WISERD Civil Society: Social Media Research Series – How do trade unions use Twitter?

Posted on 23 March 2017 by WISERD

As part of the WISERD Cardiff lunchtime seminar series, Dr Wil Chivers recently reported early findings from his research into trade unions on Twitter. Back in September I introduced the Social Media Research Series of blogs here at WISERD. Following a period of data collection for WISERD Civil Society work package 3.3 at the beginning
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Making the Case for the Social Sciences in Wales Launch Event – In Pictures

Posted on 26 November 2015 by Natalie Richards

Wednesday 25th November saw the launch of ‘Making the Case for the Social Sciences: Wales’ at the Pierhead Building in Cardiff. “Making the Case for the Social Sciences: Wales” is the tenth in a series of publications produced by the Academy of Social Sciences and its Campaign for Social Science in order to celebrate the
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‘People, Places and Policy: Knowing Contemporary Wales Through New Localities’ – A New WISERD Book Published

Posted on 5 October 2015 by Natalie Richards

Our book has finally been published! We say finally, because the idea for the book started to take shape five years ago during the first phase of WISERD. During this phase we were interested in understanding how different localities in Wales were behaving in relation to devolution and devolved policy areas and we developed a
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Social science is facing a rapidly changing world…

Posted on 8 April 2014 by Jill Wilmott-Doran

By Professor Ian Rees Jones, WISERD Director. This is my first blog as Director of WISERD and I’m fortunate to have joined just at a time when we are celebrating a number of research successes across a wide range of WISERD activities. Not least among these is our success in securing funding in excess of
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WISERD Civil Society: Social Media Research Series – How do trade unions use Twitter?

Making the Case for the Social Sciences in Wales Launch Event – In Pictures

‘People, Places and Policy: Knowing Contemporary Wales Through New Localities’ – A New WISERD Book Published

Social science is facing a rapidly changing world…