Current Academic Fellows

Professor Paul Carr (University of South Wales) is producing a report that will contextualise the Welsh Music Industries in a post Covid-19 world, as well as reviewing the public and private sector initiatives available to Welsh music industry stakeholders. After outlining the impacts of the various routes the Welsh music industries has available to it coming out of lockdown, his report will consider what Wales can learn from the ways in which other nations around the world have supported their music industries, in addition to outlining a series of recommendations.

Professor Diana Stirbu (London Metropolitan University) is assessing the effectiveness of Senedd committees, using the Theory of Change and co‑design methods to develop the framework. Through a series of contextual research, in depth qualitative interviews and co-design workshops with the main stakeholders (politicians and officials primarily), she is developing a Theory of Change framework that can be customised for each committee, but which contains common measures of effectiveness and methods of assessing them. The purpose of her fellowship is to elicit a shared understanding of the context in which the committees operate, of their raison d’etre and of the impact they want to achieve across multiple dimensions. It builds on her previous work done together with Professor Laura McAllister (Cardiff University) that investigated the scrutiny capacity of committees, their role in absorbing constitutional change or shaping parliamentary activity, as well as their public engagement role.