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WISERD Annual Conference 2018 PROGRAMME

DRAFT: Version 8 29.03.17

Wednesday 18 July – Day One

9.30-10:00

Registration Opens. Tea / coffee [Coffee Lounge]

10.00-10.15

Welcome Address: Ian Rees Jones, WISERD Director and Paul Harrison, Interim Dean of the Faculty of Computing, Engineering & Science and Pro Vice-Chancellor Research, University of South Wales Room: The Main Hall

10:15-11:45

Session One

Parallel 1A - Wellbeing (1): Welsh legislation and policy goals

Parallel 1B – Education and attainment

Parallel 1C – Employment and economy

Parallel 1D – Dimensions of local & national inequalities (1)

Parallel 1E – Symposium – Sucessful futures for all: Explorations of curriculum reform

Room: Main Hall Room: 9 Room: 11 Room: 12 Room: 10

Session Chair: Session Chair: Session Chair: Session Chair: Session Chair:

Title: ‘A more equal Wales’? Exploring the interpretation of the Well-being of Future Generations Act 2015. Authors: Jennifer Law, Katharina Sarter, Catherine Farrell and Steve Smith (University of South Wales)

Title: Developing writing skills of learners with persistent literary difficulties through the explicit teaching of grammar in context. Authors: Anna McCormack-Colbert (Ysgol Bryn Elian and Bangor University). Jean Ware and Susan Wyn Jones (Bangor University)

Title: The effect of European funded labour market programmes on enhancing employment in Wales. Author: Rhys Davies (Cardiff University)

Title: Moments of alignment in devolved social policy: the case of Wales. Authors: Sioned Pearce, Christala Sophocleous and Helen Blakely (Cardiff University)

Title: Sucessful futures for all: Explorations of curriculum reform Authors: Nigel Newton (Cardiff University), Susan Chapman (Aberystwyth University), Carmel Conn (University of South Wales, Owen Davies (Bangor University), Judith Kneen



Title: Everyday lives: exploring the experiences of people with a learning difficulty in the early stages of the new Social Services and Well-being Act (Wales) 2014. Author: Daron Owens (Bangor University)

Title: Mathematics attainment and the role of socio-demographics in Northern Ireland primary schools. Author: Erin Early (Queen’s University Belfast)

Title: The North Wales Growth Deal; implications of an urban growth model for a rural peripheral region. Authors: David Beel and Martin Jones (Staffordshire University), Alexandra Plows (Bangor University)

Title: Fatalistic youth: explaining young people’s perceptions of institutional efficacy in solving youth unemployment in the UK. Authors: Emily Rainsford and William Maloney (Newcastle University)

(Cardiff Metropolitian University) ans Helen Lewis (University of Wales Trinity Saint David)

Title: Uncovering a trilemma in the emerging Welsh well-being policy agenda: the Wellbeing of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015 and conflicts between utilitarian, egalitarian, and prioritarian understandings of fairness. Author: Steve Smith (University of South Wales)

Title: Qualification nation: how not getting 5 ‘good’ GCSEs affects the life chances of young people in Wales. Author: Lucy Williams (Bevan Foundation)

Title: Why are sexual minorities less satisfied at work? Author: Samuel Mann (Swansea University)

Title: Families, poverty and children’s life chances: tensions and challenges. Author: Gideon Calder (Swansea University)

Title: Social network analysis for modelling integrated social care services for older people with complex needs: a feasibility study. Authors: Alison Orrell, David Dallimore, Anne Krayer and Peter Huxley (Bangor University)

Title: Tiering as a method of differentiation in the GCSE: a fair assessment practice? Author: Rhian Barrance (Cardiff University)

Title: A participatory evaluation of The Sexual Exploitation Advocacy Support Service (SEASS), Wales. Authors: Sarah Wallace, Carolyn Wallace (University of South Wales), Terry Price, Barbara Walsh and Wendy Booth (SEWREC)

Title: Evaluating public policy: the case for realistic evaluation. Author: Duncan Holtom, (People and Work)

11:45-12:15

Refreshment Break [Coffee Lounge]

