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WISERD has received major funding in excess of £7 million following a successful bid to the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). As one of four UK research centres, WISERD will be part of an overall ESRC investment of £29 million in a series of new centres and investments which will focus on a range…

Listen to Professor Sally Power on BBC Radio4 programme Thinking Allowed, discussing British vs French graduate interest in ‘serving’ their country when it comes to their career. Professor Sally Power talks about her new comparative study which finds that British students from top universities seek worldwide opportunities, whereas their French counterparts wish to ‘serve’ France….

Inaugural Director, Professor Huw Beynon will feature on the BBC’s The Miners’ Strike programme at 10.25pm on BBC ONE Wales on Sunday March 9th. The programme marks the 30th anniversary of the historic struggle between the miners and a Conservative government led by Margaret Thatcher.  The strike was a well-documented twelve months of hostility. Former…

Wales Online Coverage of the Research conducted by WISERD that formed a key element of the Welsh Government commissioned “Successful Futures” report, written by Professor Graham Donaldson, which proposes a radical overhaul of the national curriculum in Wales. The coverage can be accessed below. http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/revealed-radical-education-overhaul-dramatically-8713170

BBC Coverage of the Research conducted by WISERD that formed a key element of the Welsh Government commissioned “Successful Futures” report, written by Professor Graham Donaldson, which proposes a radical overhaul of the national curriculum in Wales. The full coverage can be read by following the link below. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-31606122

A Made in Cardiff TV interview with Professor Ian Rees Jones, regarding the launch of the Civil Society research Centre, can be found below.

WISERD launched a seminar series aiming to examine the impact of the recession on social and economic life in Wales; and to take stock of the policy responses in Wales in the context of a Westminster government committed to austerity measures. 2008 marked the beginning of the deepest and longest recession of modern times.  While…

The fifth podcast of the WISERD Research Podcast Series is now online:  Professor David Blackaby discusses his findings on regional variations in public-private sector wage differences. Labour Market Implications of Changes in the Public Sector: Inequality and Work Quality: This eighteen-month study examines aspects of work within the public sector compared to the private sector.  It is…