Credit: Sophie Brown, CC Share Alike 4.0 Int. There is a well-established conventional wisdom that today’s young people are a politically alienated generation, meaning that they are seen as estranged […]
Has Brexit increased the political engagement of Britain’s youth? The idea that Brexit has engaged the young to such an extent that they voted in high numbers in the recent […]
Public trust in the political establishment is an integral part of voter choice in any election or referendum, but more crucially it upholds the democratic process. Without some degree of […]
Professor Grigori Kliucharev Professor Grigori Kliucharev recently presented as part of the WISERD Civil Society seminar series. His presentation, ‘Social and political participation in building democracy in Russia: The role […]
Credit: Pixabay, Creative Commons CC0 WISERD PhD student, Sian Evans, recently presented her PhD research as part of the WISERD Cardiff lunchtime seminar series. She explores whether the Omnivore Thesis […]
Credit: Pixabay, Creative Commons CC0 Professor John Morgan recently presented his research on higher education and social justice in China at a WISERD lunchtime seminar. Professor Morgan has been collaborating […]
Credit: Pixabay, released under Creative Commons CC0 – College student, Heads of the Valleys. The dominant view among young people with regard to Brexit, is one of anger or frustration […]
Election, by Nick Youngson, at nyphotographic.com, CC BY-SA 3.0 Theresa May’s shock announcement of a general election to be held on June 8th (assuming Parliament approves) means that in just […]
House of Commons: MPs debate 2013 Queen's Speech by Catherine Bebbington/Parliamentary Copyright, Flickr, CC-BY-2.0 In recent blogs, we have explored the impact of Brexit, and the stances taken by the […]