2023 Festival highlights

We're inviting all practitioners and food citizens who are interested in creating a more sustainable food system that ensures people in Wales can access nutritious, affordable food to join us for an interactive skill-share workshop exploring why and how we evaluate to create better food systems.

Research into maths anxiety, as experienced and reported by UK undergraduate students, raises questions about what might be considered best practice in teaching.

An exhibition of photographs and short videos highlighting the transformation of care practices involving assistance from animals, particularly dogs (for people with PTSD, autism, dementia, and other physical and mental health conditions and disabilities).

This fun interactive event engages families to think about active travel as an option for shorter journeys.

This event provides the general public, special interest groups, and third sector with a chance to explore how the social sciences contribute to our understanding of health and welfare, influence the development of policies and support health and wellbeing initiatives within society.

In celebration of this year’s Festival of Social Sciences, Cardiff University would like to invite primary and secondary schools to explore our research and the variety of ways the social sciences support lifelong wellbeing at our 'Let's Explore Wellbeing!' day.

Based on the stories of women who dip, dive and swim in rivers, lakes and seas, The Water Holds Me/The Water Binds Us, is a film that celebrates the power of water to restore and revive our relationships with the natural world and each other.

Learn the importance of accessibility to music, and how music can be translated into British Sign Language (BSL).