Publications

Civil Society Book Series Forthcoming 2022 Is transparency a necessary condition to build and restore citizen and civil society trust in governance and democracy? Throughout Europe there is a growing demand for effective forms of citizen engagement and decentralisation in policy making to increase trust and engage increasingly diverse populations. This volume addresses the relationship…

Read our annual report, WISERD Insight, featuring our key areas of activity, income profile, funding and engagement activities in 2021.

The drivers of costs of care for people with dementia are not well understood and little is known on the costs of care for those with rarer dementias. Objective:To characterize use and costs of paid and unpaid care over time in a cohort of people with dementia living in Britain. To explore the relationship between…

Sources Family information W. John Morgan, ‘Ben Bowen Thomas, Wales, and UNESCO‘, Lecture to the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 20th April 2021. An extended version is forthcoming in The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion National Library of Wales Archives: Sir Ben Bowen Thomas Papers, 1926-1977, accessed 6 November 2020 UNESCO Archives, Paris, accessed 8 November…

Highlights •Living in an area where one’s group is in the minority is associated with poorer mental health. •Most commonly shown for ethnic groups, but evidence this also applies to social class. •We examined whether this was driven by economic or cultural aspects of class. •Group density association with mental health found for cultural but…

In the north-western corner of Tasmania lies the 22,000 hectare Woolnorth property, the largest dairy farm in the southern hemisphere. In 2016, Woolnorth was acquired by Moon Lake Investments, a company owned by a Chinese window-blind manufacturer with no prior experience of farming, for AUS$220m (US$170m). The sale was controversial, provoking outrage in the Australian…

Suggestions of the existence of so-called ‘social care deserts’ in England in the years leading up to the COVID-19 pandemic drew attention to the potential impact of geographical inequalities on the availability of residential, nursing and domiciliary care. To date, much of this analysis has been conducted at spatially aggregated scales such as that of…

This is the protocol for a Campbell review. The objectives are as follows: To carry out a mixed methods review to summarise current evidence relating to the components of case-management interventions for people experiencing homelessness.

This study analyses civil society organisations’ (cso s’) discourse on children’s rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (opt). This is a troubled context, for Israel – the ‘State Party’ to the United Nation’s Convention on the Rights of the Child (crc), disputes that its obligations extend to the opt. In consequence, there has been a dearth of…