Martin Jones

Professor Prifysgol Swydd Stafford

Martin.Jones@staffs.ac.uk 01142228377 @SpatialityJones

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Professor Martin Jones took on the role of Vice-Chancellor and Chief Executive of Staffordshire University on January 1, 2022. Having joined Staffordshire University as Deputy Vice-Chancellor in 2017, Professor Jones has led on a broad portfolio of areas including academic and strategic planning, civic engagement, Staffordshire University’s Multi-Academy Trust, social and economic regeneration, research, enterprise and innovation and infrastructure in terms of estates, digital and technical services.

Originally from Staffordshire, Professor Jones studied for his degree at University of Manchester graduating with a BA and PhD in Human Geography. This helped to shape his extensive career as an interdisciplinary researcher and leader in higher education.

He joined Staffordshire University from the University of Sheffield, where he was Director of the White Rose Social Science Doctoral Training Centre (WRDTC). Before this Martin previously held a variety of positions at Aberystwyth University over 15 years, including Pro Vice-Chancellor with portfolio experience in research, enterprise, engagement, and the student experience; and Co-Director of the ESRC-Welsh Government-funded, Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research, Data and Methods (WISERD). Before this, he was a Simon Research Fellow at the University of Manchester, after graduating from Manchester with a BA (1992) and PhD (1997) in Human Geography.

Author or editor of 13 books, Professor Jones is highly regarded internationally for economic and political geography. His latest book Cities and Regions in Crisis: The Political Economy of Sub-National Economic Development was awarded the Regional Studies Association Best Book award 2021. He has also given evidence to UK Government Select Committees on skills, business support, and regional development.

Professor Jones is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and The Royal Society of Arts, holds an honorary professorial position in Oulu, Finland, was awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize for Geography, and is the originator and co-editor of the journal Territory, Politics, Governance.

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Cymdeithas sifil, a strategaethau seiliedig ar lefydd ar gyfer datblygu cynaliadwy

Mae Cymdeithas sifil, a strategaethau seiliedig ar lefydd ar gyfer datblygu cynaliadwy’n cynnal astudiaethau polisi rhanbarthol yng Nghymru, y DU ac Ewrop ac ymchwil weithredol mewn sectorau sylfaenol penodol. Gan ddefnyddio dulliau arloesi cymdeithasol seiliedig ar lefydd, mae’n ystyried i ba raddau mae polisïau twf rhanbarthol yn canolbwyntio ar sectorau sylfaenol ac yn mynd i’r…

Tîm Ymchwil: Bertie Russell (Prifysgol Caerdydd), David Beel (Prifysgol Metropolitan Manceinion), Martin Jones (Prifysgol Swydd Stafford)

Spaces of New Localism: Stakeholder Engagement and Economic Development in Wales and England

Overview This project will utilise a series of interviews and document-based analysis to explore the notion of stakeholder involvement in Local Employment Partnerships (LEPs), Enterprise Zones (EZs), City Deals and City Regions. Fieldwork will take place in four city regions, two within Wales and two within England. 100 semi-structured interviews will be carried out. Two…

Tîm Ymchwil: David Beel (Prifysgol Metropolitan Manceinion), Ian Rees Jones (Prifysgol Caerdydd), Martin Jones (Prifysgol Swydd Stafford)

Social Participation and Identity – NCDS Project

Overview This project was a joint venture with the Institute of Education, Centre for Longitudinal Studies and the ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-cultural change (Manchester University). The main study, funded by ESRC, undertook 180 qualitative interviews with cohort members of the 1958 National Child Development Study. In the first stage of the project WISERD…

Tîm Ymchwil: Alexandra Plows (Prifysgol Bangor), Amanda Coffey (Prifysgol Caerdydd), Gareth Rees (Prifysgol Caerdydd), Gareth S Williams (Old Bell 3 Ltd), Howard Davis (Prifysgol Bangor), Huw Beynon (Prifysgol Caerdydd), Ian Rees Jones (Prifysgol Caerdydd), Ian Stafford (Prifysgol Caerdydd), Jesse Heley (Prifysgol Aberystwyth), Kate Moles (Prifysgol Caerdydd), Laura Jones (Prifysgol Aberystwyth), Martin Jones (Prifysgol Swydd Stafford), Rhys Jones (Prifysgol Aberystwyth)

