Our interdisciplinary research spans the fields of economics, sociology, geography and political science and is grouped under the themes below. You can discover our research networks below too.
WISERD has secured £1.6m of funding from the UKRI Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) for the three-year research programme, ‘People, Places, and the Public Sphere’. The programme will examine ways in which people’s participation in democratic activities, collaborative governance and citizen science can address urgent collective challenges.
We are committed to improving the quality and quantity of social science research, in Wales and beyond, for the benefit of policy and practice across a range of sectors and communities.