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Our new research examines the contemporary human rights situation of indigenous peoples (IP) in Nepal. By way of context, Nepal has around 26.5 million IP, comprising at least 35 per cent of the total population. Alternatively known as Adivasi, some organisations claim the actual proportion would be closer to 50 per cent if some presently...| Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research and Data
From 8 to 11 July 2025, the WISERD Politics and Governance Research Network held a four-day Quantitative Methods Bootcamp at Swansea University. This intensive course was led by Dr Kevin Fahey, Assistant Professor in Politics at Nottingham University and included lectures, practical demonstrations, hands-on practice and group work. Its aim was to provide essential training...| Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research and Data
The care home sector is experiencing pressures arising from the fall-out of the COVID-19 pandemic and the impact of Brexit on staff shortages, especially impacting on the registered nursing workforce. This is compounded by longer-term financial pressures and on-going staff recruitment concerns, particularly following the latest proposed changes to immigration policy. | Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research and Data
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Research explores how communities can work together to bring about positive change.| Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research and Data
My new research explores civil society and state perspectives on the human rights status of persons with albinism (PWA), a rare genetic condition characterised by reduced or absent pigmentation (melanin) of the hair, skin, and eyes. Albinism has a worldwide incidence of one in 20,000 births. However, rates as high as one in 1,000 births...| Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research and Data
The monograph, Cultural Cold Wars and UNESCO in the Twentieth Century, by W. John Morgan, Leverhulme Emeritus Fellow at WISERD, Cardiff University, and Professor Emeritus at the University of Nottingham, has been nominated for the 2025 Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize in the United States. Established in 1983, the Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize is...| Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research and Data
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On 13 May 2025, Dr Sophie Bartlett, an ADR Wales research associate based at WISERD, at Cardiff University, presented education research at ‘Science and the Senedd’, the Royal Society of Chemistry’s 20th annual event held at the Senedd and the Pierhead in Cardiff Bay.| Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research and Data
Our new research examines the contemporary human rights situation of indigenous peoples in Bangladesh. The team recently undertook corpus analysis of civil society submissions to the latest Universal Periodic Review, the five yearly human rights monitoring exercise conducted by the United Nations.| Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research and Data
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Horserace Politics (HRP) offers a pioneering platform that enables users to predict the outcomes of political events in a competitive, gamified environment. HRP is led by WISERD academics Drs Matthew Wall and Louis Bromfield (both at Swansea University’s Department of Politics, Philosophy and International Relations) in collaboration with Focus Games Ltd. – a commercial partner specialised in game-based learning.| Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research and Data
The striking finding is that the number jumps to 72% among 25-to-34 year olds. Meanwhile older generations, particularly those aged 65 and up, remain firmly in the “no” camp, with 80% opposed.| Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research and Data
This year’s WISERD Annual Conference will take place at Aberystwyth University on Monday 30 June and Tuesday 1 July 2025. The theme of the conference is ‘Participation and partnership in a time of precarity and polarisation’.| Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research and Data
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As someone who has a chronic illness and is immune supressed, I was shielding for long periods during the pandemic. In this prolonged isolation, I felt affinity with some older and disabled people, who historically have been theorised and identified separately. I argue that the COVID-19 pandemic brought together these two groups through some similar experiences of discrimination, isolation and invisibility.| Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research and Data
British farmers are protesting against proposals in the recent budget to change inheritance tax relief on farms. They claim the change will force many farm families to sell land in order to pay tax bills. While that is debatable, this is only the latest grievance for farmers who have had to face rising costs, volatile prices, disadvantageous trade policies and controversial post-Brexit reforms of farm subsidy schemes.| Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research and Data
A new paper in Electoral Studies by Ralph Scott at the University of Bristol and Melanie Jones at Cardiff University investigates the influence of disability on party political preferences.| Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research and Data
Rob French leads the ADR Wales Education research theme. In this blog post, Rob describes how the intersection of education and child health data will be explored in a new special edition of the International Journal of Population Data Science.| Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research and Data
Jen Keating is a Research Associate from the ADR Wales Education theme and the WISERD Education Data Lab. In a new blog post, she describes two workshops she led in November for parents, carers, and educators on how they can best use national data to support children with additional learning needs (ALN) in Wales. These workshops took place at the Norwegian Church in Cardiff Bay as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Sciences.| Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research and Data
Despite being sizeable in many countries, the disability pay gap (DPG) has attracted limited academic and policy attention internationally, especially in comparison to other protected characteristics, such as gender. The recent draft Equality (Race and Disability) Bill announced in the 2024 King’s Speech suggests a major change in the UK in this regard, with the proposed extension of organisational Gender Pay Gap Reporting to disability.| Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research and Data
At the recent WISERD Annual Conference, I gave a seminar with partners from civil society on school exclusion in Wales. The seminar explored the role of civil society in school exclusion and how families experience it. Below, I have included a summary of each presentation and a key takeaway for improving policy or practice.| Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research and Data
Professors Paul Chaney (Cardiff University) and Sarbeswar Sahoo (IIT Delhi) (pictured), in association with Dr Reenu Punnoose (IIT Palakkad) and Dr Haneefa Muhammed have been conducting fieldwork examining civil society perspectives on the contemporary citizenship rights of indigenous people in south India. This is part of research funded by the Academy of Medical Sciences.| Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research and Data
On the 3rd and 4th July, we held our WISERD Annual Conference 2024 at the University of South Wales and welcomed over 140 delegates from across the UK and beyond. Over 100 excellent posters and presentations come together under this year’s theme of ‘Aspiring to achieve a fairer society’.| Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research and Data
The UK’s new government has promised to take action to “promote a positive work-life balance for all workers”, and to prevent homes “turning into 24/7 offices”. The risk of “always on” working has grown since the pandemic, with technology meaning that work is often within easy reach.| Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research and Data
In October 2023, I started an internship with Victim Support. Part of my role was to conduct a literature review in preparation for the production of an accessible report exploring the experiences of victims of hate crime through recent, pre-existing academic research in the field. The main focus of the internship was to make academic knowledge on hate crime easily accessible to different audiences, such as practitioners in the field and the general public.| Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research and Data
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WISERD Co-Director, Paul Chaney, has co-authored a new report in a project led by Dr Steven McCulloch (University of Winchester). The report entitled “Political Animals: The Democratic and Electoral Case for Strong Animal Welfare Policies in UK General Elections”[i] was commissioned as part of a campaign by 23 leading animal welfare NGOs. To locate this in the academic literature, “Partisan Theory” underlines how political parties may act as vectors, advancing civil society demands ...| Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research and Data
WISERD Co-Director, Paul Chaney, has co-authored a new report in a project led by Dr Steven McCulloch (University of Winchester). The report entitled “Political Animals: The Democratic and Electoral Case for Strong Animal Welfare Policies in UK General Elections”[i] was commissioned as part of a campaign by 23 leading animal welfare NGOs. To locate this in the academic literature, “Partisan Theory” underlines how political parties may act as vectors, advancing civil society demands ...| Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research and Data
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New study shows 60% of state school teachers always come home from work exhausted, compared to 37% of teachers at ‘top’ private schools| Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research and Data