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Journal and Journal Article

The rationale for subsidiarity as a principle applied within curriculum reform and its unintended consequences

Following trends across the developed world to devolve power and responsibility for public services to more local agencies, curriculum reforms in several countries have been characterised by policies designed to increase teacher agency and professionalism as a means of...

Reports and Briefings

The Rise and Fall of Think Tanks in Wales

Foreword This insightful and informative report makes an important contribution to our understanding of think tanks in Wales. It might be argued that we are living at a time when there has never been more interest in politics – in how decisions made in Brussels, Westminster...

February 2020

Reports and Briefings

Welsh-Breton Town Twinning: Opportunities and challenges for the future

Many Welsh town are twinned with towns in Brittany. Twinning is part of civil society, providing opportunities for international friendship and cultural exchange. Welsh-Breton connections especially celebrate shared Celtic heritage. But, with challenges from budget holidays...

Civil Society, Localities | February 2020

Reports and Briefings

Gefeilldrefi Cymreig-Llydaweg Cyfleoedd a heriau ar gyfer y dyfodol

Mae gan sawl tref Gymreig gefeilldref yn Llydaw. Mae trefeillio yn rhan o gymdeithas sifil, gan greu cyfleoedd am gyfeillgarwch rhyngwladol a chyfnewid diwylliannol. Dathla cysylltiadau Cymreig-Llydewig, yn benodol, treftadaeth Geltaidd gyffredin. Ond gyda heriau medig...

Civil Society, Localities | February 2020

Civil Society Centre (Oct 2014 and Sep 2019) Key Findings

As part of our event, Celebrating Civil Society Research – A New Chapter, which took place on Tuesday 11th February 2020, we produced an exhibition of some of the key findings from our ESRC-funded Civil Society Centre research, carried out between October 2014 and September...

Civil Society | Researching Civic Participation in Wales in place and over time, Redefining Local Civil Society in an Age of Global Inter-connectivity, Migrants, Minorities and Engagement in Local Civil Society, Higher Education and Civil Society, Territoriality and Third Sector Engagement in Policy-Making and Welfare Provision, Education, Language & Identity, Implications of Spatial & Temporal Variation in Service Provision for Inequalities in Social Outcomes, Trade Union Membership, Associational Life and Wellbeing, Wellbeing, Deprivation & Social Cohesion, Generativity Social Participation & Later Life, The intergenerational transmission of ‘civic virtues’: the role of the family in civil society engagement, Ageing, serious leisure and the contribution of the grey economy | February 2020

Civil Society Centre booklet cover - Civic Stratification and Civil Repair

WISERD Civil Society – Changing Perspectives on Civic Stratification and Civil Repair

Read more about all the work packages in this booklet. You can download here or contact the WISERD Communications Officer for hard copies, email: WISERD.Comms@cardiff.ac.uk.

Civil Society | Borders, boundary mechanisms and migration, New arenas for civic expansion: Humans, animals and AI, Children and young people’s rights: Formal and informal constructions of citizenship, Identity and civic divides in the UK, Inequalities, civic loss and well-being, Populism, conflict and political polarization, Patronage, elites and power relations, Trust, human rights and civil society within mixed economies of welfare, Shifting forms of governance and the grassroots politics of separatism, New repertoires of contention and social mobilisation: Shifting dynamics of civic stratification and the marketization of social justice in the energy transition, Experts, expertise and citizen science: a case study of air quality monitoring, Trade Unions, grass roots activism and solidarity, Foundational economy, citizenship and new forms of common ownership, Civil Society and place based strategies for sustainable development, Machines, platforms and capabilities | February 2020

Books and Book Chapters

Filosofia, Diálogo e Educacao: nove filósofos europeus modernos

Civil Society | January 2020

Journal and Journal Article

The World Bank and the financing of education – A thirty-year retrospective

Education | January 2020

Growing up in Wales postcards - three designs

Growing up in Wales: school students' perspectives and experiences

We’ve gathered young people’s views on their teachers, school trips, why they’ve been asked to leave the classroom and why they’ve been given a detention. We also asked about the GCSE subjects they’ve chosen and their awareness of vocational education. We’ve also asked them...

Education | WISERDEducation Multi Cohort Study | November 2019

Journal and Journal Article

Sexual Orientation, Legal Partnerships and Wages in Britain

This article uses data from the Labour Force Survey to examine the effect sexual orientation has on wages in Britain. In doing so it provides the first empirical investigation of the effect being in a same-sex legal partnership has on wages. The results show that gay...

Work and Labour Markets | October 2019