Outputs (126)

Claiming deservingness: the durability of social security claimant discourses during the Covid-19 pandemic (2025)
Journal Article

The Covid-19 pandemic created extraordinary conditions for social protection systems globally, with both material and discursive implications. In the UK, these unprecedented circumstances led to an influx of (first time) social security claims, expec... Read More about Claiming deservingness: the durability of social security claimant discourses during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Carl's Story: a veteran's experience of the benefits system (2025)
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Since 2017, the University of Salford has been leading a project funded by the Forces in Mind Trust (FiMT) called Sanctions, Support & Service Leavers. The project represents the first, and only, substantive research to provide an understanding of ve... Read More about Carl's Story: a veteran's experience of the benefits system.

Benefits conditionality in the UK: is it common, and is it perceived to be reasonable? (2025)
Journal Article

Programme-level data suggests that increasing numbers of claimants are subject to work-related behavioural requirements in countries like the UK. Likewise, academic qualitative research has suggested that conditionality is pervasive within the benefi... Read More about Benefits conditionality in the UK: is it common, and is it perceived to be reasonable?.

Benefits Conditionality in the United Kingdom: Is It Common, and Is It Perceived to Be Reasonable? (2025)
Journal Article

Programme‐level data suggest that increasing numbers of claimants are subject to work‐related behavioural requirements in countries like the United Kingdom. Likewise, academic qualitative research has suggested that conditionality is pervasive within... Read More about Benefits Conditionality in the United Kingdom: Is It Common, and Is It Perceived to Be Reasonable?.

Navigating the minefield: Veterans’ experiences of the benefits system over time (2025)
Report

Benefits conditionality in the UK: is it common, and is it perceived to be reasonable? (2024)
Journal Article

Programme-level data suggests that increasing numbers of claimants are subject to work-related behavioural requirements in countries like the UK. Likewise, academic qualitative research has suggested that conditionality is pervasive within the benefi... Read More about Benefits conditionality in the UK: is it common, and is it perceived to be reasonable?.

How Do Those Who Have Served Deserve to Be Treated? Military Veterans in the U.K. Social Security System (2024)
Journal Article
Martin, P., Scullion, L., Young, D., Pardoe, J., Hynes, C., & Jones, K. (2024). How Do Those Who Have Served Deserve to Be Treated? Military Veterans in the U.K. Social Security System. Armed Forces and Society, https://doi.org/10.1177/0095327x241286860

Military service has often been a basis for civilian welfare entitlements. If mass wartime service justified collective provision, it is now suggested professional militaries have been co-opted to support reformed welfare models in which entitlement... Read More about How Do Those Who Have Served Deserve to Be Treated? Military Veterans in the U.K. Social Security System.

Benefits assessments and veterans: lessons from the Sanctions, Support and Service Leavers project (2024)
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Young, D., Scullion, L., Martin, P., Hynes, C., & Pardoe, J. (2024). Benefits assessments and veterans: lessons from the Sanctions, Support and Service Leavers project. Forces in Mind Trust (FiMT)

Towards a trauma-informed social security system in the UK (2024)
Journal Article

Trauma-informed care (TIC) applies trauma theory to the design of social and health services, to promote client engagement and avoid inadvertently harming clients with trauma histories. Various services across the UK have been increasingly embracing... Read More about Towards a trauma-informed social security system in the UK.

Urban poverty and the role of UK food aid organisations in enabling segregating and transitioning spaces of food access (2024)
Journal Article
McEachern, M. G., Moraes, C., Scullion, L., & Gibbons, A. (2024). Urban poverty and the role of UK food aid organisations in enabling segregating and transitioning spaces of food access. Urban Studies, 61(11), 2231-2249. https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980241234803

This research examines the role of food aid providers, including their spatial engagement, in seeking to alleviate urban food poverty. Current levels of urban poverty across the UK have resulted in an unprecedented demand for food aid. Yet, urban pov... Read More about Urban poverty and the role of UK food aid organisations in enabling segregating and transitioning spaces of food access.