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In the first week of November 2015 CISHeW’s Strong Communities, Healthier People (SCHeP) project hosted the first Student Selected Component of the new Curriculum 21 for Cardiff University medical students.  The aim of this component was to give second year medical students the opportunity to engage with local communities to get some real hands on understanding of…

The Welsh Government has published the latest evaluation of its Pupil Deprivation Grant – a programme which sees additional funding being allocated to schools for looked after children and those pupils eligible for free school meals. The report produced by Ipsos MORI and WISERD colleagues shows that: Teachers believe the Pupil Deprivation Grant (PDG) is making…

    Prof Ian Rees Jones, Prof John Morgan and Prof Paul Chaney of WISERD discuss future potential collaboration with Professor Jian Song and colleagues from Renmin University, the leading centre for Population Studies and Demography in China.  

The WISERD Stand was busy at the Wales Council for Voluntary Action Annual Conference 2015. Held in Llandudno, it is the leading third sector conference in Wales. This year’s event was valuable in developing existing strong links between third sector organisations and colleagues working on the Institute’s ESRC- funded Civil Society Programme. Welsh Government minister…

  Wednesday 25th November saw the launch of ‘Making the Case for the Social Sciences: Wales’ at the Pierhead Building in Cardiff. “Making the Case for the Social Sciences: Wales” is the tenth in a series of publicationsproduced by the Academy of Social Sciences and its Campaign for Social Science in order to celebrate the real and important…

    Research undertaken by social science researchers in Wales was celebrated this week at the launch of a new publication – ‘Making the Case for the Social Sciences 10: Wales’ -published by the Academy of Social Sciences and its Campaign for Social Science. The publication comprises 14 case studies of research carried out by…

Professor Chris Taylor, Co-Director of WISERD and WISERD Education, has been appointed to the HEFCW Student Opportunity and Achievement Committee. This is a new committee that will act as an advisory committee to HEFCW Council. The remit of the Committee is to advise on student opportunity and achievement in higher education, including Welsh medium, initial…

Dr Dan Evans wrote an article for The Conversation on Welsh language and young people, which can be accessed via the link below. https://theconversation.com/teenage-apathy-for-speaking-welsh-reveals-struggle-to-keep-it-as-a-living-language-48422

UN Year of Evaluation – Welsh Government Event Series – 17th November 2015 Dr Dan Evans attends the WISERD stand as the Welsh Government picks up the “evaluation torch” with a series of daily policy and research events at the Crown Buildings in Cardiff to mark the UN Year of Evaluation in 2015 (www.unevaluation.org ). WISERD…

On the 4th November, Home Secretary Theresa May unveiled the government’s proposals for updating the UK’s legislative framework for communications surveillance. The arrival in parliament of the Investigatory Powers Bill has been long-awaited and its possible contents have been the source of increasing speculation. We’ve now had our first look at the draft Bill (that’s #IPBill for the…