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Mediating the claim? How ‘local ecosystems of support’ shape the operation and experience of UK social security (2022)
Journal Article
Edmiston, D., Robertshaw, D., Young, D., Ingold, J., Gibbons, A., Summers, K., …de Vries, R. (2022). Mediating the claim? How ‘local ecosystems of support’ shape the operation and experience of UK social security. Social Policy and Administration, 56(5), 775-790. https://doi.org/10.1111/spol.12803

Local state and third sector actors routinely provide support to help people navigate their right to social security and mediate their chequered relationship to it. COVID-19 has not only underlined the significance of these actors in the claims-makin... Read More about Mediating the claim? How ‘local ecosystems of support’ shape the operation and experience of UK social security.

Rethinking housing supply and design : Feminist Green New Deal policy paper (2021)
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Gibbons, A. (2021). Rethinking housing supply and design : Feminist Green New Deal policy paper

Housing is fundamental to life, security and wellbeing as well as tackling climate change and working towards a zero-carbon future. It also remains a key site of gender and intersectional inequality, with design that does not accommodate diverse need... Read More about Rethinking housing supply and design : Feminist Green New Deal policy paper.

Understanding lived experiences of food insecurity through a paraliminality lens (2021)
Journal Article
Moraes, C., McEachern, M., Gibbons, A., & Scullion, L. (2021). Understanding lived experiences of food insecurity through a paraliminality lens. Sociology, 55(6), 1169-1190. https://doi.org/10.1177/00380385211003450

This article examines lived experiences of food insecurity in the United Kingdom as a liminal phenomenon. Our research is set within the context of austerity measures, welfare reform and the precarity experienced by increasing numbers of individual... Read More about Understanding lived experiences of food insecurity through a paraliminality lens.

Non-take-up of benefits at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic (2021)
Report
Baumberg Geiger, B., Scullion, L., Summers, K., Martin, P., Lawler, C., Edmiston, D., …de Vries, R. (2021). Non-take-up of benefits at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic

The benefits system – particularly Universal Credit (UC) – has played a major role in Britain’s COVID-19 response, and it is no surprise that there has been an emphasis on how well it has responded. Most experts so far have suggested that UC has per... Read More about Non-take-up of benefits at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Claimants’ experiences of the social security system during the first wave of COVID-19 (2021)
Report
Summers, K., Scullion, L., Baumberg Geiger, B., Robertshaw, D., Edmiston, D., Gibbons, A., …Ingold, J. (2021). Claimants’ experiences of the social security system during the first wave of COVID-19

COVID-19 arrived in the UK early in March 2020. By 23rd March 2020, the UK experienced the first national lockdown. As businesses and livelihoods stalled, an unprecedented number of applications were made for Universal Credit (UC). Drawing on data fr... Read More about Claimants’ experiences of the social security system during the first wave of COVID-19.

Navigating pandemic social security : benefits, employment and crisis support during COVID-19 (2021)
Report
Edmiston, D., Robertshaw, D., Gibbons, A., Ingold, J., Baumberg Geiger, B., Scullion, L., …Young, D. (2021). Navigating pandemic social security : benefits, employment and crisis support during COVID-19

An expanding range of external actors and organisations have come to mediate the relationship between benefit claimants and the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). Reflecting on the important role benefits, crisis and employment support play in t... Read More about Navigating pandemic social security : benefits, employment and crisis support during COVID-19.

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 (2020)
Report
Geiger, B., Scullion, L., Summers, K., Martin, P., Lawler, C., Edmiston, D., …de Vries, R. (2020). 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

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.

Claiming but connected to work : Welfare at a (Social) Distance Rapid Report #1 (2020)
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Geiger, B., Karagiannaki, E., Edmiston, D., Scullion, L., Summers, K., Ingold, J., …Gibbons, A. (2020). Claiming but connected to work : Welfare at a (Social) Distance Rapid Report #1

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.

Rural homelessness : prevention practices in Wales (2019)
Journal Article
Gibbons, A., Madoc-Jones, I., Ahmed, A., Jones, K., Rogers, M., & Wilding, M. (2020). Rural homelessness : prevention practices in Wales. Social Policy and Society, 19(1), 133-144. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1474746419000368

Homelessness is largely understood as an urban issue and so rural homelessness is to a large extent invisible in both academic literature and in policy and practice discussions, just as it is often invisible in discourses of everyday rural life. This... Read More about Rural homelessness : prevention practices in Wales.

Challenges to implementing the new homelessness prevention agenda in Wales (2019)
Journal Article
Ahmed, A., Madoc-Jones, I., Gibbons, A., Jones, K., Rogers, M., & Wilding, M. (2020). Challenges to implementing the new homelessness prevention agenda in Wales. Social Policy and Society, 19(1), 157-169. https://doi.org/10.1017/S147474641900040X

Devolution presented an opportunity for the Welsh Government to introduce changes to housing and homelessness policy, and the subsequent homelessness reforms are seen as one of the best examples to date of the Welsh Government using its powers. Howev... Read More about Challenges to implementing the new homelessness prevention agenda in Wales.

Policy transfer and part 2 of the Housing Act (Wales) 2014 (2019)
Journal Article
Wilding, M., Madoc-Jones, I., Ahmed, A., Gibbons, A., Jones, K., & Rogers, M. (2020). Policy transfer and part 2 of the Housing Act (Wales) 2014. Social Policy and Society, 19(1), 171-182. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1474746419000344

Part 2 of the Housing Act (Wales) 2014and its implementation has been keenly observed by governments outside of Wales, as they continue to search for policy solutions to help address the homelessness crisis.This paper examines the extent to whichther... Read More about Policy transfer and part 2 of the Housing Act (Wales) 2014.

Working and homeless : exploring the interaction of housing and labour market insecurity (2019)
Journal Article
Jones, K., Ahmed, A., Madoc-Jones, I., Gibbons, A., Rogers, M., & Wilding, M. (2020). Working and homeless : exploring the interaction of housing and labour market insecurity. Social Policy and Society, 19(1), 121-132. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1474746419000332

Alongside an increasing focus on ‘prevention’, moving homeless adults into work is frequently considered an important part of helping them overcome homelessness and sustain an ‘independent’ life. However, a growing evidence base shows that work does... Read More about Working and homeless : exploring the interaction of housing and labour market insecurity.

Counterhegemony (2019)
Book Chapter
Gibbons, A. (2019). Counterhegemony. In E. A. Antipode Editorial Collective (Ed.), Keywords in Radical Geography: Antipode at 50 (74-77). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119558071.ch13

Keyword entry for 50th Anniversary edition of Antipode. The richness of hegemony as a term in theorising revolution comes initially from Antonio Gramsci, although Perry Anderson shows its previous use by intellectuals of the Russian Revolution and... Read More about Counterhegemony.

The five refusals of white supremacy (2018)
Journal Article
Gibbons, A. (2018). The five refusals of white supremacy. American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 77(3-4), 729-755. https://doi.org/10.1111/ajes.12231

This article draws on the work of Charles Mills to posit white supremacy as a global political, economic and cultural system. Resistance among people of color is, and has always been, widespread. The focus here, however, is on what Mills (1997:18) de... Read More about The five refusals of white supremacy.