12:15-1.45

Session Two



Parallel 2A – Wellbeing (2): happiness, environment, and identity

Parallel 2B – Panel - Addressing inequalities in education: the impact of the Pupil Deprivation Grant in Wales

Parallel 2C – Health & social welfare

Parallel 2D – Dimensions of local and national inequalities (2)

Parallel 2E – Using the WISERD DataPortal as a data discovery tool for research

Room: Main Hall Room 9: Room: 11 Room:12 Room: 10

Session Chair: Session Chair: Session Chair: Session Chair: Session Chair: Scott Orford, Cardiff University

Title: How the other half live: an empirical analysis of happiness inequality and identity in Northern Ireland. Author: Tara McNeil (Swansea University)

Title: Addressing inequalities in education: the impact of the Pupil Deprivation Grant in Wales. Contributors: Chris Taylor (Cardiff University), Joanne Starkey and David Roberts, (Welsh Government)

Title: School composition, school culture and socioeconomic inequalities in young people’s health: multi-level analysis of the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) survey in Wales. Authors: Graham Moore, Hannah Littlecott, Rhiannon Evans, Gillian Hewitt and Simon Murphy (Cardiff University)

Title: Personal carbon accounts and their impacts on low-income households with high emissions. Author: Martin Burgess (Aberystwyth University)

Using the WISERD DataPortal as a data discovery tool for research Scott Orford, Ian Harvey, Katie Dickson and Samuel Jones (Cardiff University) The WISERD DataPortal is a web application that enhances a researcher’s ability to search, discover, map and download socio-

Title: Is the tail wagging the dog? Cross-sector collaboration between an environment group and public bodies. Author: Elizabeth Woodcock (Bangor University)

Title: Gambling: an emerging public health issue for Wales and the UK. Authors: Claire Beynon (Public Health Wales) and Frank Atherton (Welsh Government)

Title: Causation in complex cases: corporate manslaughter in the shadow of Grenfell Tower. Author: Alexandra Dobson (University of South Wales)

economic research data related to Wales. In this session we will demonstrate how the main functions of the WISERD DataPortal can be



Title: How religion impacts upon well-being: an exploration of the direct and indirect effects. Author: Samuel Brown (Swansea University)

Title: Understanding the social and contextual factors influencing timely presentation of lung cancer in deprived areas of the UK. Authors: Kirsty Anderson, Grace McCutchan and Kate Brain (Cardiff University)

Title: The experience of disadvantage through time: insights from a qualitative study in Wales. Authors: Maria Plotnikova, Md Shafiul Azam and Peter Midmore (Aberystwyth University)

used to find and map existing data which are relevant to a research project or question. You will be able to test try out the DataPortal so please bring your own laptop.

Title: The Evolving Role of

Religion in Civil Society: The Changing Nature of the ‘Gateway Effect’ Author: Stuart Fox (Cardiff University)

Title: Existential threats and creative opportunities; an everyday tale of welfare pluralist experimentation in Wales. Or how a statutory duty to promote the third sector in the delivery of social welfare leads to rethinking the role of civil society. Authors: Christala Sophocleous, Paul Chaney and Dan Wincott (Cardiff University)

The WISERD DataPortal is accessible at http://data.wiserd.ac.uk.

1.45-2.30

Lunch [Coffee Lounge]

2.30-4.00

Session Three

Parallel 3A –Panel session - Inspirational landscapes for the people of Wales: the contribution of Welsh National Parks to the Well-being of Future Generations

Parallel 3B - Education Parallel 3C – Global responsibilities & international migration

Parallel 3D- Constructing social indicators

Parallel 3E – Workshop – Getting published in

refereed journals

Room: Main Hall Room:9 Room: 11 Room: 12 Room: 10

Session Chair: Paul Sinnadurai (Brecon Beacons National Park Authority

Session Chair: Session Chair: Session Chair: Session Chair: David James, Cardiff University

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Title: Understanding the role of Welsh National Parks in supporting health and wellbeing: An inverted analysis of how people do health in the context of two activity programmes in Brecon Beacons and Pembrokeshire National Parks. Authors: Sara MacBride-Stewart and Jess Antell (Cardiff University)

