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all-Wales network targets obesity

All-Wales network targets obesity, smoking and exercise in schools

5 June 2014

Launch of all-Wales network to improve the health of school children.

Launch of new research centre at Cardiff University that will focus on children’s social care in Wales.

Health Minister launches new children’s social care research centre

27 May 2014

CASCADE to focus on community-based responses to social need in children and families.

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Tweeting the Terror

22 May 2014

COSMOS study finds Twitter love for Lee Rigby stronger than hate for his killers

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Twitter shows love for Lee Rigby

22 May 2014

Love triumphs over hate in Twitter reaction to Lee Rigby murder.

Engaging in public dialogue

16 May 2014

Dr Richard Watermeyer has led three large scale UK-wide consultations with the public to evaluate their views on emerging science and technology research and policies.

Professor Mike Levi

Prestigious Sellin-Glueck award for Cardiff criminologist

12 May 2014

Professor Mike Levi is this year’s recipient of the Sellin-Glueck award in criminology, the highest award given by The American Society of Criminology to scholars from outside the USA.

Two School of Social Sciences staff elected as Fellows of The Learned Society of Wales

24 April 2014

Professor Paul Atkinson and Dr Sara Delamont have been elected to The Learned Society of Wales in the 2014 Election of new Fellows

Academics join forces to call for children’s equal protection from physical assault

28 March 2014

A group of senior Welsh academics have come together to call for the Welsh Government to bring forward legislation to remove the legal defence of ‘reasonable punishment’ for adults who physically assault children.

Left to right, Dr Sarah Main, Phillipa Oldman, Professor Alan Felstead, John Gill, Cathy Newman.

Research results used to prompt the skills debate

19 March 2014

Research results emerging from the Skills and Employment Survey continue to inform the skills debate.

Professor Martin Innes

Cardiff professor is first ever academic appointed to College of Policing committee

12 March 2014

Professor Martin Innes has been appointed to the College of Policing's professional committee to provide support on a range of national policing issues.