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This blog was originally featured on the British Election Study website. Academic analysis and media commentary have shifted the emphasis in explaining United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) support away from Tory voter defectors towards working class voters, and potential Labour supporters. This was a good corrective to earlier emphases. But has the new focus on…

Preliminary results from the Evaluating the Foundation Phase second report for Welsh Government received significant online coverage from local media. ITV – http://www.itv.com/news/wales/2015-01-20/first-ministers-questions/ Wales Online – https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/foundation-phase-hoped-break-link-8409110 BBC News – http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-30718293

First Minister Carwyn Jones comments on the Evaluating the Foundation Phase second report for Welsh Government – following questions from Welsh Lib Dem Leader Kirsty Williams. A copy of the coverage can be accessed below. https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/pressures-wales-ae-easing-first-8482982

One of the UK’s leading social policy experts, Professor John Hills, headlines an impressive panel for a book launch organised by the Bevan Foundation and the Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research, Data and Methods (WISERD). Professor Hills, Director of the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion at the London School of Economics, will…

The “GIS for Public Health” 1 day workshop introduces a Geographic Information System (GIS) as a tool for use in public health research. This workshop is aimed at public health practitioners who have little or no experience in using GIS and would like to develop the skills to link spatially referenced data to health data….

A WISERD affiliated book entitled ‘Page and Place: On-going Compositions of Plot’, authored by Jon Anderson (Cardiff School of Planning and Geography, Cardiff University) has been published by Rodopi. The book explores how literature can help us understand the nature of the relations between people and place, how humans create connections between their identities and…

WISERD is seeking an experienced researcher to work on a project within the WISERD Civil Society research centre. The project will explore the relationships between participation in higher education and engagement in civil society, especially at the local level; and will consider questions such as: do university graduates play a distinctive role in the institutions…

The eighth lecture in the annual Julian Hart lecture series will take place on between 4.30pm and 8pm on Thursday 27th November. Professor Graham Watt, University of Glasgow, will deliver the lecture, which has the title ‘Include Me Out. Exclude You In: Imagining the future of primary care’. After graduating from the University of Aberdeen…

WISERD is pleased to announce a series of funded PhD studentship opportunities, based at Cardiff University. Studentships will commence in October 2015 and will be linked to a number of key projects including: the IDEAL project, WISERD Civil Society, CISHEW and the Administrative Data Research Centre Wales (ADRC-W). The studentship opportunities are as follows: Living…

We are pleased to announce that the call for papers for the WISERD 2015 Annual Conference is now open. The sixth annual WISERD Conference will take place from 30th June to 2nd July 2015 at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff. We are delighted to be able to confirm that Karl Wilding, Director of Public Policy at…