Newyddion

Mae tri academydd o Brifysgol Aberystwyth wedi ysgrifennu penodau mewn llyfr newydd sy’n dathlu cyfraniad yr Athro Colin Williams i faes polisi a chynllunio iaith. Mae Language, Policy and Territory yn cynnwys 18 pennod gan gyn-fyfyrwyr, cyd-aelodau o staff a rhai a fu’n cydweithio â  Williams. Mae’r rhain yn cynnwys yr Athro Rhys Jones, Dr…

Mae papur diweddar gan yr Athro Gary Higgs, Dr Andrew Price a Dr Mitchel Langford o WISERD a Chanolfan Ymchwil GIS a gyhoeddwyd yn y Journal of Rural Studies wedi amlygu’r angen i ystyried yr opsiynau trafnidiaeth sydd ar gael i gael mynediad i wasanaethau i’r rhai sy’n dibynnu ar drafnidiaeth gyhoeddus. Drwy dynnu ar…

Mae erthygl newydd, mynediad agored mewn cyfnodolyn ar fesur hygyrchedd i wasanaethau bancio gan Dr Mitchel Langford, Andrew Price a’r Athro Gary Higgs o Brifysgol De Cymru, wedi’i chyhoeddi yn ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information. Mae’r erthygl yn dangos sut y gellir mesur hygyrchedd i ganghennau banc ar wahanol adegau o’r dydd a thrwy ddulliau…

Ar 4 Gorffennaf, adroddwyd ar wefan newyddion Nation.Cymru bod Anas Sarwar, arweinydd y Blaid Lafur yn yr Alban, ac aelod o Senedd yr Alban, wedi galw am Senedd newydd o’r Cenhedloedd a’r Rhanbarthau i gymryd lle Tŷ’r Arglwyddi. Wrth siarad â’r Gymdeithas Fabian yn San Steffan, dadleuodd Anas Sarwar: ‘nad oes lle i Dŷ’r Arglwyddi,…

Amlygodd pandemig Covid-19 a Brexit, gyda’i gilydd, lawer o’r heriau sy’n wynebu cefn gwlad Cymru, o fynediad gwael at wasanaethau a phobl ifanc yn symud i ffwrdd, i or-ganolbwyntio ar dwristiaeth a dibyniaeth ar farchnadoedd allforio Ewropeaidd. Ar yr un pryd, wrth i Gymru lywio’r adferiad ôl-bandemig a pharatoi polisïau a rhaglenni ôl-Brexit, ceir cyfleoedd…

Mae’r parhad yn yr anghydraddoldebau rhwng rhanbarthau, er gwaethaf dros dri degawd o ymyriadau o dan Bolisi Cydlyniant yr UE, yn broblem o bwys i Ewrop ac mae awydd cynyddol i ailystyried dulliau gweithredu. Dros y chwe blynedd diwethaf, mae WISERD ym Mhrifysgol Aberystwyth wedi ceisio gwneud hynny drwy arwain prosiect mawr o’r enw IMAJINE…

Today (25th May), the Department of Business Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) released its latest figures for trade union membership. The long-term downward trend in union membership in the UK is well known.  Based on union records, trade union membership within the UK peaked in 1979 at approximately 13.2 million. Since then, there has been…

Public transport was severely impacted during COVID-19 as people’s daily mobility patterns changed. This led to a substantial drop in demand as many workers were instructed to work from home and social distancing measures were introduced on existing services. Department for Transport statistics show a decline from 91 to 26 million passenger journeys on local…

I remember Mariupol. I visited the Russian-speaking port of around 500,000 people in the summer of 1983. It was then Zhdanov, a city of the Soviet Union on the Sea of Azov, adjacent to the Black Sea. Named, as were many Soviet cities and towns, after a prominent Communist: Andrei Zhdanov, a close associate of…

The murderous onslaught on sovereign Ukraine by Putin and his ruling clique of siloviki, or former members of the security services, has made the world aware of the enormities characterising his regime. We already had plenty of evidence of ruthlessness: Chechnya, Georgia, Syria, fomenting ethnic division in Donbass, and the Crimea. Putin, a KGB foreign intelligence…