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North Wales Growth Deal Research Report

This report was produced in November 2022 as part of research undertaken by the Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research and Data (WISERD) as part of its ESRC Centre research programme. Fifteen remote interviews were conducted in English or Welsh (depending on the participant’s choice) by three researchers (Dr Beel, Prof IR Jones, Dr…

Gwaith a marchnadoedd llafur, Lleoliadau, Y Gymdeithas Sifil | Cymdeithas sifil, a strategaethau seiliedig ar lefydd ar gyfer datblygu cynaliadwy | Tachwedd 2022

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Placing the Foundational Economy: An emerging discourse for post-neoliberal economic development

Emerging in the mid-2010s, the Foundational Economy has been heralded as ‘a compelling counter-project against neoliberalism’ and ‘an alternative pathway … [for] progressive political renewal’. Grounded in a review of cross-disciplinary debates, this paper introduces the concept of the Foundational Economy and places it in relation to heterodox geographic theories of socio-economic development such as…

Lleoliadau, Y Gymdeithas Sifil | Economi sylfaenol, dinasyddiaeth a ffurfiau newydd ar berchenogaeth gyffredin | Mai 2022

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Tackling Labour Market Injustice and Organising Workers: The View from a Northern Heartland

This report, based on 42 interviews with workers, trade unionists and other stakeholders, examines the phenomena of low-paid and precarious work in Sheffield. It focuses on the factors driving the prevalence of such work (including the links with welfare reform), the experiences of workers in seven distinct employment sectors, as well as trade union responses…

Anghydraddoldeb, Gwaith a marchnadoedd llafur, Lleoliadau, Y Gymdeithas Sifil | Gorffennaf 2021

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City region limits: Questioning city-centric growth narratives in medium-sized cities

In this paper, we consider the implications of applying the city region concept to a medium-sized city and whether such an application of a spatial and governmental policy is appropriate when the central city in question is also not necessarily economically dominant or connected to its wider city-region. This gives a deeper understanding to the…

Lleoliadau, Y Gymdeithas Sifil | Mai 2021

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City Regions and Devolution in the UK: The Politics of Representation

In recent years, the ‘city region’ has seen a renaissance as the de-facto spatial centre of governance for economic and social development. Rich in case study insights, this book provides an overview of city region building and considers how governance restructuring shapes political, economic, social and cultural landscapes. Reviewing the Greater Manchester, Sheffield, Swansea Bay…

Lleoliadau, Y Gymdeithas Sifil | Mawrth 2021

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Region, Place, Devolution: Geohistory still matters

The Routledge Handbook of Place: Part 1 – Situating Place, Chapter 4 (ed) Tim Edensor, Ares Kalandides, Uma Kothari This chapter looks at the relationship between place and region through the lens of the place-making politics of devolution and localism in Britain; England and Wales specifically. We revisit Paasi’s treatise on regions in geography and suggest…

Lleoliadau, Y Gymdeithas Sifil | Poblyddiaeth, gwrthdaro a pholareiddio gwleidyddol | Mehefin 2020

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Urban growth strategies in rural regions: building The North Wales Growth Deal

This paper discusses the creation of a growth deal for North Wales (The North Wales Growth Deal – NWGD). North Wales is primarily a rural region within the UK, withoutacore-city or large metropolitan centre.The paper examines how this urban dynamic, fostered around a pushing of the agglomerative growth model out of the city-region, is being…

Lleoliadau, Y Gymdeithas Sifil | Spaces of New Localism: Stakeholder Engagement and Economic Development in Wales and England | Tachwedd 2019

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Cities and Regions in Crisis: The Political Economy of Sub-National Economic Development

Offering a geographical political economy analysis, this book explores the mechanisms, institutions, and spaces of subnational economic development. Martin Jones innovatively examines how policy-makers frame problems and offer intervention solutions in different cities and regions. Drawing on different approaches to state intervention, neoliberalism, crisis and contradiction theories, and notions of depoliticisation, this book explains policy…

Lleoliadau, Y Gymdeithas Sifil | Mawrth 2019

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The march of governance and the actualities of failure: the case of economic development twenty years on

Twenty years ago, Bob Jessop (1998) published a defining piece on the “rise of governance” and the “risks of failure”, using the example of economic development to frame concerns with the state of capitalism at that time. This charted the rise of governance, outlined key governance practices, and offered preliminary reflections on the nature, forms,…

