News WCPP engagement survey At WCPP, we are always striving to ensure that what we do is of value to our audiences and stakeholders which include local and national decision makers, practitioners and academics, and to identify opportunities to improve our approach. To help with this, we have designed a short survey to understand how we are perceived and for some […] Read more August 5, 2025
News Community Wellbeing Website launched to help make a change for RCT residents Rhondda Cynon Taf Health Determinants Research Collaboration (RCT HDRC), which is co-led by the Council and the Wales Centre for Public Policy and funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), is inviting everyone who, lives, studies, works or plays in the County Borough to be part of making a change to […] Read more Topics: Children and families Community collaboration Housing and homes Improving public services July 31, 2025
News Community Wellbeing Search for partner to produce community collaboration tool/resource We are commissioning the development of a tool, resource or process, that supports public and community sector actors to take evidence-informed-actions to strengthen multisectoral collaborations that improve community wellbeing. In the next phase of our work on Community Wellbeing and as part of the Resourceful Communities Partnership (RCP), we are seeking to commission a partner […] Read more Topics: Improving public services Loneliness July 31, 2025
News WCPP research highlighted at international public policy conference A range of WCPP research will feature at the seventh International Conference on Public Policy in Chiang Mai, Thailand over the course of this week. WCPP’s Professor James Downe, Dr Eleanor MacKillop and Dr Hannah Durrant will chair a panel over two days on Evidence use: empirical insights on practices and impact of knowledge mobilisation […] Read more July 30, 2025
News Critical decisions needed to ensure sustainability of local government in Wales Position paper highlights ways councils can future-proof themselves Read more July 30, 2025
News WCPP to be part of £5.9m collaboration to improve use of academic evidence in policy making The Wales Centre for Public Policy at Cardiff University will benefit from a £5.9m multi-university project to develop the capacity of the Universities Policy Engagement Network (UPEN) to drive academic-policy engagement across the UK. UPEN is a UK-wide network of university-based public policy engagement units, of which WCPP is a core member and this investment […] Read more July 30, 2025
News Poverty Stigma Insight Network provides platform for young people to share research with decision makers Ahead of Mental Health Awareness Week, WCPP and Save The Children Cymru brought young people together to share their youth-led research on the effects of poverty and stigma on their generation Read more July 30, 2025
News Youth voice focus for Poverty Stigma Insight Network We are thrilled to be working with Save the Children Cymru to co-host the next meeting of our Poverty Stigma Insight Network which will focus on the voices and experiences of young people in relation to poverty stigma in Wales. The in-person event on 8 May will provide an opportunity for a group of young […] Read more July 30, 2025
News Dan Bristow appointed WCPP Director Professor Dan Bristow has been appointed as Director of the Wales Centre of Public Policy. Dan has played a critical role in shaping WCPP as a leading knowledge brokering organisation that supports local and national policy makers in Wales by connecting them with the best available, independent evidence and expertise to help tackle major policy […] Read more July 30, 2025
News Shaping a sustainable future for local government in Wales WCPP and WLGA have established a working group to develop a clear vision and set of proposals to support a sustainable future for local government in Wales. Read more July 30, 2025
