A cuppa and 7 digestive videos on the voluntary sector

Dr Amy Sanders of Aberystwyth University & Wales Institute of Social & Economic Research & Data (WISERD) has created a series of bitesize videos aimed at practitioners that share her research on the relationship between the voluntary sector and Welsh Government in the time that it takes to have mug of tea.  Amy’s background in…

Award for PhD research on Institutionalising Equalities

An Aberystwyth University Post-Doctoral Research Associate was one of this years’ recipients of the Audrey Jones Memorial Award.  Dr Amy Sanders received this award for her PhD research, which was titled: Institutionalising Equalities? Exploring the Engagement of Equalities Organisations in the Welsh Third Sector-Government Partnership. As an award winner, Dr Sanders was invited to give a paper at…

CWPS-WISERD members awarded Best Paper at Voluntary Sector and Voluntary Research Annual Conference

This year CWPS-WISERD members Dr Jesse Heley, Dr Flossie Kingsbury, Dr Sally Power, Dr Amy Sanders and Dr Najia Zaidi were awarded the prize for Best Paper at Voluntary Sector and Voluntary Research Annual Conference.  The Campbell Adamson Memorial Prize is awarded each year for the Best Paper at Voluntary Sector and Voluntary Research (VSVR) Annual…

New chapters for CWPS-WISERD academics on language policy and planning

Three Aberystwyth University academics have written chapters in a new book that celebrates Professor Colin Williams’ contribution to the field of language policy and planning.  Language, Policy and Territory contains 18 chapters by Williams’ former students, colleagues and collaborators, including Professor Rhys Jones, Dr Huw Lewis and Dr Elin Royles, who are based at the Centre for Welsh Politics and Society (CWPS). The…

CWPS-WISERD Co-Director appointed to Independent Commission on the Constitutional Future of Wales

An expert on territorial and constitutional politics from Aberystwyth University has been appointed Commissioner to the new Independent Commission on the Constitutional Future of Wales. Dr Anwen Elias, CWPS-WISERD Co-Director and Reader in Politics in the Department of International Politics, was among the nine appointed individuals announced by the Counsel General and Minister for the…

A National Conversation on Wales’s Constitutional Future

In the latest edition of The Welsh Agenda, CWPS-WISERD Co-Director Dr Anwen Elias, CWPS Executive Board member Matthew Jarvis, Mike Corcoran and Noreen Blanluet discuss what a national conversation on Wales’s constitutional future should look like.  The discussion is based on the Constitutional Futures project which is based in Aberystwyth University and is led by…

Historic manuscripts inspire contemporary climate change poetry

Three poets from Aberystwyth University have penned a series of poems in response to old manuscripts from the National Library of Wales dealing with the weather and climate change. The poetry and manuscripts will be displayed online and in a shop window in the centre of Aberystwyth as part of the University’s Festival of Research…
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‘Nawr yw’r amser cywir i ddechrau trafod dyfodol Cymru yn y Deyrnas Unedig’

‘Now is the right time to start discussing the future of Wales in the United Kingdom’  CWPS Co-director and Principal Investigator of the Constitutional Futures project Dr. Anwen Elias is interviewed by Golwg360 on the future of Wales.  Read the interview here: https://golwg.360.cymru/newyddion/gwleidyddiaeth/2068664-nawr-amser-cywir-ddechrau-trafod-dyfodol-cymru
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Wales is having a rethink about its place in the UK – could it lead the way for everyone else?

Wales is having a rethink about its place in the UK – could it lead the way for everyone else? Anwen Elias, Aberystwyth University and Matt Wall, Swansea University Can the United Kingdom survive Brexit? This remains one of the great unanswered questions of our time. Politically, two major narratives have dominated. The first is that…

Showing true colours: the changing politics of race equality in Wales

Racial equality in Wales was the focus for the 2021 Centre for Welsh Politics and Society Annual Lecture that over 200 people watched live on Zoom this week. The lecture, Showing true colours: the changing politics of race equality in Wales, was presented by Professor Charlotte Williams OBE, Chair of the recent Welsh Government Working Group…