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New research by WISERD Co-Director, Professor Paul Chaney analyses civil society organisations’ perspectives on how the UK, Welsh, Scottish and Northern Ireland governments are responding to their international human rights treaty obligations in the formulation and delivery of social policy. This socio-legal study is the first that examines human rights and the territorialisation of social welfare…

Yr wythnos hon lansiodd y Ganolfan Deilliannau Cynhyrchedd Ymarfer, Ymgysylltu a Dysgu yn y Gweithle (PrOPEL) ei gwefan, yn cynnwys cyfraniadau gan staff WISERD. Mae’r Athro Alan Felstead a Rhys Davies yn rhan o’r Ganolfan Deilliannau Cynhyrchedd Ymarfer, Ymgysylltu a Dysgu yn y Gweithle (ProPEL), prosiect £1.95 miliwn, a gefnogir gan y Cyngor Ymchwil Economaidd…

      Mae’r adroddiad hwn yn rhoi trosolwg o’n gweithgareddau ymchwil yn 2019 – blwyddyn sydd wedi dynodi diwedd un bennod a dechrau pennod newydd, ac wedi cryfhau sefyllfa WISERD fel canolfan ymchwil genedlaethol bwysig. Darllenwch ragor am ein proffil incwm diweddaraf, y gwaith sydd ar y gweill i gryfhau ein cysylltiadau rhyngwladol, ein…

The impact of Covid-19 on the economy and the world of work is unprecedented: full or partial lockdown measures are affecting approximately 80 per cent of the global workforce, with the harshest effects falling disproportionately on unprotected workers and those working in the informal economy[1]. For trade unions, the Covid-19 pandemic has cast light on…

WalesOnline, 7th June 2020 Read the full article. Professor Chris Taylor is quoted in the article: “Much of the research on transitions says that it is the familiarisation with high school that is important – knowing where to go, who the teachers are, how work is organised, how much homework there will be, will they get…

Mae’n debygol bod pobl sydd â dementia ac yn byw yn y gymuned yn debygol o gael eu heffeithio’n anghymesur gan fesurau cadw pellter cymdeithasol, ymneilltuo a chyfyngiadau’r cyfnod clo. Mae Cyfarwyddwr Canolfan Cymdeithas Sifil WISERD, yr Athro Ian Rees Jones, yn rhan o raglen ymchwil ‘Gwella profiadau o Dementia a Gwella Byw’n Actif’ (prosiect…

New research by WISERD Co-Director, Professor Paul Chaney and Dr Sarbeswar Sahoo (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi) analyses civil society organisations’ (CSOs’) perspectives on religious freedom violations in Bangladesh. These have been recently thrown into stark relief following the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution in 2011 that confirmed Islam as the State religion of the…

Wales is in the process of undertaking a major overhaul of its national curriculum. Until recently, the curriculum largely resembled that put in place by the 1988 Education Reform Act. The new Curriculum for Wales, based on the Successful futures for all review by Graham Donaldson (2015), entails a radical move away from the traditional…

Mae’r Athro Sally Power, Cyfarwyddwr WISERD, wedi derbyn Medal Hugh Owen 2020 Cymdeithas Ddysgedig Cymru am ei hymchwil addysgol ragorol. Mae’r Athro Power yn ymchwilydd addysg blaenllaw, gyda ffocws eang ar bolisi ac anghydraddoldeb. Mae hi’n chwarae rhan sylweddol wrth gefnogi ymchwil addysg ledled Cymru. Mae Astudiaeth Aml-garfan Addysg WISERD (WMCS), a gyfarwyddwyd gan Power…

GCSE exams were due to take place over the next few weeks in Wales, but have been cancelled due to COVID-19. In the second of our blogs about the impact of the pandemic on young people’s education I look at the replacement of formal examinations with teacher assessments. As qualifications bodies will be relying more…