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

Posted on 26 November 2015 by Home of Innovation Blog

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 […]

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

Posted on 5 October 2015 by Home of Innovation Blog

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 […]

Stress, Environment and the Human Body

Posted on 21 July 2015 by Home of Innovation Blog

What effects do different environments have upon stress levels in the human body? What affect does it have upon our well-being and health? In order to test this in June […]

WISERD Toasts Another Successful Annual Conference

Posted on 8 July 2015 by Home of Innovation Blog

Last week the 6th Annual Wales Institute of Social & Economic Research, Data & Methods (WISERD) Conference took place at Cardiff’s iconic Millennium Stadium. The WISERD Conference is the largest […]

Wylfa Workforce Redundancies: “Mind the Gap”

Posted on 17 June 2015 by Home of Innovation Blog

On May 21st 2015 Magnox announced that 1600 jobs would be lost across its 12 UK nuclear sites. This news came as no great surprise to the workforce at Wylfa on Anglesey, […]

Storied Lands

Posted on 14 April 2015 by Home of Innovation Blog

Our lives, and the landscapes in which we live in, are storied in nature. These stories come in many different forms: from policy materials, census data, media reports, official documents […]

Assembling Newtown and Everyday Globalization

Posted on 31 March 2015 by Home of Innovation Blog

This week the WISERD blog is delighted to host a guest blog relating to the ‘Global Countryside: Rural Change and Development in Globalization (GLOBAL-RURAL)’ - a major research project funded […]