Welcome to the early- and mid-career researchers joining our LSW Advisory Group for Researcher Development. Together with LSW Fellows, they will shape... Read More
Author Archive
Shaping policy: giving research a voice in the Senedd
20 January, 2025
How can we ensure that the latest research is seen by politicians and legislators, helping them to make well-informed decisions and improving the quality of their policy work?
Finding answers to this pressing question is Read More
Celtic Academies Alliance Shines Light on Effective Research Culture
14 January, 2025
Collaboration, training research leaders and clear values are all essential in creating an inclusive and effective research culture.
These were among the many important lessons to emerge from the Research and Innovation Culture Conference hel... Read More
Professor Geraint Jenkins, Historian of Wales and Founding Fellow of the LSW, 1946 – 2025
Professor Geraint Jenkins, former Director at the University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies and a Founding Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales, has died at the age of 78.
Professor Jenkins who was raised in Penparcau... Read More
Our ‘Equity, Diversity and Inclusion’ journey… so far
17 December, 2024
Professor Terry Threadgold FLSW is a feminist scholar, internationally acclaimed for her work on gender, race and identity. Here, she charts the equity, diversity and inclusion journey the Learned Society of Wales has been on since it formed in 2010 and identifies the hurdles that remai... Read More
LSW Grant Scheme Sparks Huge Response from Welsh Researchers
11 December, 2024
Unprecedented interest in our research workshop grant scheme has led to twenty-six projects, across four different themes, receiving funding.
Topics range from Wrexham football club to cosmic rays, gender workplace equity to food banks in an ... Read More
Social science research in Wales gets significant funding boost
18 November, 2024
The Welsh Graduate School for the Social Sciences, which launched in October, marks a significant moment for social science research in Wales. We’re delighted to be one of the partners who are involved with this important and collaborative initiative.
Read MoreResearch from Wales Celebrated as Society Reveals its 2024 Medallists
13 November, 2024
We are thrilled to announce the recipients of this year's Learned Society of Wales medals. This is always a highlight of our year, an opportunity to celebrate the superb achievements of established and early career researchers from Wales.
The... Read More
Apply for our Researcher Development Advisory Group
4 November, 2024
The approach to our researcher development programme has an important emphasis: we want researchers to be at the heart of our wo... Read More
ALLEA makes fresh case for open access scholarly publishing
23 October, 2024
A call to provide researchers across the EU with ‘secondary publication rights’ (SPR) has been made by the European Federation of Academies of Scienc... Read More