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A Crisis of Welsh Education? A Review of the Current Evidence
The aim of the project was to provide an analysis of the current state of education in Wales, based upon a critical review of the available evidence. This analysis provided the basis for the development of a future programme of educational research. More specifically, the
Research Team:
Gareth Rees (Cardiff University), Chris Taylor (Cardiff University)
A Living Wage in Wales
This research aimed to improve understanding of the implications of introducing a living wage policy in Wales. In March 2009, The Welsh Assembly Government (WAG) commissioned an exploratory study into the implications of introducing a Living Wage in Wales. This report
Research Team:
David Blackaby (Swansea University), Philip Murphy (Swansea University)
Academic Social Care Research Collaboration
Overview Working in partnership across Bangor, Cardiff and Swansea Universities and funded by the NISCHR, the All Wales Academic Social Care Research Collaboration (ASCC) sought to strengthen the capacity of HEIs and their partner agencies to deliver on an agreed and
Research Team:
Gareth Rees (Cardiff University), Dianne Seddon, Judith Phillips, Nick Andrews, Martin O'Neill (Cardiff University), Victoria Macfarlane, Luke Cowie (Cardiff University), Karel Williams (University of Manchester), Julie Froud, Paula Hyde, Sukhdev Johal, Catherine Robinson
Administrative Data Research Centre Wales (ADRC)
About the Centre The main aim of ADRC WALES was to create a world-class administrative data research centre, known for its ability to access, link and make safe use of data for high quality research. Our work was underpinned by a robust Governance framework. ADRC Wales
Research Team:
Rhys Davies (Cardiff University), Katy Huxley (Cardiff University), Dora Pouliou, Ian Thomas (Cardiff University), Ian Rees Jones (Cardiff University), Chris Taylor (Cardiff University), Peter Mackie (Cardiff University), Scott Orford (Cardiff University), David Blackaby (Swansea University), Foteini Tseliou (Cardiff University)
ADR Wales
Administrative Data Research UK The ESRC, as part of UKRI, are funding an important new investment in research infrastructure to maximise the potential of administrative data as a resource for high-quality research in the UK – Administrative Data Research UK (ADR UK). ADR UK
Research Team:
Rhys Davies (Cardiff University), Katy Huxley (Cardiff University), Ian Thomas (Cardiff University), Sonia De Saxe (Cardiff University)
Ageing, serious leisure and the contribution of the grey economy
Overview This project utilised a mixed methods approach, combining a strategic review of existing survey data with ethnographic observation and interviews to make a timely and original contribution to understanding the benefits of ‘serious leisure’ in retirement for the
Research Team:
Jesse Heley (Aberystwyth University), Laura Jones (Aberystwyth University), Paul Milbourne (Cardiff University), Sophie Yarker (University of Manchester)
An Anatomy of Economic Inequality in Wales
The National Equality Panel’s report An Anatomy of Economic Inequality in the UK provided a milestone in our understanding of relationships between people’s characteristics and their financial position. Through detailed analysis of complex datasets, some newly available, it
Research Team:
Rhys Davies (Cardiff University), Stephen Drinkwater (University of Roehampton), Caroline Joll, Melanie Jones (Cardiff University), Huw Lloyd-Williams, Gerald Makepeace, Mamata Parhi (Swansea University), Alison Parken, Catherine Robinson (University of Kent), Chris Taylor (Cardiff University), Victoria Wass
An Evaluation of the Women's Turnaround Project
Overview The Women’s Turnaround project aimed to engage women offenders so that they make necessary changes to stop offending, following a holistic, woman-centred, service model recommended by the Corston Report in 2007. This project explored the women’s and stakeholder’s
Research Team:
Martina Feilzer (Bangor University), Alexandra Plows (Bangor University), Katherine Williams
Analysis of the Correlates of Self Reported Work Related Illness in the Labour Force Survey
Overview Work has long been acknowledged as an important social determinant of health with research being conducted as to how a range of workplace, personal and job characteristics influence occupational health. Recent research has demonstrated the importance of the economic
Research Team:
Rhys Davies (Cardiff University), Huw Lloyd-Williams, Emma Wadsworth, Melanie Jones (Cardiff University)
Analysis of Turnout Data in Welsh Elections
WISERD analysed turnout data for the 2011 NAW elections and produced a report for the Electoral Commission.