Title: Developing minority language higher education provision in Wales: a feasibility study. Author: Mirain Rhys (Cardiff Metropolitan University)

Title: Progressive localism, global responsibility and the negotiation of place. Authors: Michael Woods, Taulant Guma and Sophie Yarker (Aberystwyth University)

Title: Development of the Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2019. Author: Nia Jones (Welsh Government)

Getting published in refereed journals: audiences, processes and purposes Author: David James (Cardiff University) How do you get your work published in a well-recognised journal? What is involved, and why is it important? This session is aimed at anyone new

Title: Perspectives on a contested landscape - meanings and actors in natural resource management in the Brecon Beacons. Author: Matthew Quinn (Cardiff University)

Title: The causal effect of school performance ratings on subsequent performance. Author: Will Cook (Manchester Metropolitan University)

Title: Re-visiting extreme poverty as outlined in Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – evidence from Bangladesh. Author: Palash Kamruzzaman (University of South Wales)

Title: Individual deprivation in Wales: steps towards the construction of a measure using linked survey and administrative data. Author: Ian Thomas (Cardiff University)

to research-based writing for publication in the social sciences. The main focus is on getting social science work published in refereed journals (though we will also consider how such writing differs from that aimed at other audiences and will touch upon other

Title: National Parks and Wellbeing Plans - how the work of the National Park Authorities contributes to Public Service Boards’ Well-being Plan priorities. Author: Clare Parsons (Brecon Beacons National Park Authority/National Parks Authority)

Title: The NCPHWR HAPPEN Network (Health and Attainment of Pupils in a Primary Education Network) – linking health and educational attainment data of pupils aged 9-11 years involved in a Primary School Network. Authors: Emily Marchant and Sinead Brophy (Swansea University)

Title: Wives left behind: a study on the impacts of men’s international labor migration on their wives in Bangladesh. Author: Marzana Binte Kamal (Bangor University)

Title: bibInsight: enabling inequalities research. Authors: Karen Tingay (bibInsight and ADRC-W) and Athanasios Anastasiou (bibInsight)

ways of communicating research outcomes which participants may wish to follow up). We look at examples of journal policy, how editors operate, and at the theory and practice of peer review. The emphasis throughout is on the practical steps that can be taken at each stage in the process.



Title: The role of National Parks in collaborating with multiple stakeholders to recognise, appreciate and realise the benefits of the landscape to the financial, social, environmental and cultural well-being of Wales. Authors: Gwenith Elias and Einir Young (Bangor University)

Title: ‘Equality and Diversity’ training in the UK – managing resistance. Author: Netta Chachamu (Cardiff University)

Title: Inhibiting integration and strengthening inequality? The effects of UK policy making on refugees and asylum seekers in Wales. Author: Sam Parker, Cardiff University

Title: Estimating levels of volunteering for small-areas of Wales. Authors: Nicholas Page, Gary Higgs and Mitchel Langford (University of South Wales)

The workshop includes presentation, activity, a step-by-step guide, discussion and some critique of provided examples. The workshop is led by David James, who is Director of the Wales ESRC Doctoral Training

Title: Young people's engagements with nature, technologies and heritage in National Parks: consequences for wellbeing and access. Author: Tom Smith (Cardiff University)

Training Partnership and Professor in the Cardiff University School of Social Sciences. He is also Chair of the Executive Editors of the British Journal of Sociology of Education.

4.00-5.00

Refreshments, poster viewing and exhibition [Coffee Lounge]

5:00-6:00

Keynote Speaker: Auriol Miller, Director, Institute of Welsh Affairs Title: TBC Room: The Main Hall

6.00-7:30

Drinks, canapes and presentation of poster prize

`Thursday 19 July – Day Two

8.45-9.15

Registration Opens for day delegates only. Refreshments [Coffee Lounge].

