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Cynhaliodd WISERD ddarlith gyda’r nos a symposiwm undydd ym Mhrifysgol Caerdydd yr wythnos hon. Trefnwyd y digwyddiad ar y cyd gyda’r Sefydliad Anthropolegol Brenhinol, Cymdeithas Ddysgedig Cymru a Chymdeithas Anrhydeddus y Cymmrodorion. Roedd Anthropolegau Cymdeithasol y Cymry: Y Gorffennol a’r Presennol yn edrych ar ddatblygiad anthropoleg gymdeithasol yng Nghymru o safbwyntiau ysgolheictod cenedlaethol ac ymgysylltu…

      WISERD has been successful in gaining funding for new international research. Led by Professor Paul Chaney, the project is entitled: ‘Civil Society Advocacy and the Rohingya Crisis in Bangladesh: Challenges and Resolutions’. Co-investigator of the new study is Professor Nasir Uddin of the University of Chittagong, a leading international scholar on the…

Mae adroddiad newydd gan y Sefydliad Materion Cymreig yn seiliedig ar ymchwil WISERD wedi’i gyhoeddi gan yr Athro Judith Marquand, Kate O’Sullivan a Dr Sioned Pearce o Brifysgol Caerdydd. Mae ‘Ffactorau sy’n dylanwadu ar ymgysylltiad cymunedol a lleol ag ynni adnewyddadwy yng Nghymru’yn seiliedig ar sgyrsiau gyda phobl sy’n cymryd rhan yn uniongyrchol mewn prosiectau…

Professor W. John Morgan visited the University of Paris 1, Panthéon-La Sorbonne this week, at the personal invitation of Professor Georges Haddad, the University’s President, to discuss his Leverhulme Emeritus Fellowship research on ‘UNESCO and the Cultural Cold War: International Intellectual Co-operation or Soft Power?’ Professor Haddad was formerly Director of the Division of Higher…

  I am a PhD student in Sociology at the University of Brasilia. Through the Erasmus+ programme, I spent six months on a research placement at the School of Social Sciences at Cardiff University. I have been based in the Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research, Data and Methods (WISERD). At WISERD I had…

When we talk about the benefits of volunteering this is usually in relation to young people. Most organisations promote volunteering opportunities to young people; ‘good news’ stories in the media about volunteering focus on the activities of young citizens; and government interventions to increase participation are usually focused on school initiatives (such as the Welsh…

Three WISERD researchers – Constantino Dumangane, Wil Chivers and Ian Thomas – have successfully secured places on the 2019 GW4 Crucible. The GW4 Crucible is a competitive annual programme that seeks to promote interdisciplinary collaboration between early career researchers from Cardiff, Bristol, Bath and Exeter universities. This year’s programme comprises three two-day residential labs. 30…

A long-standing challenge for charities, policy-makers, think tanks and academics interested in volunteering in the UK has been identifying how and why rates of volunteering might vary across the four countries within it. This matters not only for those interested in how the distinct histories, communities and cultures of England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland…

    Leading academics presented as part of a two-day workshop held by WISERD and the Indian Institute of Technology, in New Delhi on 24 and 25th January. The event, ‘Civil Society and Good Governance’, was part of a project funded by the Academy of Medical Sciences, the Global Challenges Research Fund and led by…

On 23rd June 2016, UK voters delivered one of the greatest shocks to British politics by voting 52% to 48% in favour of Brexit. The closeness of the result masked the depth of difference between the moral, political and social values held by those on each side. These differences continue to be a source of…