Research Team:
Scott Orford (Cardiff University)
Behaviour Change in Wales
Behaviour change is a topic which is of key importance to policy makers both in the Welsh Government and further afield. Behaviour change also emerged as a key theme during the WISERD localities stakeholder interviews and the subsequent stakeholder feedback sessions have
Research Team:
Alexandra Plows (Bangor University), Robin Mann (Bangor University), Jesse Heley (Aberystwyth University), Laura Jones (Aberystwyth University)
Beth Nawr Survey on children’s rights in Wales: Children’s Commissioner for Wales
Research Team:
Rhian Barrance (Cardiff University)
Booktrust Pori Drwy Stori Evaluation
Overview: This was an evaluation of Pori Drwy Stori, a bilingual reading intervention designed to raise educational outcomes for young children by increasing the quality and quantity of adult-child interactions around reading in the home learning environment (HLE). This
Research Team:
Alex Morgan, Kate Moles (Cardiff University)
Borders, boundary mechanisms and migration
Borders, boundary mechanisms and migration examines factors shaping civil society engagement with migration and forms of bordering through comparative international case studies and place-based ethnographies, and explores how social boundary activation mechanisms are
Research Team:
Martina Feilzer (Bangor University), Rhys Dafydd Jones (Aberystwyth University), Bethan Loftus (Bangor University), Robin Mann (Bangor University), Dana Brablecova (Bangor University), Maria Christina Galanaki (Bangor University)
Building Trust? Institutions and interactions of multi-level governance in the UK Germany and France
Overview This project utilised a mixed-methods design incorporating interviews, focus groups, a scoping analysis of secondary quantitative data and a cross-national survey to explore the role of trust and transparency within the context of multi-level governance. The core
Research Team:
Alistair Cole (Cardiff University), Ian Stafford (Cardiff University), Dominic Heinz (Cardiff), Stuart Fox (Brunel University London)
Centre For Welsh Politics And Society
The Centre for Welsh Politics and Society / WISERD@Aberystwyth aims to use research on Welsh politics and society, comparative studies of Wales and other nations and regions, and analyses of Wales’s global connections, to make internationally-significant cutting-edge
Research Team:
Michael Woods (Aberystwyth University), Jesse Heley (Aberystwyth University), Laura Jones (Aberystwyth University), Marc Welsh (Aberystwyth University), Taulant Guma (University of Edinburgh), Anwen Elias (Aberystwyth University), Elin Royles (Aberystwyth University), Rhys Jones (Aberystwyth University), Anthonia Onyeahialam (Aberystwyth University), Rhys Dafydd Jones (Aberystwyth University), Dyfan Powel (Aberystwyth University), Sophie Yarker (University of Manchester)
Change in Alcohol Outlet Density and Alcohol-Related Harm to Population Health
Overview The research sought to directly address the NIHR commissioning brief by firstly developing a new method of measuring alcohol outlet density in Wales using Geographical Information System (GIS) methods which include a more realistic and robust measure of population
Research Team:
David Fone, Scott Orford (Cardiff University), Frank Dunstan, Chris Webster, Shin Lee, Narushige Shiode, Sarah Rodgers, Ronan Lyons
Children and young people’s rights: formal and informal constructions of citizenship
Children and young people’s rights: formal and informal constructions of citizenship utilises an international comparison of the civic expansion of children’s rights in four Western countries (including Wales), and how this can rebalance the civic deficits associated with
Research Team:
Esther Muddiman (Cardiff University), Sally Power (Cardiff University), Chris Taylor (Cardiff University), Rhian Powell (Cardiff University)
Civil Society Advocacy and the Rohingya Crisis in Bangladesh: Challenges and Resolutions
Led by Professor Paul Chaney, this international project links with Professor Nasir Uddin of the University of Chittagong, a leading international scholar on the Rohingyas. This new collaboration aligns with the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) call for new research on
Research Team:
Paul Chaney (Cardiff University)
Civil society, and place-based strategies for sustainable development
Civil society, and place-based strategies for sustainable development undertakes regional policy studies in Wales, UK and Europe and action research in specific foundational sectors. Drawing on place-based social innovation approaches, it considers to what extent regional
Research Team:
David Beel (Manchester Metropolitan University), Martin Jones (Staffordshire University), Bertie Russell (Cardiff University)
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Civil Society Research Centre Projects
See a full list of our research projects funded under this centre between October 2014 and September 2019.
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