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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,…

  As the official referendum campaign gets underway, polling continues to highlight the vital role Millennials will play in deciding the outcome. They are becoming (albeit slightly) even more supportive of EU membership, even though overall levels of support have remained relatively stable, and young people who support EU membership are – unlike their elder counterparts – more…

Report on the steel crisis, and on the option of replacing the blast furnaces at Port Talbot with electric arc furnaces which critics claim produce lower-grade steel –  Professor David Blackaby is quoted saying that the “only way for Britain to survive as a steelmaker is to produce high-quality steel”. The report can be found…