A new partnership between the Learned Society of Wales and The Williamson Trust will offer three grants of up to £10,000 each for projects that create content for audiences in Wales and beyond which is inno... Read More
Archive for the ‘ECR Network’ Category
ECR Blog: ‘Devolved Jurisdictions as spaces for aspirational legislation’ by Dr Caer Smyth and Genevieve Gunn
29 August, 2025
Dr Caer Smyth is interdisciplinary legal researcher at Cardiff University (School of Law and Politics) who employs socio-legal research methodologies to explore problems of environmental law and procedural environmental justice. Genevieve Gunn is a PhD student at the Sc... Read More
ECR Blog: ‘Decolonisation in the context of Welsh Higher Education’ by Dr Ahmed Raza Memon
28 August, 2025
Dr Ahmed Raza Memon is a Lecturer at Cardiff University with expertise in decolonial research and teaching, focusing on building student informed pedagogical practices. The author has published in The Law Teacher, London Review of International Law and International Journal of Law in Co... Read More
LSW Colloquium 2025: Prioritising the needs of ECRs
18 June, 2025
Next month’s third LSW annual Colloquium for early career researchers will run over two days for the first time in a sign of its growing importance in Wales’ research environment.
Dr William Perry is a postdoctoral researcher at Cardiff University’s Water Research Institute. In November 2024 he gave the keynote talk at the annual Read More
ECR Blog: Dr Shubha Sreenivas reflects on the ‘Disability in Wales’ ECR Expert Forum
17 February, 2025
On the 5th of February 2025, Early Career Researchers from across Wales gathered at Wrexham University to participate in an Expert Forum on ‘Disability in Wales’ chaired by Professor Ruth Northway FLSW. The forum brought ECRs together with policymakers, third-sector organ... Read More
Researcher Development Advisory Group Launched
28 January, 2025
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
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
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
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