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Rediscovering passion: how my placement at WISERD has helped my future

Rediscovering passion: how my placement at WISERD has helped my future

Posted on 31 October 2017 by WISERD

Josie Phillips Josie Phillips has recently graduated from her third year of a sociology degree at Cardiff University. This summer, Josie undertook a research placement at the Wales Institute of […]

Developing ‘inheritance’ mapping

Developing ‘inheritance’ mapping

Posted on 31 October 2017 by WISERD

Louise Taylor, CUROP & CUESIP Poster Exhibition Event, City Hall, Cardiff Louise Taylor is in the second year of her sociology degree at Cardiff University. This summer she took part […]

‘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 […]

Civic engagement in Russia

Posted on 24 May 2017 by WISERD

Professor Grigori Kliucharev Professor Grigori Kliucharev recently presented as part of the WISERD Civil Society seminar series. His presentation, ‘Social and political participation in building democracy in Russia: The role […]

Patterns of participation

Patterns of participation

Posted on 28 April 2017 by WISERD

Credit: Pixabay, Creative Commons CC0 WISERD PhD student, Sian Evans, recently presented her PhD research as part of the WISERD Cardiff lunchtime seminar series. She explores whether the Omnivore Thesis […]

Devolution – no strings attached?

Devolution – no strings attached?

Posted on 19 December 2016 by WISERD

The Sheffield City Region (SCR) faces considerable problems in terms of economic and social inequality. As the Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS) emphasises, there has been a marked decline in […]

Need for Non-Market Institutions for Inter Country Transfers: Referendum Lesson

Need for Non-Market Institutions for Inter Country Transfers: Referendum Lesson

Posted on 6 July 2016 by WISERD

The European Union receives a bad press, especially in the UK, for its alleged inability to deal with crises. The British press is world class in its ability to misinform, […]

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 […]