News and Blog

In the last few of months, we have welcomed several new members of staff to WISERD, to work on a variety of new and existing projects. This week we’ll be focusing on two Cardiff based members of staff – Dr Sioned Pearceand Dr Dan Evans. Here, they tell us a bit about their backgrounds, research interests, and what they’ll be doing at WISERD. …

Location: Alun Buildings, Bangor University Dates: 23rd March 2015 – Start: 10:00am, Finish: 7:00pm 24th March 2015 –  Start: 9:00am, Finish: 3:30pm Overview: To commemorate the 70th Anniversary of the election of the first majority Labour government in 1945, the School of History, Welsh History and Archaeology will be hosting a conference on the history of the Labour…

In collaboration with Public Health Wales, the Cardiff School of Social Science, WISERD and CISHeW View the film of the 2014 lecture ‘Include Me Out. Exclude You In: imagining the future of primary care’ presented by Professor Graham Watt, Norrie Miller Professor of General Practice University of Glasgow. Professor Watt’s slides cover some of the…

The Wales Institute of Social & Economic Research, Data & Methods (WISERD) will celebrate the launch of its flagship WISERD Civil Society Research Centre on Thursday 5th February, 2015. WISERD has received funding in excess of £10 million to found a national research centre which will undertake a five year innovative and far-reaching research programme…

Preliminary results from the Evaluating the Foundation Phase second report for Welsh Government received significant online coverage from local media. ITV – http://www.itv.com/news/wales/2015-01-20/first-ministers-questions/ Wales Online – https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/foundation-phase-hoped-break-link-8409110 BBC News – http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-30718293

First Minister Carwyn Jones comments on the Evaluating the Foundation Phase second report for Welsh Government – following questions from Welsh Lib Dem Leader Kirsty Williams. A copy of the coverage can be accessed below. https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/pressures-wales-ae-easing-first-8482982

One of the UK’s leading social policy experts, Professor John Hills, headlines an impressive panel for a book launch organised by the Bevan Foundation and the Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research, Data and Methods (WISERD). Professor Hills, Director of the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion at the London School of Economics, will…

The “GIS for Public Health” 1 day workshop introduces a Geographic Information System (GIS) as a tool for use in public health research. This workshop is aimed at public health practitioners who have little or no experience in using GIS and would like to develop the skills to link spatially referenced data to health data….

A WISERD affiliated book entitled ‘Page and Place: On-going Compositions of Plot’, authored by Jon Anderson (Cardiff School of Planning and Geography, Cardiff University) has been published by Rodopi. The book explores how literature can help us understand the nature of the relations between people and place, how humans create connections between their identities and…

WISERD is seeking an experienced researcher to work on a project within the WISERD Civil Society research centre. The project will explore the relationships between participation in higher education and engagement in civil society, especially at the local level; and will consider questions such as: do university graduates play a distinctive role in the institutions…