Institute of Welsh Affairs

Jess Blair is joined by Daran Hill, Professor Roger Scully and Liz Silversmith to discuss the latest poll for the Assembly elections, released just hours before Wales votes.

Daran Hill, Owen Hathaway, Ian Lewis and Jess Blair discuss the winners and losers from the recent debates, ahead of next week's assembly elections.

This week's IWA Podcast looks at the big issues following the publication of the party manifestos ahead of May's election. Jess Blair is joined by Daran Hill, MD of Positif, and Rhodri Evans of FSB Wales.

The findings of the latest Wales Barometer Poll are discussed in the second election special from the #IWAPodcast. Jess Blair is joined by Daran Hill, Gareth Hughes and Professor Roger Scully.

In the first election special of the IWA Podcast Jess Blair is joined by MD of Positif Daran Hill, and Golwg's Assembly Correspondent Gareth Hughes, to discuss the big issues in Welsh politics. Today's podcast looks at the debate over the steel crisis and a new report showing Wales' £15bn deficit. These weekly podcasts will run up to the Assembly elections on May 5th.

The #IWADebate in partnership with Cardiff University asked the question 'Would compulsory voting give the unheard a voice?' Here Dr Stuart Fox from Cardiff University's WISERD makes the case that compulsory voting would increase participation and better represent the parts of society let down by politics.

The #IWADebate in partnership with Cardiff University asked the question 'Would compulsory voting give the unheard a voice?' Katie Ghose, Chief Executive of the Electoral Reform Society, argues that alternative methods of electoral reform would offer a much more positive vision of democracy than compulsory voting.

Playwright Kaite O'Reilly talks to the IWA's Dylan Moore about her new play 'Cosy', the invisibility of the aged and new ways we might approach conversations about death.

IWA Director Lee Waters interviews James Purnell, BBC Director of Strategy, at the Cardiff Media Summit 2015. They discuss issues around Welsh English language TV provision and the representation of Wales on the BBC.

Leader of the Welsh Liberal Democracts, Kirsty Williams AM, gives her response to the IWA's Let's talk cancer report.

Ruth Taylor, a current cancer patient, tells of her experience of cancer care in Wales at the launch of the new IWA report 'Let's talk cancer'. #IWACancer

Prof Kevin Morgan discusses his IWA Senedd Paper

Former Labour Cabinet Minister John Denham discusses the movement towards greater devolution in England

IWA Director, Lee Waters, asks Berkeley Prof AnnaLee Saxenian what Wales can learn from Silicon Valley at the The Learned Society of Wales / Bangor University International Symposium on Economic policies for peripheral countries at Portmeirion in Gwynedd

IWA Director, Lee Waters, asks Harvard Professor Ricardo Hausman at The Learned Society of Wales / Bangor University International Symposium on Economic policies for peripheral countries at Portmeirion in Gwynedd

IWA Director, Lee Waters, asks Cambridge Professor Ron Martin at The Learned Society of Wales / Bangor University International Symposium on Economic policies for peripheral countries at Portmeirion in Gwynedd

IWA Director, Lee Waters, asks LSE Professor Steve Gibbons at The Learned Society of Wales / Bangor University International Symposium on Economic policies for peripheral countries at Portmeirion in Gwynedd

Councillor Rhiannon Passmore asks Eluned Parrott AM and IWA Economy Chair, Gerald Holtham, whether politicians should be borrowing money for economic projects in a time of austerity.

The IWA's recent report, An economic strategy for Wales?, calls for increased ambition and risk from the Welsh Government in order to boost the economic from its current mediocrity. Here, Professor David Blackaby argues against this approach.

Louise Harris, CEO of the Big Learning Company and Chair of the IWA Education Group, discusses how we can improve the education system as a way of bettering the Welsh economy.

Elizabeth Haywood discusses the Welsh language and how language needs to be taught in closer alignment with the economy at our IWA annual Economy Conference.

Admiral CEO, Henry Engelhardt and Simon Gibson, Chief Executive, Wesley Clover Corporation discuss whether the Welsh Government should insist on a share of companies they back or simply give them a grant. The discussion took place at the IWA's annual Welsh Economy conference on March 23 2015 in the Wales Millennium Centre

Admiral CEO, Henry Engelhardt; Former Bank of England MPC member Marian Bell and Simon Gibson, Chief Executive, Wesley Clover Corporation discuss the prospects of the Welsh Economy at the IWA conference on March 23 2015 in the Wales Millennium Centre

Wesley Clover Chief Executive Simon Gibson sets out his critique of the Welsh economy at the IWA's annual Economy Conference on March 23rd at Cardiff's Wales Millennium Centre. He drew on his experience ReNewport task force which set out to develop an economic regeneration strategy for Newport city

Gerald Holtham and IWA Director Lee Waters discuss the think-tank's report, An Economic Strategy for Wales?