9.15-9.20

Welcome Address / Introduction: Ian Rees Jones, WISERD Director [The Main Hall]



9.20-10.15

Keynote Speaker: Title: Room: The Main Hall

10.15-10.45

ESRC Wales Doctoral Training Centre "3MEI" Three-minute engagement & impact session (and prize)

10:45-11:15

Refreshment Break [Coffee Lounge]

11.15-12.45

Session Four

Parallel 4A – Symposium - Civil society and Brexit

Parallel 4B –Dynamics of disadvantage and the role of the state (1)

Parallel 4C –Welsh language Parallel 4D – Civil society in a global context

Room: Main Hall Room: 9 Room: 11 Room: 12

Session Chair: Session Chair: Session Chair: Session Chair:

Authors: Chris Taylor, Jen Hampton, Esther Muddiman and Stuart Fox (Cardiff University)

Title: Digital divide: broadband access implications on agribusiness in rural Wales. Authors: Robert Brown (Swansea University) and Wyn Morris (Aberystwyth University)

Title: Dysgu Cymraeg yn y Gweithle – Pa mor effeithiol yw rheolaeth strategol yr hyfforddiant yn y gweithle? Author: Ifor Gruffydd (Prifysgol Bangor) This paper will be delivered through the medium of Welsh. Simultaneous translation will be provided.

Title: Civil society, human rights and religious freedom in the People’s Republic of China: analysis of CSOs’ Universal Periodic Review discourse. Author: Paul Chaney (Cardiff University)



Author: Ekaterina Kolpinskaya (Swansea University)

Title: The operation of the current non-domestic rates’ system in Wales. Author: Nikolaos Kapitsinis, (Wales Public Services 2025, hosted by Cardiff University Business School)

Title: Pa effaith mae iaith yn cael ar ddyheadau a disgwyliadau gofodol pobl ifanc yng Nghymoedd De Cymru? Author: Siôn Llewelyn Jones (Prifysgol Caerdydd) This paper will be delivered through the medium of Welsh. Simultaneous translation will be provided.

Title: Perceptions of political trust and its determinants: evidence from the European Social Survey. Author: Georgios Melios (Swansea University)

Author: Stuart Fox (Cardiff University)

Title: Understanding differences in town centre performance in Wales: using GIS to develop a typology for benchmarking. Authors: Sam Jones and Scott Orford (Cardiff University)

Title: Mapping the Welsh language and Welshness Author: Rhys Jones (Aberystwyth University)

Title: A journey into the unknown: co-creating a behavioural communication intervention with an indigenous population in British Columbia, Canada to influence road safety behaviours. Authors: Helen Innes, Kate Daunt and Martin Innes (Cardiff University)

Author: Sioned Pearce (Cardiff University)

Title: Does Wales have an elite? Profiling power in Wales. Authors: Hugh Mackay (The Open University) and Graham Day (Bangor University)

Title: Dylanwad ffactorau cymdeithasol a seicogymdeithasol ar drosglwyddo’r Gymraeg o fewn y teulu. Authors: Jonathan Morris, Jeremy Evas a Lorraine Whitmarsh (Prifysgol Caerdydd) This paper will be delivered through the medium of Welsh. Simultaneous translation will be provided.

Title: The world comes to Wales for the weekend? Assembling celebration and resistance at rural festivals. Authors: Samantha Saville and Mike Woods (Aberystwyth University)



12.45-1.30

Lunch [Coffee Lounge]

1:30-3.00

Session Five

Parallel 5A - Housing & homelessness

Parallel 5B –Dynamics of disadvantage and the role of the state (2)

Parallel 5C –Community participation, volunteering & the third sector

Parallel 5D –Education: inequality and mobility



Title: Collaborating for co-production: exploring collaboration in the voluntary sector as a method to forge co-production. Author: Thomas Lambourne (University of South Wales)

Title: Why are the poor still with us? Twenty years of policy in Wales. Author: Victoria Winckler (Bevan Foundation)

Title: Re-Energising Wales: community engagement. Authors: Judith Marquand and Kate O’Sullivan (Cardiff University)

Title: Testing the zero-sum game hypothesis: an examination of school health policy and practice inequalities in educational outcomes. Authors: Sara Long, Hannah Littlecott, Jemma Hawkins, Grahan Moore and Simon Murphy (Cardiff University)



