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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)
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)
ERDF Business Survey
Overview In partnership with Old Bell 3 Ltd and IFF Research, WISERD undertook a survey of ERDF assisted businesses under the Convergence and Competitiveness Programmes for WEFO. The survey findings supplement existing Programme monitoring data to assess the effectiveness of
Research Team:
Rhys Davies (Cardiff University), Mark Winterbotham, Max Munday
Factors Associated with the Effective Involvement of Workers in Health and Safety Management
Overview The involvement of workers and their representatives in consultation on arrangements for managing risks to health and safety at work is a key element of the requirements of the EU Framework Directive 89/391. While there are differences in provisions between member
Research Team:
Rhys Davies (Cardiff University), Emma Wadsworth, David Walters
In Work Poverty in the East Midlands
Overview The key aim of this project, funded by emda (the East Midlands Development Agency), was to provide a detailed assessment of the issue of in-work poverty in the East Midlands and its implications for regional economic performance. The project provided: a systematic
Research Team:
Rhys Davies (Cardiff University)
Integrative Mechanisms for Addressing Spatial Justice and Territorial Inequalities in Europe (IMAJINE)
The IMAJINE project (Integrative Mechanisms for Addressing Spatial Justice and Territorial Inequalities in Europe) is one of the largest social sciences projects to be financed as part of the EU’s Horizon 2020 programme.The five-year project aims to come up with new policy
Research Team:
Michael Woods (Aberystwyth University), Rhys Jones (Aberystwyth University), Elin Royles (Aberystwyth University), Rhys Dafydd Jones (Aberystwyth University)
Knowing Localities: Responses to Redundancy at AA
Overview This project was concerned with the impact on workers, their families and neighbourhoods of the closure of the Anglesey Aluminium (AA) smelter in September 2009, formerly one of the major employers in the Holyhead area. Previous studies of the impact of factory
Research Team:
Alexandra Plows (Bangor University), Howard Davis (Bangor University), Rhys Davies (Cardiff University)
Labour Market Implications of Changes in the Public Sector
In 2010 the UK coalition Government committed itself to an active policy of fiscal consolidation designed to ‘eliminate’ the structural deficit by the end of the current parliament (HM Budget, March 2011). As part of their consolidation plans the Government announced its
Research Team:
Philip Murphy (Swansea University), David Blackaby (Swansea University), Melanie Jones (Cardiff University), Victoria Wass, Gerald Makepeace, Alan Felstead (Cardiff University)
Labour Market Implications of Changes in the Public Sector: Inequality
The UK gender Pay gap 1998-2013: What is the role of the public sector? The Quarterly Labour Force Survey was used to compare gender wage gap in the public and private sectors between 1998 and 2013 and to identify the contribution of the sectoral employment allocation to the
Research Team:
Philip Murphy (Swansea University), David Blackaby (Swansea University), Melanie Jones (Cardiff University), Victoria Wass, Gerald Makepeace, Alan Felstead (Cardiff University)
Labour Market Implications of Changes in the Public Sector: Public Sector Pay
Pay determination and outcomes in the public sector Data from the Labour Force Survey was used to investigate public sector wage differential in the UK 1994 to 2012. In the first of a set of analyses, three separate sub-periods are considered in detail, each characterise
Research Team:
Philip Murphy (Swansea University), David Blackaby (Swansea University), Melanie Jones (Cardiff University), Victoria Wass, Gerald Makepeace, Alan Felstead (Cardiff University)
Labour Market Implications of Changes in the Public Sector: Work Quality
Pay and Job Quality: Is the Grass Greener in the Public Sector? The unadjusted public-private sector pay differential has attracted considerable political interest since the coalition government came to power in the UK in 2010. It has been used to justify changes to pay
Research Team:
Philip Murphy (Swansea University), David Blackaby (Swansea University), Melanie Jones (Cardiff University), Victoria Wass, Gerald Makepeace, Alan Felstead (Cardiff University)
Skills and Employment Survey
Overview WISERD funded a boost to the Skills and Employment Survey to be carried out across Britain in 2012. The overarching aim of the survey was to collect data on skills and employment experiences of those working in Britain in 2012, making it a key and distinctive
Research Team:
Alan Felstead (Cardiff University), Rhys Davies (Cardiff University)
The Gender Pay Gap in Wales
Aims The aims of the project were to examine the pay statistics for Wales, for 2008 and other relevant years to determine possible reasons for the widening of the pay gap between women and men. Methodology The research methodology was desk based analysis of published data
Research Team:
David Blackaby (Swansea University), Philip Murphy (Swansea University), Nigel O'Leary (Swansea University), Sami Souabni
Understanding the Gender Pay Gap within the UK Public Sector
WISERD researchers, Melanie Jones and Esgi Kaya have evaluated the size of the gender pay gap within UK public sector occupations such as teaching and nursing after they successfully secured a research grant from the Office of Manpower Economics (OME). h5{line-height:1.3;}
Research Team:
Melanie Jones (Cardiff University), Ezgi Kaya (Cardiff University)
Wales Housing Research Network
The Welsh Housing Research Network brings together researchers and research organisations in Wales in the field of housing. Researchers are exploring housing issues via a multitude of disciplines ranging from the social sciences and economics to architecture and health
Research Team:
Peter Mackie (Cardiff University), Philip Murphy (Swansea University), Scott Orford (Cardiff University), Paul Milbourne (Cardiff University)
Young People and Housing: Identifying Policy Challenges and Solutions for 2020
Funding: £119,000 The project was centred on young people and housing and had the following aims; to determine the profile of the housing system in 2020 to ascertain young people’s housing aspirations and how they fit with the current housing system and the system likely to
Research Team:
Scott Orford (Cardiff University), Peter Mackie (Cardiff University), Ian Thomas (Cardiff University), David Clapham, Kelly Buckley
Civil Society Research Centre Projects
See a full list of our research projects funded under this centre between October 2014 and September 2019.
WISERD is a collaboration between five universities in Wales and has been designated by the Welsh Government as a National Research Centre
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