I am writing in response to the Welsh Language and Communications Committee's consultation on its priorities for the Fifth Assembly. As a leading research university with extensive expertise and capacity in a range of areas that your Committee is likely to consider, Cardiff University is well placed to support your Committee in its deliberations, and we would be delighted to do so. We would welcome details of your forward work programme which would allow us to identify potential experts who may be able to help.

By way of example, our School of Journalism, Culture and Media Studies is a top rated institution in the UK for media teaching and research that not only helps to shape the research agenda in international media, journalism and communication, but has outstanding expertise in media and cultural analysis that is frequently drawn upon by government and other agencies.

I would also like to take this opportunity to invite your committee to visit the University to see the work we are doing in the field of culture, Welsh language and communications. Our Welsh for All programme, for example, offers Cardiff University students the opportunity to learn Welsh alongside their academic studies, whatever they may be. I hope that your committee would find such a visit useful as you develop your work plan for the Fifth Assembly.