Title: A right to housing: a critique of the responsibilisation of homeless people in Wales. Authors: Hannah Gott, Pete Mackie (Cardiff University), Jennifer Hilgart and Mark Llewellyn (University of South Wales)

Title: ‘Weathering the storm’ – The hidden value of community anchor organisations. Authors: Eva Elliot (Cardiff University), David Frayne, Allan Herbert and Nathan Evans (South Riverside Community Development Centre), Melvyn Jones (3gs) and Sue Cohen (University of Bristol)

Title: Volunteering in later life Authors: Martijn Hoggerbrugge and Ian Rees Jones (Cardiff University)

Title: Opting in or opting out? Addressing inequality of Welsh-medium provision in the Further Education sector. Author: Laura Beth Davies (Cardiff University)

Title: Postcode lottery: local housing allowance. Authors: Will Atkinson and Hayley Macnamara, Community Housing Cymru

Title: Addressing infrastructural inequality with community participation. Author: Elaine Forde, Swansea University

Title: The National Survey for Wales: analysis of volunteering, loneliness and mental well-being. Authors: Steven Marshal and Lisa Walters (Welsh Government), Lucy Prior (University of Bristol)

Title: Inequality of career mobility after Welsh- and English-medium education. Authors: Charlotte Selleck (University of the West of England) and Dave Sayers (Sheffield Hallam University)

Title: Exploring multiple exclusion homelessness through network analysis. Author: Ian Thomas (Cardiff University)

Title: Toilets, public space and social justice. Author: Aled Singleton (Maindee Unlimited)

Title: Looking forward to secondary school? Possible futures and negotiating the secondary transfer. Author: Catt Turney (Cardiff University)

3:00-3:30

Refreshments [Coffee Lounge]

3:30-4:45

Session Six

Parallel 6A –– Symposium - Civil society and the life course

Parallel 6B – Civil society: political & economic participation

Parallel 6C –Panel session - Justice in Wales

Parallel 6D –Education: language, identity, and belonging





Title: Young people and civic participation. Authors: Esther Muddiman, Kate Moles, Chris Taylor and Sally Power (Cardiff University)

Title: Electoral inequalities: youth citizenship and political participation in the 2014 Scottish Independence Referendum. Author: Jonathan Duckett (University of South Wales)

Title: The shape of justice in Wales. Authors: Kate Williams and Heddwen Daniel (University of South Wales)

Title: Boundedness, belonging and becoming: primary school children’s perspectives of education and learning in the South Wales valleys. Author: Gavin Williams (The Open University)

Title: ‘Graduates’ involvement in civil society’ Authors: Ceryn Evans, Gareth Rees and Chris Taylor (Cardiff University)

Title: An understanding of business engagement in schools in Wales. Author: Hannah Blake (Cardiff University)

Title: Dragonisation in youth justice: a beacon of progressive practice or a foundation myth of Welsh devolution? Author: Jonathan Evans (University of South Wales)

Title: Language and identity negotiations in multi-ethnic high schools. Author: Hayat Benkorichi Graoui (Cardiff University)

Title: Understanding volunteering in later life as serious leisure? Authors: Sophie Yarker, Jesse Heley and Laura Jones (Aberystwyth University)

Title: Moving mighty oaks: translocality and social acorns. Authors: Marc Welsh, Samantha Saville and Laura Jones (Aberystwyth University)

Title: A progressive Welsh justice policy space? Revisiting the concept of dragonisation. Author: Robert Jones (University of South Wales)

Title: How do friends and peer associations influence pupils in Wales’ inclusivity in secondary education? Author: Constantino Dumangane Jr. (Cardiff University)

Title: Legacies, bequests and inheritance Author: Rhian Powell (Cardiff University)

Title: The Provision of Careers Guidance in Welsh Schools Authors: Rhys Davies and Suhaer Yunus (Cardiff University)

Title: An investigation into the barriers to education, employment and language instruction experienced by resettled Syrian families across Wales. Authors: Mike Chick (University of South Wales) and Iona Hannagan Lewis (Welsh Refugge Council)



4.45–5.00

Conference closing remarks: Ian Rees Jones, WISERD Director [The Main Hall]

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