Blog Post Research and Impact PhD Internships – Learning by doing In January 2021, the Wales Centre for Public Policy welcomed two doctoral students on three-month ESRC funded internships. Aimee Morse from the University of Gloucestershire studied a local evidence ecosystem - a case-study of a farmer group in North Wales, and Findlay Smith from Aberystwyth University worked with us to study the Welsh Government’s use […] Read more Research and Impact: PhD interns April 29, 2021
Blog Post Research and Impact It ain’t what you (can) do it’s the way that you do it How can devolved governments deliver distinctive policies? Just because a government has the power to do something, it doesn’t always mean that it can actually do it. So what makes the difference? We explored this question in a recently published article which we wrote with Steve Martin. The question matters because making policy and law […] Read more Research and Impact: Impact Methods and approaches April 14, 2021
Blog Post Environment and Net Zero Climate Change: Making the Transition Happen in Wales Recent developments give reasons to be ambitious about what Wales can do to tackle climate change. In December 2020, the UK’s Climate Change Committee (CCC) recommended that Wales move to target Net Zero emissions by 2050, above its previous recommendation of a 95% reduction. Environment Minister Lesley Griffiths has committed to putting this target in […] Read more Topics: Just Transition Net Zero April 7, 2021
Blog Post Tackling Inequalities Embedding Black and minority ethnic history, identity and culture into Welsh education “Black history is Welsh history, and Welsh history is Black history” Mark Drakeford, First Minister of Wales (October 2020) The new Curriculum for Wales 2022 presents an interesting challenge for progressing the ambition to see the representation of Black, Asian and minority ethnic perspectives, histories and contributions embedded in the educational diet of every […] Read more Topics: Diversity and inclusion Education inequalities March 17, 2021
Blog Post Tackling Inequalities Domiciliary Care: what it’s really like? My Name is Lucy and I currently work as a Policy Officer for the National Commissioning Board, (NCB). The NCB is made up of representatives from Health & Social Care organisations in Wales. The aim of the board is to support and promote the integration of Health & Social Care through commissioning, policy and practice. […] Read more Topics: Health inequalities Lived experience February 17, 2021
Blog Post Tackling Inequalities Fairer Futures: Understanding Inequality in the Our Future Wales consultation The Welsh Government launched the Our Future Wales consultation in May 2020 with the aim of identifying ideas and solutions for rebuilding Wales following the Coronavirus pandemic. The public consultation drew more than 2,000 responses from individuals, groups, and organisations across the country and gathered a range of opinions - from ideas about public spaces […] Read more Topics: Diversity and inclusion February 1, 2021
Blog Post Tackling Inequalities Post-Brexit Migration and Wales: Potential impacts of the new system and recommendations on the priorities for influencing UK immigration policy. Following the end of free movement on 31st December 2020, thinking turns not only to the impacts of the new immigration system, but also to how devolved nations can seek to respond to these changes. A recent report by Dr Eve Hepburn and Professor David Bell for the Wales Centre for Public Policy (WCPP) provides […] Read more Topics: Diversity and inclusion Economy January 15, 2021
Blog Post Community Wellbeing Using fishing opportunities to support mental health and wellbeing in the Welsh fishing industry As the UK leaves the European Union, much has been made of the post-Brexit opportunities for new governing legislation. In few industries is this more acutely felt than in the fishing industry, where there have been calls for a “sea of opportunity” as the UK becomes an independent coastal state with control over its waters. […] Read more Topics: Community collaboration Health inequalities December 15, 2020
Blog Post Research and Impact What might implementation science and knowledge mobilisation mean for What Works Centres? Implementation science (IS) and knowledge mobilisation (KMb) are just two concepts in the plethora of ideas and terms developed over the last decades in narrowing the gap between knowledge being produced and knowledge being used in policy and practice. Other terms include knowledge brokering, knowledge transfer, co-production, dissemination science, and knowledge exchange. Most of them […] Read more Research and Impact: The role of KBOs December 8, 2020
Blog Post Tackling Inequalities Caring for the Care Sector: How Can We Support New Models of Home Care Social care needs help. We can only describe a service as in “crisis” for so long until that becomes the norm, and the very name “domiciliary care” makes it sound like a chore that needs to be completed. In our drive to “fix” the social care system we have begun to speak about it as […] Read more Topics: Employment Health inequalities work and skills December 3, 2020
