{"id":231,"date":"2025-08-21T10:53:05","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T10:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/spark\/?p=231"},"modified":"2025-08-21T10:53:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T10:53:20","slug":"the-role-of-social-sciences-in-creating-a-wiser-society-part-3-towards-a-wiser-society-a-roadmap-for-spark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/spark\/the-role-of-social-sciences-in-creating-a-wiser-society-part-3-towards-a-wiser-society-a-roadmap-for-spark\/","title":{"rendered":"The Role of Social Sciences in Creating a Wiser Society \u2013 Part 3: Towards a Wiser Society: A Roadmap for SPARK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>How do you build a place \u2013 and a culture \u2013 where wisdom can grow?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The final blog in the series brings the discussion home to SPARK, Cardiff University\u2019s Social Science Research Park. More than just a building, SPARK is a bold experiment in research culture: a \u201cliving lab\u201d for new ways of knowing, collaborating, and creating change. Professor Chris Taylor introduces the SPARK Roadmap, a guiding framework that outlines how this one-of-a-kind institution is working to turn the concept of a wiser society into practical, everyday reality. With strategies for co-production, systems learning, creative experimentation, and deep civic engagement, SPARK is testing what it means for research to be not only excellent, but meaningful. If the first two blogs sparked your curiosity, this final piece shows what it looks like to put wisdom into action \u2013 step by experimental step.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pulse\/role-social-sciences-creating-wiser-society-dcehe\">Read the full piece on our LinkedIn page here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How do you build a place \u2013 and a culture \u2013 where wisdom can grow? The final blog in the series brings the discussion home to SPARK, Cardiff University\u2019s Social [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":6833,"featured_media":213,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sbarc-spark","category-spark"],"lang":"en","translations":{"en":231,"cy":234},"meta_box":[],"pll_sync_post":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/spark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/spark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/spark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/spark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6833"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/spark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/spark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":232,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/spark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions\/232"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/spark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/spark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/spark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/spark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}