Prosiectau Ymchwil – Sefydliad Ymchwil Cymdeithasol ac Economaidd a Data Cymru

Higher Education and Civil Society

Overview This project explored the relationships between participation in higher education and engagement in civil society, especially at the local level. Do university graduates play a distinctive role in the institutions of civil society? More specifically, it examined the extent to which the institutional shift from an elite to a mass system of higher education has…

Research Team: Ceryn Evans (Prifysgol Caerdydd), Chris Taylor (Prifysgol Caerdydd), Gareth Rees (Prifysgol Caerdydd), Stuart Fox (Brunel University London)

Impact and Effectiveness of Widening Access to Higher Education

The overall aim of the proposed research was to demonstrate the effectiveness of the secondary analysis of administrative data-sets to delineate patterns of participation in higher education (HE) and, thereby, to contribute to the development of policy and professional practice in widening access in Wales (and more widely). The project was based upon a collaboration between the…

Research Team: Caroline Wright (University of Bristol), Ceryn Evans (Prifysgol Caerdydd), Chris Taylor (Prifysgol Caerdydd), Gareth Rees (Prifysgol Caerdydd), Rhys Davies (Prifysgol Caerdydd), Stephen Drinkwater (Prifysgol Roehampton LLundain)

WISERD Addysg

Overview WISERD Education has the potential to change the landscape of education research in Wales and will put Wales at the forefront of research capacity building developments in the UK and beyond. The main aims of the Programme are: to enhance the capacity to carry out high quality educational research within the higher education sector in Wales;…

Research Team: Alan Felstead (Prifysgol Caerdydd), Carmel Conn (Prifysgol De Cymru), Ceryn Evans (Prifysgol Caerdydd), Chris Taylor (Prifysgol Caerdydd), Emma Renold (Prifysgol Caerdydd), Jessica Clapham (Prifysgol Bangor), Judith Kneen (Prifysgol Metropolitan Caerdydd), Kevin Smith (Prifysgol Caerdydd), Sally Power (Prifysgol Caerdydd), Susan Wyn Jones (Prifysgol Bangor)