Y Gymdeithas Sifil | Ionawr 2019

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Elite city-deals for economic growth? Problematizing the complexities of devolution, city-region building, and the (re)positioning of civil society

The concept of localism and spatial delineation of the ‘city region’ have seen a renaissance as the de facto spatial political units of governance for economic development. One articulation of this has seen the creation of Cardiff Capital Region (CCR) to potentially enhance Wales’s poor economic performance and secure democratic forms of social cohesion. City…

Lleoliadau, Y Gymdeithas Sifil | Spaces of New Localism: Stakeholder Engagement and Economic Development in Wales and England | Hydref 2018

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Handbook on the Geographies of Regions and Territories

This new international Handbook provides the reader with the most up-to-date and original viewpoints on critical debates relating to the rapidly transforming geographies of regions and territories, as well as related key concepts such as place, scale, networks and regionalism. Bringing together renowned specialists who have extensively theorized these spatial concepts and contributed to rich…

Lleoliadau, Y Gymdeithas Sifil | Gorffennaf 2018

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New consolidated regional geographies

Region and territory have been major keywords of geographical thinking, methodology and research practice since the institutionalization of geography as an academic discipline at the end of the nineteenth century. Even before this, region and territory were fundamental categories, with some authors tracing the roots of Regional Geography to classical Greece (Claval 1998). However, it…

Lleoliadau, Y Gymdeithas Sifil | Gorffennaf 2018

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Forging an inclusive labour market – empowering workers and communities : an interim report on low pay and precarious work in Sheffield

The Sheffield Needs A Pay Rise (SNAP) is a campaign that has been initiated by Sheffield Trades Union Council (STUC). The impetus for the campaign was the earlier creation of the Britain Needs A Pay Rise organising theme by the national Trades Union Congress1 in the autumn of 2014. STUC has sought to develop this…

Gwaith a marchnadoedd llafur | Mehefin 2018

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Regionalisation and civil society in a time of austerity: the cases of Manchester and Sheffield

Within the UK and further afield, the spatial delineation of the ‘city-region’ has seen a renaissance as the de facto spatial political unit of governance driven by economic development. This spatial realignment has been central to the construction of Northern Powerhouse and has rested alongside other agendas such as devolution, localism and austerity. The chapter…

Lleoliadau, Y Gymdeithas Sifil | Spaces of New Localism: Stakeholder Engagement and Economic Development in Wales and England | Tachwedd 2017

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Re-stating the post-political: Depoliticization, social inequalities, and city-region growth

This paper argues that city-region building debates and relatedly “post-political” literatures are missing critical perspectives on the state, particularly the state’s continued existence as a social relation and an arena for politics, its role in the regulation of uneven development and the conflicts and struggles that arise from this. The paper brings the state centrally…

Y Gymdeithas Sifil | Tachwedd 2017

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Connected growth: Developing a framework to drive inclusive growth across a city-region

This ‘in perspective’ piece addresses the (re-)positioning of civil society within new structures of city-region governance within Greater Manchester. This follows on from the processes of devolution, which have given the Greater Manchester City-Region a number of new powers. UK devolution, to date, has been largely focused upon engendering agglomerated economic growth at the city-region…

Lleoliadau, Y Gymdeithas Sifil | Spaces of New Localism: Stakeholder Engagement and Economic Development in Wales and England | Awst 2017

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City-Region Building and Geohistorical Matters

Book chapter in Reanimating Regions, Riding, J. and Jones, M. (eds). This chapter looks at the ‘new new localism’ and suggests the need to now think about the dawn of a ‘new regional geography’. City-region-based agglomerations are currently riding high on the political and policy agenda across the world. Their emergence is not accidental; they are…

Lleoliadau, Y Gymdeithas Sifil | Spaces of New Localism: Stakeholder Engagement and Economic Development in Wales and England | Mai 2017

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Reanimating Regions: Culture, Politics and Performance

Writing regions, undertaking a regional study, was once a standard form of geographic communication and critique. This was until the quantitative revolution in the middle of the previous century and more definitively the critical turn in human geography towards the end of the twentieth century. From then on writing regions as they were experienced phenomenologically,…

Lleoliadau, Y Gymdeithas Sifil | Spaces of New Localism: Stakeholder Engagement and Economic Development in Wales and England | Mai 2017

