There has been much scrutiny of the British benefits system during COVID-19, and most experts agree that the benefits system has performed well, even if historic weaknesses remain. Yet little attention has been paid to those who start a claim that is... Read More about At the edge of the safety net : unsuccessful benefits claims at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic - Welfare at a (Social) Distance Rapid Report #3.
Outputs (126)
Claiming but connected to work : Welfare at a (Social) Distance Rapid Report #1 (2020)
Report
This report presents the first findings from the Welfare at a (Social) Distance project,
a major national research project investigating the benefits system during the COVID19 pandemic, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council as part of U... Read More about Claiming but connected to work : Welfare at a (Social) Distance Rapid Report #1.
Wasted lives in scapegoat Britain : overlaps and departures between migration studies and disability studies (2019)
Journal Article
The focus of this paper is to consider how disability studies and migration studies may be brought into further conversation with one another. While their experiences overlap and intersect in many ways, the lives of disabled people and migrants have... Read More about Wasted lives in scapegoat Britain : overlaps and departures between migration studies and disability studies.
Work, welfare and wellbeing? The impacts of welfare conditionality on people with mental health impairments in the UK (2019)
Journal Article
The personal, economic and social costs of mental ill-health are increasingly acknowledged by many governments and international organisations. Simultaneously, in high income nations the reach of welfare conditionality has extended to encompass many... Read More about Work, welfare and wellbeing? The impacts of welfare conditionality on people with mental health impairments in the UK.
Sanctions, support & service leavers : social security benefits and transitions from military to civilian life (2019)
Report
Scullion, L., Dwyer, P., Jones, K., Martin, P., & Hynes, C. (2019). Sanctions, support & service leavers : social security benefits and transitions from military to civilian lifeResearch report presenting findings from the first UK research focusing on the experiences of veterans in the social security system.
Housing works : assessing the impact of housing association employment support (2019)
Report
Wilding, M., Jones, K., Martin, P., & Scullion, L. (2019). Housing works : assessing the impact of housing association employment supportSocial housing providers in the UK have a long history of delivering support to their residents beyond housing, including providing employment related assistance. A small but growing area of research investigates the role of employment support outsid... Read More about Housing works : assessing the impact of housing association employment support.
Sanctuary to sanction : asylum seekers, refugees and welfare conditionality in the UK (2018)
Journal Article
Successive UK Governments have introduced a raft of legislation that has reduced
the level of support for asylum seekers, whilst simultaneously attaching conditions
to the receipt of this support. While refugee status brings people into the mainstr... Read More about Sanctuary to sanction : asylum seekers, refugees and welfare conditionality in the UK.
The impact of conditionality on the welfare rights of EU migrants in the UK (2018)
Journal Article
This paper highlights and explores how conditionality operating at three levels (the EU supra-national level, the UK national level and in migrants’ mundane ‘street level’ encounters with social security administrators), come together to restrict and... Read More about The impact of conditionality on the welfare rights of EU migrants in the UK.
Roma persons and EU Citizenship (2018)
Book Chapter