News and Blog

Image credit: Credit: Ivan-balvan: Doctor In Protective Gloves Holding Globe With Viruses Closeup Stock Photo – Download Image Now – iStock Three years later the fund, which looks after €10 billion (£8.4 billion) for 25,000 doctors, decided to sell all its fossil fuel investments. The push came from the doctors themselves, through a council of…

Dr Ian Thomas, WISERD Research Fellow and facilitator of WISERD’s Wales Housing and Homelessness Research Network, has submitted his recommendation on what he believes should be the Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee’s main priorities during the Seventh Senedd. Providing these views in response to the latest consultation will help to inform Senedd Cymru with its…

The WISERD Education Team has submitted its views on what it thinks should be the Early Years, Children, Young People and Education Committee’s main priorities during the Seventh Senedd. Providing these views in response to the latest consultation, which closes later this week, will help to inform Senedd Cymru with its strategic planning and forward work…

The WISERD Education Multi Cohort Study (WMCS) team has submitted a recommendation on what it believes should be the Early Years, Children, Young People and Education Committee’s main priority during the Seventh Senedd. Providing these views in response to the latest consultation will help to inform Senedd Cymru with their strategic planning and forward work programme….

A new analysis has highlighted the extent to which young people in Wales experience severe disadvantage during the transition into adulthood. Researchers from the ADR Wales Housing & Homelessness research team followed roughly 61,000 young people from their 16th birthdays for up to nine years, examining records for mental ill-health, drug misuse, alcohol misuse and youth homelessness. The study…

Across the UK, people seeking sanctuary face discrimination and adversity. While public debate often highlights hostile rhetoric on social media or from far-right movements, a quieter but equally powerful form of dehumanisation emerges through the very systems designed to support refugees and asylum seekers. Bureaucratic processes, uneven policy implementation, and resource constraints all contribute to…

A BBC News article published this week showcases how data collected through Llamau’s Upstream Cymru screening surveys has helped identify young people at risk of experiencing homelessness and connect them with early support, changing lives and preventing crises before they happen. Supporting this work has been a longstanding partnership between Llamau and ADR Wales. Llamau…

On Wednesday 8 and Thursday 9 July, the 16th WISERD Annual Conference took place at Cardiff University’s Bute Building, welcoming over 170 delegates. The agenda comprised over 60 paper presentations, seven flashtalks, three plenary sessions, several panels, workshops and symposia, and an exclusive film showing, all under the theme of ‘In Pursuit of Sustainable Futures’….

The WISERD Annual Conference 2026 took place at Cardiff University on Wednesday 8 and Thursday 9 July 2026. Scroll through the gallery below to see some of our favourite moments from the event.                                            …

More people in Wales favour keeping the current Senedd voting system than returning to the old one, according to a new in-depth study of May’s devolved election. Based on a survey of ten thousand people in Wales, the findings show that 35.2% of respondents prefer to keep the system of voting for parties used this…