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The latest news from the Learned Society of Wales

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 the subject of our next Early Career Researchers Network webinar (29 January), which will explo... 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 held by the Celtic Academies Alliance (CAA) in Dublin in November 2024. Th... 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 remain to be cleared. It is intere... 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 impressive demonstration of the scope of the grant scheme’s coverage. ... 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. The WGSSS will invest £40 million in social science research ... Read More

Research 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 medals celebrate the full range of disciplines. The subject specialisms o... 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 work, shaping the direction of travel and developing their skills in the process.  That’s why we’re inviting applications for early and mid-career researchers to join our Advisory G... 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 Sciences and Humanities (ALLEA). Secondary Publication Rights (SPR) would allow researchers to share publicly-funded scholarly articles through their institutional, or o... Read More

Dillwyn medallist wins prestigious Leverhulme prize

21 October, 2024
Huge congratulations to Dr Iestyn Woolway on being awarded a prestigious Leverhulme prize. We're especially excited to see this because Dr Woolway received one of our 2023 Dillwyn Medals, which are awarded to recognise early career research excellence. Dr Woolway, Reader at Bangor University’s School of Ocean ... Read More