Press release for my appointment as Sporting Heritage Wales Co-ordinator Sport has always been important to Wales as a nation: from the ancient game of cnapan, to modern rugby and football; from boxing to cycling, athletics to swimming. Our country has produced an...
Wales failed to qualify for the 1986 World Cup in Mexico. However, one Welshman did grace the stage. Nation Cymru recently published my long read about Paul James, Cardiff-born but who represented Canada in Mexico....
Dr Sarah Morse from the Learned Society of Wales, and Dr Daryl Leeworthy, Rhys Davies Research Fellow at the South Wales Miners’ Library, Swansea University, joined me to celebrate February 2022's Art of Sporting Heritage Month to discuss the significance of football...
Early in the first UK lockdown I reached out to the Community Development sector to see if anyone was interested in sharing their reflections for The Community Development Podcast about how practitioners were responding to the demands of the pandemic and the impact of...
I’m thrilled to finally be able to post links to a piece of research I’ve been involved with over the last two years. It would have been completed sooner but for the pandemic. However, a silver lining to this difficult time has been seeing community anchor...
A while back a tweet flashed before my eyes via the twitter account I co-supervise on behalf of a community group I’m involved with in my corner of Cardiff. Usually, such tweets are related to the local park that we are Friends of and overwhelmingly tend to reflect...
I write this en route home to Cardiff from north Wales where I have spent the day with workers on a pair of parallel community-based employability programmes that operate in many Welsh communities: Communities For Work and Communities For Work Plus – CFW(+). I have...
I attended an event in a sodden Cardiff yesterday hosted by the city’s Life Sciences Hub at which PR agency Claremont were outlining some of their work to around co-production and nudge theory to inform behavioural change campaigns (such as smoking cessation or 5 A...
On 2nd April Russell welcomed Dr Rob Watson from Decentered Media to Cardiff, which provided the opportunity to convert what had been to date a digital interaction into an ‘analogue’ one. We ramble through our respective backgrounds and areas of specialisms –...
With news that NHS England is to create an ‘army’ of social prescribing link workers it is paramount that community development (CD) is at the heart of the concept. The Kings’ Fund says that social prescribing: “enables GPs, nurses and other primary care professionals...