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The importance of a new report Trade Union Responses to the Changing World of Work , written by Dr Helen Blakely and Dr Steve Davies, which looks at the trade union responses to the changing world of work around the world, has been recognised by UNI...
WISERD Director Ian Rees Jones pays tribute to Julian Tudor Hart who passed away on 1st July. It is a great sadness to hear the news of the death of Julian Tudor Hart. Born in 1927, he studied medicine at Cambridge University and in London,...
Dr Peter Mackie, the Chair of WISERD’s housing research network ( https://wiserd.ac.uk/research/research-projects/wales-housing-research-network) , will today share findings from his research at an event on homelessness at Westminster. The panel...
Strikes have taken place at McDonald’s and TGI Friday’s restaurants across the UK in recent months. These strikes are the first of their kind in the UK, instigated by a new generation of trade union members fighting for better pay and fairer working...
Following last week’s WISERD blog about the 2017 McDonald’s strike, Wil Chivers and Helen Blakely report from the picket lines in London at the UK’s second McStrike. Until now our research on the McStrike has been at a distance. We’ve followed the...
WISERD's Prof Melanie Jones blogs for The Conversation with Prof Victoria Wass, Cardiff University
A blog co-written by WISERD's Dr Sioned Pearce for the National Assembly for Wales Research Service
PhD student Philippa Davies blogs on her placement with a women's sport charity
To mark International Women’s Day, we want to create a space for the voices of young, ethnic minority women in the current Brexit process. With EU-UK exit negotiations well underway, this study is an extension of both WISERD’s ‘ Young People and...
Our latest annual report details what we've achieved as an institute throughout 2017