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The Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research, Data and Method (WISERD) has appointed a new Director, based at Cardiff University. Professor Gareth Rees will lead the Institute which aims to strengthen social science research capacity across Wales through cooperation, joint projects and associated links with centres of excellence across the UK and internationally. WISERD…

Dr Kate Moles, WISERD, Cardiff University; Dr Angharad Saunders, University of Glamorgan; Dorian Morgan and Aled Rowlands, BBC Wales have been working in the Ebbw Vale community to produce three audio walks around Ebbw Vale, through the voices, memories and stories of the residents.  There are three walks; an industrial walk overlooking the site of…

Dr Robin Mann (WISERD Bangor) will represent WISERD at the upcoming National Eisteddfod to be held in The Works, Ebbw Vale from 31 July to 7 August. He will deliver a presentation entitled WISERD: Changing the Research Landscape in Wales as part of the Cardiff University exhibition. WISERD will also be represented in the form…

The first WISERD summer conference “Knowing Wales: People, Place, Policy”, was held in Cardiff on the 28th and 29th of June 2010. Over a hundred delegates from higher education and the public and voluntary sectors across Wales were in attendance to listen to speakers engaged in social science research discussing topics as diverse as health…

Professor Michael Burawoy has become a regular visitor to Cardiff and he was with us once again in February to attend a WISERD Advisory Board meeting. His extended stay was facilitated by the Centre for Global Labour Research which provided Michael with a Montague Burton Visiting Fellowship. During his time in Cardiff, Professor Burawoy delivered…

The formal launch of WISERD took place at the Senedd Building on 22 October 2009. Present were a large audience of invited academics, policy makers and colleagues from non-governmental organisations.  Guests gathered to hear speeches made by the WISERD Director Huw Beynon, Pro Vice Chancellor for Research for Cardiff University Professor Teresa Rees, Chief Executive…