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The inaugural Welsh Retail Summit considered the findings of a new report on Wales’s top 71 cities and towns which reveals increasing polarization between the best and the worst of our high streets. The report’s key findings were presented by Dr Scott Orford, WISERD, Cardiff University and Matthew Hopkinson, the Local Data Company, at Cardiff…

    Media policy in and for Wales should be founded on evidence based on the Welsh market, culture and civil society. And, media policy has yet to realise the realities of devolution. These were amongst some of the key conclusions presented at the latest in the WISERD Civil Society Seminar Series that took place…

  Dr Ceryn Evans presents to the Research User Group   December has seen further key activities as part of WISERD’s engagement work. December 15th saw the meeting of WISERD’s Research User Group – whilst earlier in the month, the Language, Culture and Identity Research Network met on December 4th. Both are integral to linking…

  The 9th Annual Julian Tudor Hart Lecture took place on 9th December in SOCSI. This year’s lecture was titled ‘DIY Welfare or Silver Bullet: The Place of Community in UK Health Policy in the 21st Century’, and was given by Professor Jennie Popay of Lancaster University. The event was sponsored by Public Health Wales and Cardiff University, in partnership with WISERD…

The Welsh Government has published the latest evaluation of its Pupil Deprivation Grant – a programme which sees additional funding being allocated to schools for looked after children and those pupils eligible for free school meals. The report produced by Ipsos MORI and WISERD colleagues shows that: Teachers believe the Pupil Deprivation Grant (PDG) is making…

    Prof Ian Rees Jones, Prof John Morgan and Prof Paul Chaney of WISERD discuss future potential collaboration with Professor Jian Song and colleagues from Renmin University, the leading centre for Population Studies and Demography in China.  

The WISERD Stand was busy at the Wales Council for Voluntary Action Annual Conference 2015. Held in Llandudno, it is the leading third sector conference in Wales. This year’s event was valuable in developing existing strong links between third sector organisations and colleagues working on the Institute’s ESRC- funded Civil Society Programme. Welsh Government minister…

    Research undertaken by social science researchers in Wales was celebrated this week at the launch of a new publication – ‘Making the Case for the Social Sciences 10: Wales’ -published by the Academy of Social Sciences and its Campaign for Social Science. The publication comprises 14 case studies of research carried out by…

Professor Chris Taylor, Co-Director of WISERD and WISERD Education, has been appointed to the HEFCW Student Opportunity and Achievement Committee. This is a new committee that will act as an advisory committee to HEFCW Council. The remit of the Committee is to advise on student opportunity and achievement in higher education, including Welsh medium, initial…

UN Year of Evaluation – Welsh Government Event Series – 17th November 2015 Dr Dan Evans attends the WISERD stand as the Welsh Government picks up the “evaluation torch” with a series of daily policy and research events at the Crown Buildings in Cardiff to mark the UN Year of Evaluation in 2015 (www.unevaluation.org ). WISERD…