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Young people and Brexit: what do Millennials want out of Brexit?

Young people and Brexit: what do Millennials want out of Brexit?

Posted on 1 March 2017 by WISERD

'#Brexit' by Jonathan Rolande at House Buy Fast, is licensed under CC BY 2.0 In last week’s blog we discussed the generational divide between the Millennials and their elders in […]

Young people and Brexit: a generational divide

Young people and Brexit: a generational divide

Posted on 24 February 2017 by WISERD

Photo credit: tirc83, iStock The EU Referendum highlighted a dramatic difference of opinion regarding the most important decision facing the British electorate for a generation, with younger voters overwhelmingly supporting […]

Why do we volunteer?

Why do we volunteer?

Posted on 21 February 2017 by WISERD

Photo credit: Moorefam, iStock Hannah Blake is a PhD student at Cardiff University and recently contributed to the WISERD Cardiff lunchtime seminar series with a presentation on her master’s degree […]

Young people and Brexit: long-term political engagement

Young people and Brexit: long-term political engagement

Posted on 17 February 2017 by WISERD

As part of the Young People and Brexit project, WISERD will be creating a series of short films with young people. In this blog, Dr Sioned Pearce discusses some of […]

Young people and Brexit: one year on

Young people and Brexit: one year on

Posted on 14 February 2017 by WISERD

The decision to leave the European Union on 23rd June 2016 was potentially the most dramatic ever taken by the British electorate. Not only did it fly in the face […]

Biography as we know it

Biography as we know it

Posted on 30 January 2017 by WISERD

Credit: bulentozber, iStock Dr Marta Eichsteller reflects on the challenges of biographical narratives in ethnographic research on civil society. Doing biographical narrative research as part of an ethnographic project is […]

The IDEAL study: finding strategies to live well with dementia

The IDEAL study: finding strategies to live well with dementia

Posted on 25 January 2017 by WISERD

Finding strategies to live well with dementia is increasingly a focus of UK government policy.  But, we know relatively about what living well with dementia means to the people and […]

Just how much of a problem is cyberbullying in Wales?

Just how much of a problem is cyberbullying in Wales?

Posted on 13 January 2017 by WISERD

Young peoples’ social media usage on the rise Amongst young people social media has been consistently growing in popularity over the past ten years. EU Kids Online’s research on young […]

Devolution – no strings attached?

Devolution – no strings attached?

Posted on 19 December 2016 by WISERD

The Sheffield City Region (SCR) faces considerable problems in terms of economic and social inequality. As the Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS) emphasises, there has been a marked decline in […]

A neoliberal inconvenience

A neoliberal inconvenience

Posted on 30 November 2016 by WISERD

As part of my ethnographic research on the WISERD Civil Society project examining participation over place and time, I’ve spent the last year or so visiting two north east Wales […]