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Professor David Blackaby comments on ITV’s ‘Wales at Work’ about the cancellation of the electrification of the railway line between Cardiff and Swansea and the impact on the economic development of Wales.    

The Learned Society of Wales has announced ESRC-funded PhD student, Samuel Brown from Swansea University, as winner of the WISERD Annual Conference 2017 Poster Prize. He receives an award of £200 from the Learned Society of Wales. Samuel is in the 3rd year of his PhD which looks at the impact of major life events…

The Learned Society of Wales (LSW) website features a news item about the WISERD Poster Prize , sponsored by the LSW, which was awarded at the WISERD Annual Conference 2017. A link to the article can be found below: https://www.learnedsociety.wales/samuel-brown-wins-wiserd-poster-prize-2017-sponsored-learned-society-wales/

As part of WISERD’s Cultural Participation Research Network (CPRN) there is a small fund available for activities and projects to support the development of the network. The aim of the network is to develop a programme of research and impact activities in the field of cultural participation[1], with a focus on collaboration between academics, decision makers,…

On 27th June, WISERD Co-director, Professor Paul Chaney discussed the third sector’s relationship with the state with a mixed audience of assembly members, policy-makers, practitioners and members of the public, at the Pierhead Building in Cardiff Bay, as part of the National Assembly for Wales’s Exchanging Ideas seminar. He argued that issues of voluntary sector…

WISERD was joined by Dr Sally Brown from Edinburgh Napier University for the latest Civil Society Seminar, which looked at teenage pregnancy and intergenerational relations. Read her blog to discover more about the findings from her qualitative interviews with teenage mothers and mothers-to-be from different generations. The paper I gave recently at WISERD stems from my…

Grant Denton, a Politics and Sociology undergraduate at Cardiff University, worked as an Event Assistant at WISERD’s ‘Young People and Brexit: One Year On’ conference at the National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) building in London on 22nd June 2017. The event brought together academics, third-sector organisations, policymakers and young people for presentations and a…

Dr Dyfan Powel shares research findings on what young people think about Brexit.

WISERD Civil Society is featured in issue 8 of the Exchange magazine, a Bevan Foundation publication.

Professor David Blackaby comments on issues surrounding the electrification of the railway line between Cardiff and Swansea on ITV’s ‘Good Morning’.