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Using administrative data to create impact: Engaging with the Senedd

Using administrative data to create impact: Engaging with the Senedd

Posted on 14 July 2025 by Katy Huxley

Katy Huxley is a Research Fellow for the ADR Wales Skills and Employability research theme and at SPARK based out of Cardiff University. Here, Katy describes the process of giving […]

Three is the magic number: A Cross-Centre Seminar on Global Migration and Exploitation

Three is the magic number: A Cross-Centre Seminar on Global Migration and Exploitation

Posted on 27 June 2025 by Blogs Admin

On March 21, three Cardiff University research entities - the Migration, Ethnicity, Race and Diversity (MEAD) Research Group, the Modern Slavery and Social Sustainability Research Group (MSSS RG) and the […]

Modern Slavery, Creative Industries and the Cardiff Capital Region: A New Collaboration

Modern Slavery, Creative Industries and the Cardiff Capital Region: A New Collaboration

Posted on 20 March 2025 by Blogs Admin

The Modern Slavery and Social Sustainability Research Group (MSSS RG) was established and is co-hosted by Cardiff University’s Business School and the Social Science Research Park (SPARK). One of our […]

SPARKing Change: Being more open?

SPARKing Change: Being more open?

Posted on 24 February 2025 by Blogs Admin

Open research, open science, open access, whatever the terminology, there is a push within the UK HE sector to be more ‘open’. The open research agenda aims to: Shift research […]

Developing a cross-sector Community of Practice: A blueprint for sharing knowledge, skills and connections

Developing a cross-sector Community of Practice: A blueprint for sharing knowledge, skills and connections

Posted on 16 December 2024 by hayleytrowbridge

In recent years, cross-sector collaboration has gained increasing prominence within the research world. Within this context, SPARK has been exploring how Communities of Practice (CoPs) can serve as effective structures […]

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 […]

sbarc|spark ‘will support innovation and job security’

sbarc|spark ‘will support innovation and job security’

Posted on 29 March 2022 by christaylor

sbarc|spark has a key role to play in colocating researchers under one roof to generate new ideas and fresh avenues of research, says Professor Chris Taylor, Director of SPARK – […]