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The National Assembly for Wales’ Health, Social Care and Sport Committee heard evidence earlier today on the draft national dementia strategy, ‘Together for a Dementia Friendly Wales 2017 – 2022’. Organisations such as The Alzheimer’s Society, Age Cymru, the Wales Carers Alliance and representatives from a range of healthcare professions shared their views on how…

Professor Michael Woods was interviewed on BBC Radio Wales’s ‘Good Morning Wales’ about the Brexit debate in Aberystwyth and the launch of the WISERD Centre for Welsh Politics and Society.

Dr Rhys Dafydd Jones and Dr Elin Royles were interviewed on BBC Radio Cymru (Dr Rhys Dafydd Jones on Post Cyntaf, and Dr Elin Royles on Post Prynhawn) talking about the Brexit debate in Aberystwyth and the launch of the WISERD Centre for Welsh Politics and Society.

A disability report co-authored by WISERD researchers was highlighted in Prime Minister’s Questions. The report in question can be accessed via the link below. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0Bzw2IXFPZj72S0EwenJzNFRNLUE

Finding strategies to live well with dementia is increasingly a focus of UK government policy.  But, we know relatively about what living well with dementia means to the people and families affected by it, or what factors support living well and what factors act as a barrier to living well. I’m a qualitative researcher based…

The Brexit debate, ‘Brexit and Wales – The Key Questions’, which took place in Aberystwyth alongside the launch of the WISERD Centre for Welsh Politics and Society received coverage online from Welsh medium magazine’s. Lleol Cymru The Ceredigion Herald

The second annual report from the Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research, Data and Methods (WISERD) and the Local Data Company (LDC) reveals the contradictory dynamics of the retail landscape in Wales and how this has changed over the past year. It also highlights the wide variance and make-up of Welsh towns along with…

Recommendations made by the Wales Institute for Social and Economic Research, Data and Methods (WISERD) and Cardiff University, as part of an independent three-year evaluation commissioned by the Welsh Government, have been used as part of the Welsh Government’s Foundation Phase Action Plan. The Foundation Phase is an exciting, flagship policy that marks a radical…

The IMAJINE project (Integrative Mechanisms for Addressing Spatial Justice and Territorial Inequalities in Europe) led by the Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research, Data and Methods (WISERD) team at Aberystwyth University was launched in Brussels on Wednesday 18th January 2017, with a meeting of the consortium partners. IMAJINE is a pioneering new research project…

Research by Professor Sally Power about young people’s social media use during the night has been covered extensively online recently. The Science News Journal TES