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Breaking Down Silos: Creating the foundations for localised knowledge and expertise mobilisation between communities and research institutions

Breaking Down Silos: Creating the foundations for localised knowledge and expertise mobilisation between communities and research institutions

Posted on 18 November 2024 by Blogs Admin

“It feels very individualistic—lots of separate work going on, not so much collaboration within the sectors let alone across the sectors.” – Cathays Future Lab Attendee. This observation cuts to the […]

SPARK Third Sector Research Partnership

SPARK Third Sector Research Partnership

Posted on 17 October 2024 by Blogs Admin

Dr Anna Skeels from SPARK and Dave Horton (Consultant and ACE) provide the latest update on the Third Sector Research Partnership, a year later. The SPARK Third Sector Research Partnership […]

Time to re-design governance

Time to re-design governance

Posted on 6 October 2024 by Blogs Admin

By Anna Nicholl The challenge: decision-making in a different era Everywhere we turn, it feels like we’re in trouble. Our institutions are either mired in scandal, unable to tackle the […]

Igniting ideas: Creating a social science park to tackle major societal challenges

Igniting ideas: Creating a social science park to tackle major societal challenges

Posted on 23 May 2022 by Blogs Admin

Our society is facing many complex challenges, such as the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the climate change emergency. In our world of global connections and complications, we cannot expect such […]

SPARKing Health and Care Research in Wales

SPARKing Health and Care Research in Wales

Posted on 26 April 2022 by Blogs Admin

A cohort of talented academics from Cardiff University’s Social Science Research Park (SPARK) are among a list of Senior Research Leaders announced by Health and Care Research Wales. Three senior leaders from our […]

Companies pay the price for remaining in Russia

Companies pay the price for remaining in Russia

Posted on 5 April 2022 by Blogs Admin

In the early hours of Thursday, 24 February 2022, Russia began its invasion of Ukraine. Against this backdrop, many international businesses operating in the Russian market chose to cut ties […]

sbarc|spark opens new doors

sbarc|spark opens new doors

Posted on 24 March 2022 by Blogs Admin

A new flagship centre where ideas ignite invention has opened its doors. sbarc|spark – Cardiff’s #HomeofInnovation – brings together researchers, entrepreneurs, student start-ups and academic spinouts in a state-of-the-art building at the […]

SPARKing Wales’ future innovation strategy

SPARKing Wales’ future innovation strategy

Posted on 21 March 2022 by Blogs Admin

The Learned Society of Wales (LSW) is convening a programme of activities to help inform and improve innovation policies and practices in Wales. The role of science parks in innovation strategies is […]