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I sit down with a heavy heart and with great sadness to write of the death of my friend Gareth Williams. I first encountered Gareth when I was cutting my teeth in medical sociology; now a distant memory and long before he was aware of me. Each year a...
Constitutionally a secular state, India is a diverse country with marked religious divides. Recent years have seen growing international and domestic concerns over multiple forms of discrimination affecting persons belonging to religious and...
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...
The gender pay gap has narrowed since it was first measured in the UK in the early 1970s, however since 2010 this trend has stalled and the gap currently remains at about 25%. With the recent implementation of new legislation requiring UK companies...
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