…Through stories, images and videos captured by local, West African artists, ‘Community – from Wales to West Africa’ explores how the pandemic has both brought communities together and forced them…
How to plant 300 million trees
…(from the UK Treasury’s point of view) the public interest company has to be completely independent of Welsh Government; or, if the public interest company is controlled by Welsh Government,…
Poetry’s Place in the Face of the Climate Crisis
…the bay – or the buried forests in Borth beach) or a communal memory of the gradual, or episodic, inland creep of the shoreline committed to verse, it speaks to…
Talking the Talk but not Walking the Walk: The Contradictions of the Levelling Up White Paper
…might have devolved powers, while their neighbours such as Devon, Suffolk and Lancashire might not. Evidently this is bound to fail. The unwillingness to change the inner workings of the…
Unlocking the Potential of Swansea Bay City Region
…and can generate huge wealth is ICT. There is a tendency for ICT companies to cluster in and around university cities, such as Swansea. With the quality of ICT graduates…
What might a ‘national conversation’ look like?
…commission to consider Wales’ constitutional future, to be informed by a national civic conversation. The biggest challenge is that of involving people beyond the ‘usual suspects’ of politicians, political commentators,…
The Green Skills Challenge
…public, and private sectors, all committed to reaching net zero carbon in South Wales. The major industrial companies involved stretch from the Pembrokeshire Coast to the Severn Bridge, along the…
IWA Annual Economy Conference – City Regions: from aspiration to reality?
…and the Cardiff City Region. But the recent Williams Commission report on public service delivery was silent on the role of city regions, and the challenge of responding to its…
IWA North Wales Branch:The Wrexham Prison debate/Trafodaeth Carchar Wrecsam
…the panel will be the Reverend Nan Wyn Powell Davies, a former Prison Chaplain with wide experience of working and supporting prisoners, ex-prisoners, their families and communities in the Welsh…