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What would a Cultural Participation Research Network look like, and why should we have one?

What would a Cultural Participation Research Network look like, and why should we have one?

Posted on 17 July 2017 by WISERD

Cultural Participation Research Network meeting, 22nd June 2017 Dr Eva Elliott and Dr Ellie Byrne introduce The Cultural Participation Research Network, which was established in June 2017 with help from […]

‘It’s bringing new life in’ Teenage parents and inter-generational values of family life

‘It’s bringing new life in’ Teenage parents and inter-generational values of family life

Posted on 30 June 2017 by WISERD

Image credit: iStock WISERD was joined by Dr Sally Brown from Edinburgh Napier University for the latest Civil Society Seminar, which looked at teenage pregnancy and intergenerational relations. Read her […]

The IDEAL study: finding strategies to live well with dementia

The IDEAL study: finding strategies to live well with dementia

Posted on 25 January 2017 by WISERD

Finding strategies to live well with dementia is increasingly a focus of UK government policy.  But, we know relatively about what living well with dementia means to the people and […]

Just how much of a problem is cyberbullying in Wales?

Just how much of a problem is cyberbullying in Wales?

Posted on 13 January 2017 by WISERD

Young peoples’ social media usage on the rise Amongst young people social media has been consistently growing in popularity over the past ten years. EU Kids Online’s research on young […]

Making the Best of a Bad Job? Measuring Job Satisfaction in Wales

Making the Best of a Bad Job? Measuring Job Satisfaction in Wales

Posted on 7 July 2016 by WISERD

Since the introduction of its well-being programme in 2010, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has introduced a number of questions into its surveys in an attempt to measure the […]

Public Engagement: a liberating experience

Public Engagement: a liberating experience

Posted on 1 June 2016 by WISERD

Public engagement used to be something I shied away from but in the past month I have taken part in two public engagement events to present the work of the […]

A radical agenda for social innovation

A radical agenda for social innovation

Posted on 24 May 2016 by WISERD

Professor Ian Rees Jones speaking at the WISERD CRESC Radical Social Innovation Colloquium. WISERD/CRESC Civil Society Colloquium 18th and 19th May 2016, Cardiff As part of the WISERD Civil Society […]

Absent Friends and Absent Enemies: reflections on the Radical Social Innovation Colloquium

Absent Friends and Absent Enemies: reflections on the Radical Social Innovation Colloquium

Posted on 24 May 2016 by WISERD

Professor Mick Moran speaking at the WISERD CRESC Radical Social Innovation Colloquium* Let me introduce you to Moran’s Law of Academic Conferences: the more a conference draws on a single […]

Where does the money go when your local authority pays more than £500 per week for a care home bed?

Where does the money go when your local authority pays more than £500 per week for a care home bed?

Posted on 8 March 2016 by WISERD

Joe Earle, Research Fellow, Queen Mary and Westfield, London.  Everyone’s agreed that there is a crisis in adult social care and the sector needs more money but no one has […]

What’s in a name? How family carers understand dementia

What’s in a name? How family carers understand dementia

Posted on 24 February 2016 by WISERD

The ‘Prime Minister’s challenge on dementia 2020’ focuses on the need to improve the public’s awareness of dementia; one common misconception about dementia is that it is a normal part […]