Our funders and partners
We work with partners in the higher education and research sector, in Wales and beyond.
We are grateful to the following universities, who provide most of the Society’s core funding:
The University of Wales Trinity Saint David also provides us with office space, meeting rooms and IT support.
We are grateful to Medr: Commission for Tertiary Education and Research (formerly known as HEFCW) for their ongoing core funding, designed to bolster our role as Wales’ national academy, our work to promote research excellence in Welsh higher education and our capacity to act as an independent voice, ensuring that research and innovation is part of policy debates.
We have formed a close working partnership with the Williamson Trust, a charitable trust that promotes education, health and wellbeing through donations to appropriate organisations and individuals.
This partnership has resulted in our Trusted Voices grant scheme and the ‘Reimagining Impact’ project, which seeks to transform how we approach impact, both as a charity, and as a key part of Wales’s research ecosystem.
We are grateful to our Fellows for their support and generosity. As well as volunteering their time, Fellows pay an annual subscription which forms a core part of our charitable income.
Many of our Fellows also make further donations to support one-off projects such as our travel and accommodation bursaries for early career researchers, and we have benefited from generous legacies that Fellows leave in their wills to support the work we do. Further details about making donations and leaving legacies are on our website.
Our other recent funders include:
Welsh Government
Frances Hoggan Medal, Hugh Owen Medal, Trwy Brism Iaith symposium, Wales and the World events, advisory work on the school curriculum
Higher Education Funding Council for Wales
Early Career Researchers’ Network, Wales and the World events, Dillwyn Medals
South Wales Institute of Engineers Educational Trust
Events on STEMM themes, Menelaus Medal
Thriplow Charitable Trust
Wales Studies research snapshot
Partners
We work closely with the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Royal Irish Academy as constituent members of the Celtic Academies Alliance.
The Celtic Academies work as the Seven Academies alongside four other national academies: the Academy of Medical Sciences, the British Academy, the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Royal Society.
The Society is an active member of:
- Academi Heddwch
- ALLEA (European Federation of Academies of Sciences and Humanities)
- Campaign for Science and Engineering
- Foundation of Science and Technology
- Institute of Welsh Affairs
- Parliamentary and Science Committee
- Senedd Cross-Party Group on STEM
We support WISERD’s annual PhD Poster Competition.
Our recent partners on events and activities include:
- Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales
- Bevan Commission
- The British Academy
- Campaign for Science and Engineering
- Cardiff Science Festival
- Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol
- CREW and Literature Wales
- Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion
- Institute of Physics
- Myrddin: The Welsh Network for the History and Social Study of Science
- National Library of Wales
- Royal Society of Biology
- Royal Society of Chemistry
- Senedd Commission
- SHAPE
- Wales Centre for Public Policy