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On June 10th Professor Paul Chaney was an invited plenary speaker at the Research in Practice Leaders’ Forum Conference in Birmingham. The Forum brings together Directors, assistant directors and strategic managers across a network of 80+ major third sector organisations and local authorities. This year’s conference centred on the topic of devolution and its implications…

Euronews (France) quote Professor David Blackaby in a report on post-Brexit Britain, and the societal divides the vote in June 2016 caused. The article can be found via the link.  

Euronews (France) quote Professor David Blackaby in a report on post-Brexit manufacturing. A link to the article is provided.

Listen to our latest podcast from Professor Mick Moran speaking at the WISERD CRESC Radical Social Innovation Colloquium last week. Michael Moran is Professor of Government at the Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, UK, where he also previously held the W.J.M. Mackenzie Chair in Government. A Fellow of the British Academy, he is a…

WISERD Civil Society WP3.2: Implications of Spatial & Temporal Variation in Service Provision for Inequalities in Social Outcomes This work package will undertake a comprehensive review of the literature on social capital with a particular focus on community level measures at a range of spatial scales. The ultimate aim is to critically assess the suitability of existing secondary…

Updates on the WISERD Annual Conference! The WISERD Annual Conference offers delegates an insight into current social science research through keynote addresses, plenary sessions, workshops and exhibitions. For more information on the Conference and to book visit: www.wiserd.ac.uk/training-events/annual-conference-2016/ This year’s speaker titles are now confirmed: The Right Honourable Rhodri Morgan – The Services/Manufacturing Balance and the Welsh…

Dr Sioned Pearce’s guest blog for The London School of Economics and Political Science: The philosophers have only interpreted the world…The point, however, is to change it (Karl Marx 1888) Drawing from a recent study on how impact occurs in the social sciences, Sioned Pearce looks at some specific issues with the case study approach to understanding impact….

Public engagement used to be something I shied away from but in the past month I have taken part in two public engagement events to present the work of the IDEAL study and even discussed them on BBC Radio Wales.  In the past I worried about how to translate research to the public in a meaningful and engaging…

Dr Stuart Fox was interviewed by The Christian Science Monitor on his blog Religion & The EU Referendum. The blog post can be found here.

Professor David Blackaby interviewed on Share Radio’s ‘Morning Money’ about his research into the Steel crisis