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WISERD’s Centre for Welsh Politics and Society is based at Aberystwyth University

Click here to view the article “High-rise student flats – what is driving the developers’ latest craze and is it sustainable?” by Will Hayward on Wales Online

Findings from the WISERD Civil Society project, ‘Territoriality and Third Sector Engagement in Policy-making and Welfare Provision’, were recently presented to two of China’s leading institutions. WISERD Co-Director, Professor Paul Chaney, gave a presentation to the leading Chinese Government Research body, the Beijing-based Institute of Economic Reform. He outlined research findings on the impact of…

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…

Dr Alexandra Plows’ report on the north Wales economy is covered in an article about the Assembly Commission’s first Academic Fellowship. A link to the article can be found below: https://seneddresearch.blog/2017/07/04/the-north-wales-economy-thoughts-from-the-assembly-commissions-first-academic-fellowship/

On 27th June, WISERD Co-director, Professor Paul Chaney discussed the third sector’s relationship with the state with a mixed audience of assembly members, policy-makers, practitioners and members of the public, at the Pierhead Building in Cardiff Bay, as part of the National Assembly for Wales’s Exchanging Ideas seminar. He argued that issues of voluntary sector…

Dr Dyfan Powel shares research findings on what young people think about Brexit.

Professor David Blackaby comments on issues surrounding the electrification of the railway line between Cardiff and Swansea on ITV’s ‘Good Morning’.

  There is a well-established conventional wisdom that today’s young people are a politically alienated generation, meaning that they are seen as estranged or withdrawn from politics. Whether it is their low turnout in elections or their support for protest and social movements, the young are held up as a generation put off politics by…