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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…

Mae papur newydd gan WISERD yn tynnu sylw at sut y gall dulliau daearyddol gyfrannu at ddealltwriaeth o anghydraddoldebau o ran mynediad at gartrefi gofal a phreswyl yng Nghymru. Cynhaliwyd yr ymchwil gan gyd-gyfarwyddwyr WISERD, yr Athro Gary Higgs a Dr Mitchel Langford, ynghyd â Chysylltydd WISERD, yr Athro Mark Llewellyn, Cyfarwyddwr Sefydliad Iechyd a…

Bydd canolfan newydd sbarc|spark Caerdydd yn dod ag ymchwilwyr at ei gilydd i gysylltu â’i gilydd ar draws disgyblaethau ymchwil yn y gwyddorau cymdeithasol i greu ffyrdd newydd o weithio. Yn ddiweddar, cyhoeddodd yr Athro Sally Power WISERD, bapur sy’n ystyried y galwadau am ‘ecosystem ar sail tystiolaeth’ i fynd i’r afael â’r diffyg cysylltiad…

Since February 2021, we have been working with a community group in South Wales who are concerned about the air quality in their local area. We have adopted a participatory approach that facilitates the group’s work, but which also recognises the expertise of individual members and tracks how the group develops, shares and uses this…

Cynhaliodd Rhwydwaith Ymchwil Ymfudo Cymru symposiwm ar-lein ar 19 Ionawr ar gyfer ôl-raddedigion ac ymchwilwyr ar ddechrau eu gyrfa sy’n gweithio ar faterion sy’n ymwneud ag agweddau o ymfudo yng Nghymru neu sydd wedi’u lleoli mewn sefydliadau yng Nghymru. Thema’r symposiwm oedd ‘Safbwyntiau Newydd ar Ymfudo’. Roedd y cyflwyniadau’n ymdrin â meysydd ymchwil yn amrywio o Eidalwyr…