Research Skills Workshop for Sociology and the Welsh Baccalaureate for A and AS Level students. Presentations on primary and secondary data. Presentations by Dr Rhian Hodges, Bangor University (Primary Data) and Dr Siôn Llewelyn Jones, Cardiff University (Secondary Data).

On March 31st, 2022, Academi Heddwch will be hosting a one-day (on-line) conference on the theme of Peace and Health. In partnership with the Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol and Aberystwyth University, the call for papers for this event has attracted contributions that explore peace and health through a variety of lenses.

Throughout the day, panels will be discussing peace and health in the context of e.g.:

• urban planning
• language planning
• engineering
• water
• well-being
• marginalised groups
• creativity

Keynote speakers:

Professor Rowan Williams, Chair of Academi Heddwch

Professor Colin McInnes, Aberystwyth University

The aims of these workshops is to:

To introduce the main basics of Research Methods to postgraduate students with the following objectives:

• trace the history and origins of theories of research methodology;
• introduce the core concepts of research methods;
• offer various techniques of qualitative and quantitative research;
• key steps in creating a research plan.

Content:

These online workshops are split into three parts covering key research method concepts and key stages in creating a research plan.

• Part 1 - The purpose of social research: epistemology, ontology and empirical research;
• Part 2 - Research perspectives, strategies and questions
• Part 3 - Analyzing and interpreting data.

Presenter: Dr Rhian Hodges

Dr Rhian Hodges has been a Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Social Policy at the School of History, Law and Social Sciences at Bangor University for over a decade. She teaches Welsh-medium modules in education, sociology, language planning, sociology of music and research methods and loves teaching a wide range of different subjects through the medium of Welsh.

Her specialist area of ​​research is language planning, and in particular new Welsh speakers, community use of the Welsh language, and Welsh-medium education as a means of revitalizing the Welsh language in Wales.

Originally from Bargoed, the Rhymney Valley, she has been living in Bangor for some time now. She's used to traveling up and down the A470 to see family and friends of the valleys.

These workshops will benefit postgraduate students who are planning their dissertations and theses as it offers an opportunity to consider the critical stages of the research process and how it relates to their own research.

The aims of these workshops is to:

• Introduce different types of qualitative methods
• Outline what needs to be considered before, during and after qualitative research is undertaken. 
• Consider the ethical issues associated with qualitative research
• Outline how to analyse and present qualitative data.

Content:

• Workshop 1 explores the different types of qualitative methods and creative methods. 
• Workshop 2 looks at what needs to be considered when trying to access our research participants and before conducting the research. 
• Workshop 3 focuses on what needs to be considered during and after conducting our research and the ethical issues associated with qualitative research. 
• Workshop 4 looks at how to analyse and present qualitative data.

Presenter:

Dr Siôn Llewelyn Jones

Siôn is a lecturer in the School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University. He has been developing Welsh-medium provision in the School and teaches on a number of modules, including research modules. Siôn has extensive experience of carrying out qualitative research. He has worked on a number of research projects for different organisations, such as the Children’s Commissioner of Wales, Public Health Wales and the Welsh Government. In 2017, he finished his PhD. For his doctoral research, Siôn explored the aspirations of young people attending a Welsh-medium and an English-medium school in the south Wales valleys. In these research projects, he was involved in their planning as well as interviewing participants and carrying out focus groups face to face, online and on the telephone

These units focus on studying contemporary Wales. Several key themes within the social sciences are discussed, drawing on examples from Wales, thus providing a unique Welsh language resource for students.

Each unit contains the following:

• abstract
• lecture in the form of video presentations
• multiple choice quiz
• seminar questions
• bibliography. 

Contributors to this theme:

• Dr Cynog Prys
• Dr Rhian Hodges
• Professor Rhys Jones
• Dr Siôn Llewelyn Jones
• Dr Rhys D. Jones
• Dr Gareth Evans-Jones.

These resources have been created with support from the HEFCW Investment and Recovery Fund.

The individual units listed below are also available as one resource here.

