Archive for the ‘Society News’ Category

New Honorary Fellows offer powerful messages

The risks we face from environmental changes in the Arctic and Antarctica, and the need to listen to marginalised communities were the messages delivered by two of our new Honorary Fellows last month

Professor Jane Francis, who is Director of... Read More

LSW at the Eisteddfod 2025

We are going to have a strong presence at this year's Eisteddfod in Wrexham. Here are the events we are running as well as the events that some of our Fellows are involved in.


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International Women’s Day 2025: Our Commitment to #AccelerateAction

The theme of this year’s International Women’s Day is ‘Accelerate Action’. It is a day for us to stress our commitment, as an organisation, to improving equity, diversity and inclusion. We will be welcoming and inclusive and will ensure Fellows from under-represented groups have a voice... Read More

Our ‘Equity, Diversity and Inclusion’ journey… so far

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 Welcomes Royal Society Te Apārangi

The impact academies can have on current policy debates was one of the issues discussed at a meeting between the Learned Society of Wales and New Zealand’s Royal Society Te Apārangi today.

The visit from by Distinguished Professor Dame Jan... Read More

Making Connections: Aberystwyth ‘Meet and Greet’

The LSW is in Aberystwyth for a day of get-togethers, part of our efforts to be an inclusive, welcoming Society and to demonstrate the important role the LSW and its Fellows can play in helping find solutions to real-world challenges.