PhD Funding Opportunities 2018/19 Entry

https://www.aber.ac.uk/en/interpol/study-with-us/postgraduate/phd/funding/#esrc-dpt-collaborative-studentship ESRC Wales DTP Studentship Opportunities ESRC DPT Collaborative Studentship ESRC Wales Doctoral Training Partnership  Collaborative Studentship (fixed project): ‘Tackling policy challenges that others cannot reach: sub-state governments, policy integration and policy mainstreaming’ The studentship will critically engage with approaches to policy integration and policy mainstreaming across a range of public policy fields, including gender…

Cardiff reception for Centre for Welsh Politics and Society / WISERD@Aberystwyth

A new Aberystwyth University research centre dedicated to developing a greater understanding of contemporary politics and society in Wales completed its launch year with a reception in Cardiff Bay last Thursday 14 December. The Centre for Welsh Politics and Society /WISERD@Aberystwyth (CWPS) brings together geographers, modern historians, political scientists and psychologists to tackle some of the pressing…

Special Achievement Award for Aberystwyth academic

A leading Welsh academic working on global health politics has been acknowledge for his life-time’s contribution to social science research in Wales. Professor Colin McInnes, UNESCO Professor of HIV/AIDS Education and Health Security in Africa at the Department of International Politics at Aberystwyth University, was presented with the Special Achievement Award at the 2017 Wales…

Aberystwyth academics shortlisted for social research awards

Researchers at Aberystwyth University have been shortlisted for awards at the 2017 Welsh Social Research Awards which take place in Cardiff on Thursday 7 December. Hosted by the Social Research Association and sponsored by Welsh Government Cabinet Secretary for Finance Mark Drakeford AM, the awards recognise and celebrate outstanding research by social science researchers in…

Seminar Series Governance, Participation and Civil Society theme: Participation in rural civil society in later life: practices of stewardship and spaces of care, Dr Sophie Yarker, Dr Jesse Heley & Dr Laura Jones, DGES, Aberystwyth University

Seminar series Governance, Participation and Civil Society theme Wednesday 22nd November   @ 1.10 pm Steve Crichter room, International Politics Participation in rural civil society in later life: practices of stewardship and spaces of care, Dr Sophie Yarker, Dr Jesse Heley & Dr Laura Jones, DGES, Aberystwyth University  Abstract The demographic trend of increased longevity…

Seminar Cyhoeddus – Public Seminar ‘Understanding Wales’

Seminar Cyhoeddus – Public Seminar ‘Understanding Wales’ Dr Leon Gooberman, Prifysgol Caerdydd / Cardiff University Seminar Elin ‘Understanding Wales’ Leon Gooberman 131117 ‘Economic change and government reaction in Wales, 1934-2006’ 12.00 Dydd Llun, 13 Tachwedd, 2017 Ystafell y Bwrdd, Y Ganolfan Delweddu, Campws Penglais, Prifysgol Aberystwyth 12.00pm, Monday 13 November 2017 Executive Board room, Visualisation…

Senedd motion on carbon emissions reduction based on work at Aberystwyth University

Government evaluation of a scheme developed at Aberystwyth University to reduce carbon emissions will be debated at the National Assembly for Wales on Wednesday 4 October 2017. Sponsored by a cross party group of Assembly Members, the motion calls on Welsh Government to commission a feasibility study into the introduction of Personal Carbon Accounts in…

ESRC – Festival of Social Science Schools Event : Imagining Alternative Futures for Mid Wales

This interactive event will enable young people to analyze data and information about the diverse challenges facing Mid Wales. It will also encourage them to devise solutions to these challenges, as a way of imagining an alternative and sustainable future for the region. The event is aimed at 16-18 year olds (sixth form), and will…

Conference addresses what the future holds for languages in a post-Brexit UK

As the debates and scrutiny of the EU Withdrawal Bill continue, Aberystwyth University is hosting a conference on the implications of Brexit for language policy. The UK Language Policy after Brexit 2017: The Influence of Devolution conference on Thursday 21 September takes place against a back-drop of widely reported falls in the numbers of young…

Lifting the veil of kindness: ‘friendship’ and settler colonialism in Argentina’s Welsh Patagonia

The peaceable impulse of the Welsh in a global context of colonial brutality stands out as a beacon of generosity, yet even this ‘friendship’ served to reinforce, not undermine, the colonising project in Argentina and beyond, writes Lucy Taylor (Aberystwyth University). In July 2015, people in Argentina’s Chubut Province – and in Wales – commemorated the 150th anniversary of the…