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The International Encyclopedia of Geography: Regional Geography

Regions have been central to geography, and the discipline of geography can be traced through the different ways in which “the region” has been interpreted. Geographers have talked about traditional regional geography, the new regional geography, and the new regionalism. The current “new new regional geography” debate centers on whether regions can be seen as…

Lleoliadau, Y Gymdeithas Sifil | Mawrth 2017

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The International Encyclopedia of Geography: Regulation

Regulation, the process of regulating or being regulated, is a geographical concern. Contra the thought processes of neoclassical economics and the assumptions of equilibrium and optimality, everything else is neither equal nor without hands. The economy, for instance, is not an unmediated outcome of universal and transhistorical processes operating across a featureless and stateless isotropic…

Y Gymdeithas Sifil | Mawrth 2017

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New localism, new localities…

This chapter explores theoretical insights into the rhetoric of decentralist discourses and the geographical complexities and contradictions of local state remaking on the ground. It argues that by attempting to link economic and social policy in local contexts, the Government’s new localism is profound and needs to be more fully theorised in undertaking geographical political…

Lleoliadau, Y Gymdeithas Sifil | Mawrth 2017

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Regulation, governance and agglomeration: making links in city-region research

This paper provides an overview and synthesis of debates pertaining to the development of city-regions and their applicability to the UK space economy. The purpose is to make links to advance both international academic debates and realpolitik policy knowledge concerns. The paper, firstly, traces the multifarious and at times disconnected academic discussions around the concepts…

Lleoliadau, Y Gymdeithas Sifil | Spaces of New Localism: Stakeholder Engagement and Economic Development in Wales and England | Rhagfyr 2016

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The city-region chimera: the political economy of metagovernance failure in Britain

Within the context of spatial rebalancing and a Northern (metro-region) Powerhouse, this article explores the implementation of the devolution of employment and skills within the Sheffield city region. We make both an original empirical and analytical contribution by suggesting that notions of governance and metagovernance failure are important for analyzing the development, tensions and contradictions…

Lleoliadau, Y Gymdeithas Sifil | Spaces of New Localism: Stakeholder Engagement and Economic Development in Wales and England | Mai 2016

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People, places, policies: knowing contemporary Wales through new localities

Set within the context of UK devolution and constitutional change, People, Places and Policy offers important and interesting insights into ‘place-making’ and ‘locality-making’ in contemporary Wales. Combining policy research with policy-maker and stakeholder interviews at various spatial scales (local, regional, national), it examines the historical processes and working practices that have produced the complex political…

Lleoliadau, Y Gymdeithas Sifil | Medi 2015

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Introducing WISERD localities

It is uncontested that Wales has a relatively short history of administrative devolution when compared to Scotland and Northern Ireland, if not England (see Osmond, 1978). Jenkins’s cutting analysis makes some of this clear: After its conquest by Edward I in 1278, and its incorporation into England three centuries later by the Tudors, it had…

Lleoliadau | Awst 2015

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New localities in action and reaction

This book has been about the WISERD locality research programme, which has operated in the context of a devolved Wales. The spatial backdrop has initially been the Wales Spatial Plan (WSP) and its fuzzy boundaries, and more recently notions of ‘spatial complexity’ associated with the Williams Commission on Public Governance and Delivery. As detailed in…

Lleoliadau | Awst 2015

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Guest Editorial: Regional World(s): Advancing the Geography of Regions

But what, after all, is ‘the regional’? A region can be as largeas the European peninsula. Within the political enterprisethat is the European Union, however, regions subdivide acontinent already sliced up into nation-states – and eventhen what counts as a region is far from certain. Accordingto the latest Map of European Regions, a region might…

Lleoliadau, Y Gymdeithas Sifil | Rhagfyr 2012

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New Localities

During the mid-to-late 1980s, ‘locality’ was the spatial metaphor to describe and explain the shifting world of regional studies. The paper argues that the resulting ‘localities debate’ threw this baby out with the bathwater and rather than invent new concepts to capture socio-spatial relations in the twenty-first century, the paper urges a ‘return to locality’…

Lleoliadau | Tachwedd 2012

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Space and Spatiality in Theory

This article is an edited transcript of a panel discussion on Space and Spatiality in Theory which was held at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Washington, DC, April 2010. In the article, the panel map out some of the challenges for thinking, writing and performing spaces in the 21st century, reflecting…

Lleoliadau | Mawrth 2012

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Rescaling the State: Devolution and the Geographies of Economic Governance

Rescaling the State provides a theoretically-informed and empirically-rich account of the processes of devolution undertaken in the UK since 1997, focusing in particular on the devolution of economic governance. Using case studies from England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, the book examines the purported reasons for, and unintended consequences of, the UK’s asymmetrical devolution settlement….

