confirms widespread violations of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Since 1967 Israel has occupied the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. In 1980, Israel officially annexed East Jerusalem…

Cardiff University’s sbarc | spark building, the world’s first social science research park which will launch next year, is the featured in an article (University Business, 13/08/21).

In Wales as elsewhere, the role of volunteers has been brought to the fore during the COVID-19 pandemic as people offered their services to help address the needs of vulnerable groups within their communities. Concerns surrounding the sustainability of such volunteering efforts have drawn attention to the types of infrastructure that could help facilitate and…