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During the recent G7 summit in St Ives, hundreds of protesters gathered to participate in demonstrations and activities about environmental issues. One of the most prominent images in media reports of these protests is of two children on the beach, with a colourful sign reading ‘no one is too small to make a difference’. The…

Mae’n bleser gennym gyhoeddi enillydd ein Cystadleuaeth Poster PhD WISERD 2021 flynyddol. Muhao Du o Brifysgol Caerdydd sydd wedi ennill y wobr am ei boster – ‘Finding Harmony in Hardship: experiences of expatriates in subsidiaries of Chinese MNCs in the high technology sector’. Mae Emma Reardon o Brifysgol Cymru Y Drindod Dewi Sant wedi ennill…

Cydraddoldeb hiliol yng Nghymru oedd ffocws Darlith Flynyddol Canolfan Gwleidyddiaeth a Chymdeithas Cymru 2021 y bu dros 200 o bobl yn ei gwylio’n fyw ar Zoom wythnos diwethaf. Cyflwynwyd y ddarlith, Dangos gwir liwiau: gwleidyddiaeth newidiol cydraddoldeb hiliol yng Nghymru, gan yr Athro Charlotte Williams OBE, Cadeirydd Gweithgor diweddar Llywodraeth Cymru, ‘Cymunedau, Cyfraniadau a Chynefin:…

Dr Peter Mackie and Dr Ian Thomas, are the academic leads for ADR Wales’ Housing and Homelessness body of work. Dr Ian Thomas discusses their plans to explore COVID-19 infection rates amongst people experiencing homelessness in Wales using the COVID-19 test data that is now available for approved researchers to access via the SAIL Databank….

A global demographic shift means that an ageing population creates an unprecedent demand for adult social care. We live in an era when, for the first time, the number of older people (60+ years) will exceed younger people1. In the UK this challenge is magnified by the effects of austerity and welfare state capacity. New…

Local authorities in Wales have had to make difficult decisions to close or rationalise a wide range of services in response to changes in the incidence of COVID-19. This has had major impacts for those sectors of the community most dependent on various forms of service provision.  Where there have been partial closures involving changes…

New research by WISERD Co-Director, Professor Paul Chaney, analyses civil society organisations’ perspectives on the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) in nine former Soviet republics, latterly renamed the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). Namely, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russian Federation, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. Over the past…

Mae Dr Sioned Pearce yn tynnu sylw at effaith COVID-19 ar ddiweithdra ymhlith pobl ifanc. Mewn cyfweliad â BBC Cymru, dywedodd fod y pandemig wedi “gwaethygu materion ansicrwydd” i bobl ifanc sydd â chontractau sero awr, gwaith rhan-amser a swyddi â chyflog isel.  

Dywedodd yr Athro Gwyddorau Cymdeithasol, Chris Taylor, o Brifysgol Caerdydd, fod y bwlch hwn yn parhau i ehangu. “Mae cau ysgolion, wrth gwrs, yn datgelu ac yn pwysleisio’r anfantais ddofn sydd gan lawer o deuluoedd ledled Cymru yn y gwahanol amgylchiadau y maen nhw ynddynt,” meddai. Erthygl y BBC

New research by WISERD Co-Director Professor Paul Chaney analyses civil society organisations’ perspectives on the implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) that was ratified by India in 2008. This is a benchmark study; the first to systematically examine the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights…