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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)
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)
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)
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)
Connected Communities: Connectivity Place and Elective Belonging: Community and Later Life
Overview As a part of the development process for the Connected Communities programme, the AHRC supported research reviews in 2011 to address a wide range of underpinning issues. The aim of these reviews was to: stimulate debate and provide some early outputs from the
Research Team:
Ian Rees Jones (Cardiff University), Graham Day (Bangor University), Paul Higgs, Chris Gileard
Connected Communities: ICT Use and Connectivity of Minority Communities in Wales
Researchers from the Wales Institute of Social & Economic Research, Data & Methods, Swansea University, Cardiff University, and the University of Glamorgan will conduct a systematic research review in order to gain an understanding of the impact of Information and
Research Team:
Panayiota Tsatsou, Gary Higgs (University of South Wales), Ian Stafford (Cardiff University), Robert Berry, Richard Fry (Swansea University)
Digital archive of annual reports
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Research Team:
Paul Chaney (Cardiff University), Christala Sophocleous (Cardiff University), Daniel Wincott (Cardiff University)
Education, Language & Identity
Overview The project used interviews and questionnaires to investigate the types of civic participation and conceptions of language and identity promoted within the statutory education system, and within civil society organisations working with young people, in both Wales
Research Team:
Rhys Jones (Aberystwyth University), Elin Royles (Aberystwyth University), Lindsay Paterson (University of Edinburgh), Fiona O'Hanlon (University of Edinburgh), Kirstie Macleod (University of Edinburgh)
Equality, Diversity & Third Sector Welfare Provision
Overview This project builds on previous research undertaken by the team. It will utilise a mixed methods approach, combining secondary analysis of existing datasets, development of case studies, documentary analysis and a series of interviews to investigate the impact of
Research Team:
Nick Johns (Cardiff University), Stephen Drinkwater (University of Roehampton), Alison Green (The Open University)
Evaluation of Rock Summer School Project 2010
The 3Gs Development Trust is a community regeneration organisation serving deprived areas in Merthyr Tydfil. During the summer of 2010 the trust, with the support of WISERD, carried out the Evaluation of Rock project. This four week project was focused on evaluating the
Research Team:
Martin O'Neill (Cardiff University)
Experts, expertise and citizen science: a case study of air quality monitoring
Experts, expertise and citizen science: a case study of air quality monitoring draws on theories and participatory methods from science and technology studies to explore the role of citizens and experts in democratic debates relating to science and the environment. Start
Research Team:
Robert Evans (Cardiff University), Jamie Lewis (Cardiff University), Nick Hacking (Cardiff University)
Exploring effective practice in civil society organisations' promotion of human rights, good governance and social justice in India and Bangladesh
This multidisciplinary research network project is jointly hosted by WISERD and the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi. It is funded under a Global Challenge Research Fund award from the Academy of Medical Sciences. The Principal Investigators are Professor Paul
Research Team:
Paul Chaney (Cardiff University), Sarbeswar Sahoo (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi)
Foundational economy, citizenship and new forms of common ownership
Foundational economy, citizenship and new forms of common ownership explores place-based solutions and experiments with social mechanisms and new institutional forms that provide the material basis for citizenship. It looks at how Foundational Economy approaches can promote
Research Team:
Filippo Barbera, Julie Froud, Karel Williams (University of Manchester), Bernd Bonfert (Cardiff University)
Generativity Social Participation & Later Life
Overview This project undertook a programme of quantitative data analysis, using the prism of ageing, to address the effects of and responses to nascent globalization for civil society and social participation at national and local levels. This work package comprised a
Research Team:
Martin Hyde (Swansea University), Martijn Hogerbrugge (Cardiff University), Ian Rees Jones (Cardiff University)
Higher Education and Civil Society
Overview This project explored the relationships between participation in higher education and engagement in civil society, especially at the local level. Do university graduates play a distinctive role in the institutions of civil society? More specifically, it examined the
Research Team:
Gareth Rees (Cardiff University), Chris Taylor (Cardiff University), Ceryn Evans (Cardiff University), Stuart Fox (Brunel University London)
Identity and civic divides in the UK
Identity and civic divides in the UK examines the relationship between different forms of identity (disability, sexuality, religion) and political participation and wellbeing. It explores whether identity groups experience differential abilities to exercise rights, and
Research Team:
David Blackaby (Swansea University), Nigel O'Leary (Swansea University), Melanie Jones (Cardiff University)
Implications of Spatial & Temporal Variation in Service Provision for Inequalities in Social Outcomes
Overview The study carried out analysis of existing secondary sources of quantitative data in order to investigate levels of social capital within communities in relation to changing levels of provision of key public services. The study built on research conducted in Phase 1
Research Team:
Gary Higgs (University of South Wales), Mitch Langford (University of South Wales), Scott Orford (Cardiff University), Nicholas Page (Cardiff University)
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Civil Society Research Centre Projects
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