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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...
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...
Resisting Digital Surveillance Reform: The Arguments and Tactics of Communications Service Providers
Communications surveillance in the UK has been an increasingly contentious issue since the early 2000s. The Investigatory Powers Act 2016 is the result of a long series of attempts by the UK government to reform communications surveillance legislation. The consultations on...
New Perspectives on Welfare and Governance in Contemporary China
Introduction Over the last thirty years, China has undergone comprehensive and profound social and economic transformation. The rapid development of urbanization, marketization, informatization and globalization has brought China a series of major challenges. These include...
Geographical Variations in Trade Union Membership
This Research Note presents new estimates of trade union membership derived for detailed geographical areas across Great Britain. Analysis reveals the wide variations in union density that exist both across the country and within particular regions. Over the period 2000-2017...
India at the Crossroads? Civil Society, Human Rights and Religious Freedom: Critical Analysis of CSOs’ Third Cycle Universal Periodic Review Discourse 2012-2017
In order to provide a timely assessment of India’s fulfilment of international obligations on religious freedom this article explores the nature and ‘issue-salience’ of different human rights ‘pathologies’. It uses critical frame analysis of the corpus of civil society...
Exploring spatiotemporal variations in public library provision following a prolonged period of economic austerity: A GIS approach
This paper demonstrates the applicability of GIS tools for investigating the implications of changes in public service provision following a prolonged period of economic austerity in the UK. Using the example of geographical accessibility to public library service points in...
Understanding the Gender Pay Gap within the UK Public Sector
Acknowledgements: We gratefully acknowledge funding from the OME who supported this project under their 2018 Open Call for Research on Public Sector Pay and Workforces. The OME is an independent organisation that provides impartial secretariat support to the independent Pay...
Investigating spatial variations in access to childcare provision using network‐based Geographic Information System models
Abstract A “flagship” policy outlined in the current Welsh Government's 2016 Programme for Government aims to provide 30 hours of free early education and childcare per week to the working parents of three‐ and four‐year‐olds. However, in common with many other countries...