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‘Study highlights climate mitigation potential of encouraging Earth’s forests to regenerate naturally.’

13 October, 2020

Latest news from Aberystywth University: 'Allowing forests to grow back naturally should be considered alongside other measures like large-scale tree-planting as a critical nature-based approach to mitigating climate change, according to a major new study that maps potential aboveground carbon accumulation rates fo... Read More

Jeremy Hooker – Selected Poems 1965-2018

7 October, 2020

The Selected Poems 1965 - 2018 of Jeremy Hooker, Emeritus Professor of English at the University of South Wales, were published this summer. This volume draws on over 50 years of poetry written by a poet who stands a little askew to the dominant modes in Britain: an Englishman in Wales, and an Englis... Read More

The R&D Roadmap: What is the Welsh Perspective?

7 October, 2020

The Foundation for Science & Technology is running The R&D Roadmap – Levelling Up Across the UK, on 7th October. Ken Skates MS provides a Welsh perspective alongside Amanda Solloway MP and Professor Richard Jones FRS. Read More

World Peace Day: All universities in Wales sign up to establish Academi Heddwch Cymru

21 September, 2020

Today, on World Peace Day, every university in Wales has signed a Memorandum of Understanding, along with the Learned Society of Wales, the Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol and the Welsh Centre for International Affairs, leading to the establishment of Academi Heddwch Cymru. Academi Heddwch Cymru’s aim is to extend Wa... Read More

Professor Sir Vaughan Jones

8 September, 2020

We regret to report the death of Professor Sir Vaughan Jones, one of our Honorary Fellows. Mathematics was revolutionised by Sir Vaughan in the early 1980s when he found deep connections between subfactors, analytic objects in the theory of operator algebras and topological objects, knots and links in three-dimensi... Read More

News from the Fellows: Publications and Literary Awards

30 July, 2020

Read this interview with Sir John Meurig Thomas about his new book Architects of Structural Biology, which tells story of the emergence of one of the most important subjects in modern science: molecular biology.Cyfri’n Cewri: Hanes Mawrion ein Mathemateg (UWP) by Professor Gareth Ffowc Roberts aims to... Read More

Are you starting a career in research? Join our new national support network

21 July, 2020

Later this year, the Learned Society of Wales will launch a new national support network for early career researchers. We’re giving you the opportunity to sign up now to receive our emails, so that you will know when we organise our first online meetings. The network is aimed at anyone who is starting a career in... Read More

Celebrate excellence: 2021 Fellowship nominations now open

30 June, 2020

The Fellowship Nomination and Election Cycle is now open. The deadline for nominations is 31 October 2020. See here for further details. Election to the Fellowship is a rigorous process, with existing Fellows involved at all stages of nomination and assessment. We welcome nominations of people from all backgro... Read More

UK Government Student Number Controls – comment

11 June, 2020

Today the Learned Society of Wales, the Royal Irish Academy and the Royal Society of Edinburgh have issued a statement in response to the UK Government’s recent announcement on controlled numbers for English domiciled students, in England and in the devolved administrations. As the national scholarly academies fo... Read More

President’s Address 2020

20 May, 2020

Sir Emyr Jones-Parry's six-year tenure as President of the Learned Society of Wales ended at its AGM on 20th May, 2020. He made his final address at the meeting, reflecting on the Society's achievements since it was formed a decade ago, its activities over the past year, not least in the midst of the Covid-19 outbr... Read More

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