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On Monday 11th April WISERD Co-Director Professor Paul Chaney addressed a research community building conference at Cardiff SWALEC Stadium organised by Cardiff University’s new Crime and Security Research Institute (CSRI). This engagement activity is part of ongoing work to develop social science collaboration in Wales. Under the Directorship of Professor Martin Innes, the CSRI will…

Dr Smith joins the Welsh Crucible – an award-winning programme of personal, professional and leadership development for the future research leaders of Wales. Welsh Crucible is based on NESTA’s highly esteemed ‘Crucible’ development programme, and has been informed by the successes of the Scottish Crucible.  The Programme has recently established collaborative links with The Learned Society of Wales, who…

Danny Dorling will deliver a lecture titled ‘A Better Politics: How government can make us happier and healthier’ for the next Julian Tudor Hart Annual Lecture in July. The talk, in collaboration with Cardiff University School of Social Sciences, Public Health Wales and Cardiff Institute of Society, Health and Wellbeing (CISHeW), will make the argument that if we start by…

Professor David Blackaby comments on the steel crisis, and was featured in a major US news outlet report. The article can be viewed by following the link below. http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/04/22/one-uk-steel-town-one-crisis-that-affects-nation.html

The Western Mail Weekend pages features an article on the steel industry and quotes Prof Louise Miskell, Prof David Blackaby, Dr Bleddyn Penney and Kevin Sullivan. The article, accessed through Wales Online, can be found below. https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/what-now-port-talbot-steel-11179848

Dr Stuart Fox and Dr Sioned Pearce look at the role of young people in Wales in the European referendum in a piece for the IWA news analysis magazine, which can be found below. http://www.iwa.wales/click/2016/04/young-people-and-europe/

Professor Howard Davies featured in The Conversation looking at the latest employment figures – and the problems that lie beneath the surface of the country’s economy, despite months of positive headlines. The article, published by the Conversation, can be viewed by following the link below. https://theconversation.com/jobs-figures-mask-bogus-self-employment-in-the-shadow-economy-58017

Professor David Blackaby was interviewed on a number of programmes speaking about Tata Steel’s plans to sell its UK operations, including Port Talbot Steelworks

  It has been common practice for some time – and perhaps now more than ever – for journalists to emphasise the political differences between young and old in areas such as voting preferences or political agendas, and to frame those differences in terms of generational ‘conflict’ or ‘war’. With the exception of electoral turnout,…