Lleoliadau, Y Gymdeithas Sifil | Ionawr 2012

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Renewing urban politics

Paul Peterson’s (1981) City Limits was to become one of several landmark publications in the study of urban politics during the 1980s and 1990s. It pioneered the argument that, amid the unravelling of the 1960s Great Society welfare accord and associated War on Poverty1 and now confronting the deindustrialisation of their maturing economies and the…

Lleoliadau, Y Gymdeithas Sifil | Medi 2011

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The local in the global

Lleoliadau, Y Gymdeithas Sifil | Chwefror 2011

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Impedimenta state: Anatomies of neoliberal penality

Punishing the Poor avers not only that the United States has shifted from the single (welfare) to the double (social-cum-penal) regulation of the poor, but also that the ‘stunted development of American social policy’ skilfully dissected by Piven and Cloward stands in close causal and functional relation to America’s uniquely overgrown and hyperactive penal policy….

Anghydraddoldeb, Lleoliadau | Tachwedd 2010

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Territorial/relational: Conceptualizing spatial economic governance

Lleoliadau | Tachwedd 2010

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Thinking State/Space Incompossibly

This paper develops multi-dimensional analyses of socio-spatial relations. Building on previous research, we identify some tensions associated with different dimensions of socio-spatiality and introduce the theme of compossible and, more importantly, incompossible socio-spatial configurations. Two short studies are deployed to highlight the socio-spatial implications of the principle that not everything that is possible is compossible. The first…

Lleoliadau | Hydref 2010

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Limits to ‘thinking space relationally’

This paper is written by a geographer and discusses the importance of ‘thinking space relationally’ in, and for, the social sciences. According to its advocates, relational thinking insists on an open-ended, mobile, networked and actor-centred geographic becoming. I position relational space within the lineage of philosophical approaches to space, drawing on examples taken mainly from…

Lleoliadau | Awst 2010

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City Regions: New Geographies of Uneven Development and Inequality

Etherington D. and Jones M. City-regions: new geographies of uneven development and inequality, Regional Studies. Recent years have witnessed a burgeoning literature on the ‘new regionalism’. Protagonists have made persuasive arguments about regions as successful models of economic and social development. This paper argues that the championing of ‘city-regions’ provides an opportunity for taking these debates further. It…

Anghydraddoldeb, Gwaith a marchnadoedd llafur, Lleoliadau | Ebrill 2009

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Phase space: Geography, relational thinking and beyond

Recent years have witnessed a burgeoning of work on `thinking space relationally’. According to its advocates, relational thinking challenges human geography by insisting on an open-ended, mobile, networked, and actor-centred geographic becoming. The paper discusses the importance of this `relational turn’ by positioning it within the lineage of philosophical approaches to space in geography. Following…

Lleoliadau | Mawrth 2009

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Adroddiad newydd WISERD ar Fargen Twf Gogledd Cymru

9 Rhagfyr 2022 | Bertie Russell, David Beel, Ian Rees Jones, Kevin Morgan, Martin Jones

Fel rhan o raglen ymchwil Canolfan Cymdeithas Sifil a ariennir gan ESRC WISERD, mae tîm o ymchwilwyr WISERD wedi cyhoeddi adroddiad newydd ar y broses o ddatblygu a gweithredu Bargen Twf Gogledd Cymru (NWGD), yn seiliedig ar arsylwadau o gyfres o gyfweliadau gyda rhanddeiliaid rhwng mis Gorffennaf i fis Rhagfyr 2021. Cynhaliwyd pymtheg cyfweliad o…

Lleoliadau, Y Gymdeithas Sifil | Cymdeithas sifil, a strategaethau seiliedig ar lefydd ar gyfer datblygu cynaliadwy

