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When Jeremy Corbyn formally entered the Labour leadership contest in June, nobody expected him to even be competitive – let alone secure almost 60% of the vote in the first round. That Corbyn won so convincingly, and after eliciting the greatest surge in people joining or registering to support the Labour party for decades, is…

BBC Online – http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-34201905 ITV News – http://www.itv.com/news/wales/2015-09-15/fifth-of-teenagers-wake-up-to-use-social-media-during-the-night/ The Telegraph – http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/news/11865757/One-in-five-teens-wake-up-at-night-to-use-social-media.html The Guardian – https://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/sep/15/fifth-of-secondary-school-pupils-wake-almost-every-night-to-use-social-media Wales Online – https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/education/social-media-keeping-your-kids-10055550?service=responsive Daily Mail – http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3234568/Teens-wake-night-tweet-One-five-uses-social-networks-early-hours-leading-lower-being.html Daily Mirror – https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/shocking-study-finds-1-5-6442164#ICID=sharebar_twitter Yahoo! News – https://uk.yahoo.com/?err=404&err_url=https%3a%2f%2fuk.news.yahoo.com%2fschoolchildren-tired-class-waking-look-social-media-125527778.html Belfast telegraph – https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/schoolchildren-tired-in-class-after-waking-up-to-look-at-social-media-31527638.html Irish News – http://www.irishnews.com/news/educationnews/2015/09/15/news/facebook-making-children-tired-in-class–262572/ BT.com – http://home.bt.com/tech-gadgets/tech-news/schoolchildren-tired-in-class-after-waking-up-to-look-at-social-media-11364003878206 The Daily Star – http://www.thedailystar.net/shout/social-media/waking-social-media-leaves-pupils-always-tired-143491 Health canal – https://www.healthcanal.com/disorders-conditions/sleep/66946-want-to-get-a-good-nights-sleep-kids.html  

The impact of social media on young people’s lives is underlined starkly today as a new study by researchers at the Cardiff University-based Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research Data (WISERD) reports that more than one in five teenagers say they “almost always” wake up during the night to look at or post messages….

This week WISERD Co-Director Professor Paul Chaney was the invited plenary speaker at the 2015 Voluntary Sector and Volunteering Research Conference, which took place at the University of Leeds from 8th – 9th September. The event is the UK’s leading interdisciplinary research conference for academics, policy makers and practitioners with a shared interest in researching…

A recent review of the national curriculum for Wales has called for a radical reimagining of how curriculum is to be conceptualised, enacted and assessed (Welsh Government, 2015). Currently, citizenship education in Wales is philosophically framed by the Curriculum Cymreig, an initiative to develop a “Welsh ethos” in schools in Wales and delivered through the Personal…

The Alliance for Useful Evidence is an open-access network of more than 2,000 individuals from across government, universities, charities, business and local authorities in the UK and internationally. It was established by Nesta, ESRC and Big Lottery Fund to champion the use of evidence in social policy and practice. We’re grateful to be hosted by WISERD in Wales. Calls for more evidence-based policy…

We are delighted to announce that WISERD has been awarded two modest amounts of funding under the Cardiff Incoming Visiting Fellowship Scheme and International Collaboration Seedcorn Fund. The first award goes to Professor Ian Rees Jones, Dr Sin Yi Cheung and Rhys Davies to build links with Professor Mike Hout at NYU and Professor David Grusky…