Commentary

Commentary 7 March 2024

Q and A with Kathryn Williams, PhD intern

We caught up with Kathryn Williams who has recently spent three months as a PhD intern with WCPP. Kathryn is an ESRC funded PhD student...

Commentary 1 March 2024

Exploring and enhancing the role of lived experience

The Wales Centre for Public Policy is delighted to be hosting an 18-month UKRI Fellowship to explore and enhance the role of lived experience expertise

Commentary 8 November 2023

Let’s talk about poverty stigma

We are launching a programme of work to support public services and policy makers in Wales to better understand how poverty stigma affects their communities,...

Commentary 11 October 2023

Fair’s fair? Equality, equity and access to tertiary education

As the new Commission for Tertiary Education and Research gears up, Jack Price explores what more can be done to create a fairer system for...

Commentary 19 July 2023

A Revolution by Stealth? Basic Income Experiments Proliferate

In this guest blog on basic income, Professor Guy Standing looks at the growing number of basic income trials around the world, and the evidence...

Commentary 17 July 2023

Basic income: What is it and what it isn’t

In this guest blog, Dr Francine Mestrum looks at three different forms of basic income - a universal basic income, a basic income for those...

Commentary 19 June 2023

Not everybody wants a goat!

Five takeaways from our conference on Wales' basic income pilot

Commentary 16 June 2023

It’s time to talk about loneliness inequalities

In this blog, Josh Coles-Riley explains why the Wales Centre for Public Policy has commissioned a major new review of research on loneliness inequalities – and...