This resource introduces students to some of the main theorists and theoretical works within the theme of sociological theory. Each unit contains the following:

• abstract 
• lecture in the form of short video presentations
• multiple choice quiz
• seminar questions
• bibliography.

Contributors to this theme:

• Dr Cynog Prys
• Dr Rhian Hodges
• Professor Rhys Jones
• Dr Siôn Llewelyn Jones
• Dr Huw Williams.

These resources have been created with support from the HEFCW Investment and Recovery Fund.

The individual units listed below are also available as one resource here.

Free online conference on possible career options for those wishing to work with children or young people (not including teaching). The conference was held on Wednesday 16 February 2022 through the medium of Welsh with no simultaneous translation. 

• 1.00: Keynote Speaker – Gwenllian Lansdown Davies, Chief Executive of Mudiad Meithrin  
• 2.00: Employability Panel – The Urdd (Aled Pickard), Academy Arts Performing School and actress (Jalisa Andrews), GISDA (Siân Elen Tomos), Play Wales (Matthew Jenkins)
• 2.50: BREAK
• 3.00: Enterprise – a talk with Gwenllian Stephens who set up Cwtch Nursery in Carmarthenshire  
• 3.30: Further Qualification Panel – learn about pursuing other courses after leaving college;  speech therapy (Catrin Phillips), probation (Eirian Evans), social work (Gwenan Prysor, Bangor University) and university research (Cadi Siôn, Bangor University)
• 4.15: Open discussion
• 4.30: Finish

Recordings of the individual sessions can be veiwed below:

An attractive package of resources to support the teaching of sociology through the medium of Welsh. These materials are aimed at pupils studying Sociology A Level in schools across Wales, and first year students studying the subject at university. More materials will be added in due course.

Araith a draddodwyd gan yr athronydd J. R. Jones yn Eisteddfod y Barri 1968 yn trafod y Cymry Cymraeg fel pobl a'u hawydd i oroesi.

Lenin oedd y gwleidydd cyntaf mewn unrhyw wlad i greu chwyldro ar sail egwyddorion Karl Marx. Ai llwyddiant ai methiant fu'r hyn a gyflawnodd ef rhwng 1917 a'i farw ym 1924? Cyn y gellir gosod llinyn mesur ar yr hyn a wnaeth, y mae angen deall yr amgylchiadau y digwyddodd y Chwyldro Comiwnyddol ynddynt, amgylchiadau a oedd yn bur wahanol i'r rhai lle disgwyliasai Marx weld gweithredu ei syniadau. Disgrifir yn y gyfrol hon gyflwr pethau yn Rwsia cyn y Chwyldro, gan amlinellu'n gryno ddatblygiad y gymdeithas a'i sefydliadau. Eir ymlaen i roi braslun o yrfa gyffrous Lenin ac olrheinir rhediad ei syniadau wrth iddo ymlafnio i droi dadansoddiad Marx yn rhaglen o weithredu ymarferol.

Cyfrifir Ludwig Wittgenstein gan lawer yn athrylith hynotaf yr ugeinfed ganrif mewn athroniaeth. Y mae hefyd yn unigryw yn ei faes gan iddo greu nid un athroniaeth ond dwy, y ddwy yn wreiddiol, dylanwadol a gwrthgyferbyniol. Ceisir yn y gyfrol hon esbonio mewn iaith seml ei ddau safbwynt sydd i'w gweld yn Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus ac yn yr Ymchwiliadau Athronyddol.

With the publication of its Welsh-medium Education Strategy in April 2010, the Welsh Assembly Government recognised the leading role of Welsh-medium education in the field of bilingual education throughout Europe and the world during the last fifty years. As the system further develops with increasing numbers of pupils choosing bilingual education in Wales, it is emphasised that it is important to be aware of the patterns and models available in other bilingual communities that successfully integrate bilingualism or multilingualism into their provision so that we can understand their relevance to our particular situation in Wales. This article gives an overview of the most recent developments in bilingual education in an international context and considers the important issues that emerge as this type of education continues to develop to cater for the needs of pupils in bilingual and multilingual communities throughout the world in the twenty-first century.