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Sheffield Needs a Payrise

16 Gorffennaf 2018 | David Beel, Martin Jones

The Sheffield Needs A Payrise (SNAP) research project follows the campaign of the same name and builds on the WISERD Spaces of New Localism Civil Society research project. It looks primarily into forms of grassroots, civil society and trade union working together to address issues of low pay and precariousness in work in Sheffield. SNAP…

Gwaith a marchnadoedd llafur, Lleoliadau, Y Gymdeithas Sifil | Spaces of New Localism: Stakeholder Engagement and Economic Development in Wales and England

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Strong WISERD presence at the National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) Annual Research Conference

8 Medi 2017 | Christala Sophocleous, Daniel Wincott, David Beel, David Dallimore, Howard Davis, Ian Rees Jones, Marta Eichsteller, Martin Jones, Paul Chaney, Robin Mann

Work from WISERD’s Civil Society Research Programme featured prominently at the National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) Annual Conference in Nottingham, September 7-8. The WISERD stand (pictured) did brisk business with high levels of interest from conference-goers. Dr David Dalimore (WISERD, Bangor University) gave a paper on ‘Place, Belonging and the Determinants of Volunteering’. This presented…

Anghydraddoldeb, Lleoliadau, Y Gymdeithas Sifil | Researching Civic Participation in Wales in place and over time, Spaces of New Localism: Stakeholder Engagement and Economic Development in Wales and England, Territoriality and Third Sector Engagement in Policy-Making and Welfare Provision

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Devolution – no strings attached?

19 Rhagfyr 2016 | David Beel, David Etherington, Martin Jones

The Sheffield City Region (SCR) faces considerable problems in terms of economic and social inequality. As the Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS) emphasises, there has been a marked decline in living standards in the UK, which is projected to continue. The Sheffield City Region has the highest concentration of those in work and paid below…

Anghydraddoldeb, Y Gymdeithas Sifil | Spaces of New Localism: Stakeholder Engagement and Economic Development in Wales and England

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Professor Martin Jones’s research headlines Yorkshire Post

23 Medi 2016 | Martin Jones

Front page coverage on research from Professor Martin Jones regarding WISERD Civil Society research.

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‘People, Places and Policy: Knowing contemporary Wales through new localities’ – A new WISERD book published

5 Hydref 2015 | Martin Jones, Scott Orford, Victoria Macfarlane

Our book has finally been published! We say finally, because the idea for the book started to take shape five years ago during the first phase of WISERD. During this phase we were interested in understanding how different localities in Wales were behaving in relation to devolution and devolved policy areas and we developed a research strand…

Gwaith a marchnadoedd llafur, Iechyd, Lles a Gofal Cymdeithasol, Y Gymdeithas Sifil | Knowing Localities: Welsh and the Labour Market

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Lansio Llyfrau gan WISERD – ‘City Regions and Devolution in the UK’ a ‘The Political Economy of Industrial Strategy in the UK’

19 Mai 2021

Ymunwch â ni wrth i ni lansio dau lyfr a chynnal trafodaeth gyda’r awduron, ochr yn ochr â sylwadau gan banel o fri fydd yn cynnwys Dr. Arianna Giovannini (Prifysgol De Montfort), Dr. Neil McInroy (CLES) a’r Athro Kevin Morgan (Prifysgol Caerdydd). Mae’r digwyddiad hwn yn agored i bawb, ond byddai o ddiddordeb arbennig i…

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Cyflawni Bargeinion Dinesig yng Nghymru

18 Medi 2019 | Abertawe

Bydd yr ail Symposiwm ar Fargeinion Dinesig yn ystyried darpariaeth y pedair Bargen Ddinesig a’r Partneriaethau Datblygu yng Nghymru; yn rhanbarth Dinas Caerdydd; Bae Abertawe; Canolbarth Cymru a gogledd Cymru. Bydd y sesiynau’n edrych ar ddyheadau’r Bargeinion Ddinesig hyn a bargeinion twf, gan gynnwys papurau a thrafodaethau ynghylch eu llywodraethu a’u dyheadau o ran tyfu….

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New Localities: Economic and Social Geographies in Wales

13 Mai 2010 | Caerdydd

Speaker: Professor Martin Jones, Aberystwyth University This seminar was the third of the Cardiff School of Social Sciences Spring Seminar Series 2010 where colleagues from WISERD partner universities presented their work.