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Professor Melanie Jones’s article Disability and labour market outcomes is a featured article on IZA World of Labor’s website. A link to the article can be found here.

BBC Radio 5 Live Wake up to Money focuses on the steel crisis

An interview with Professor David Blackaby, School of Management, was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on the Tata announcement and the numbers of and implications for the workforce in Wales.

Coverage in the Financial Times on Dr Stuart Fox and Dr Sioned Pearce’s research on young people and the EU referendum

    Dr Elin Royles reflects on the WISERD Civil Society Seminar that took place at Aberystwyth University on 16 March 2016: How do education policies and policies guiding the work of organisations working with young people attempt to influence their sense of identities? That was the question guiding Prof Rhys Jones and Dr Elin…

This project is currently considering the potential value of an analysis of virtual patterns of trade union organisation and mobilisation and specifically the contribution of social media to the rescaling of trade unionism. This includes both: the virtual linkages of the trade union movement with other forms of social and political activism; and the virtual…

Bookings are now open for Wales’ largest social science conference! The WISERD Annual Conference offers delegates an insight into current social science research through keynote addresses, plenary sessions, workshops and exhibitions. This year the conference is taking place on Wednesday 13th July & Thursday 14th July 2016 at Swansea University Bay Campus. We are delighted to welcome Ottón Solís, Founder member…

  Since David Cameron announced the date of the EU referendum, the gulf in support for EU membership between young and old – not to mention the gulf in the likelihood of voting – has featured heavily in media coverage and opinion polling about the referendum campaign. An explanation for that gulf in support, however,…

    On Wednesday 16th March, Dr Robin Mann, Professor Howard Davis, Dr David Dallimore and Dr Marta Eichsteller presented their emergent findings from the WISERD Civil Society project ‘Researching Civil Participation, in Place, and Over Time’ at Bangor University. The seminar was entitled: ‘Bowling Alone? Civil Society in a North East Wales Village’. The…

Location: Alun Buildings, Bangor University Dates: 23rd March 2015 – Start: 10:00am, Finish: 7:00pm 24th March 2015 –  Start: 9:00am, Finish: 3:30pm – See more at: http://wiserd.ac.uk/news/latest-news/shaping-labour-party/#sthash.w7r8jDYI.dpuf WISERD is committed to delivering a series of Training & Capacity Building events having identified the types of courses that would be of most benefit to WISERD researchers and those outside of…