All Outputs (23)

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)
Book

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 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?.

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?.

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.

Living policy: reflections of a researcher on two related qualitative longitudinal studies of the experience of UK social security over time (2024)
Presentation / Conference
Young, D. (2024, June). Living policy: reflections of a researcher on two related qualitative longitudinal studies of the experience of UK social security over time. Paper presented at Contemplating Qualitative Longitudinal Research: Temporalities, Theories and Methods, Helsinki, Finland

Temporal aspects of claimant experience can be overlooked within UK social security policy and research. One reason for this is the tendency to focus on one point in time. In recent years, longitudinal research designs have added an important element... Read More about Living policy: reflections of a researcher on two related qualitative longitudinal studies of the experience of UK social security over time.

Benefits assessments and veterans: lessons from the Sanctions, Support and Service Leavers project (2024)
Report
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.

Accountability, responsibility, and trust in the benefit assessment process: Exploring multi-stakeholder perspectives (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Better Housing Better Health: A qualitative study of energy advice and support in Oxfordshire (2024)
Report
Sherriff, G., & Young, D. (2024). Better Housing Better Health: A qualitative study of energy advice and support in Oxfordshire. Oxfordshire County Council

The Better Housing Better Health (BHBH) service is provided by the National Energy Foundation (NEF) across Oxfordshire and other locations in the south of England. Delivering advice and support to residents to help them stay warm and healthy in their... Read More about Better Housing Better Health: A qualitative study of energy advice and support in Oxfordshire.

Temporality and the meaning of social security money within households (2024)
Book Chapter
Summers, K., & Young, D. (2024). Temporality and the meaning of social security money within households. In F. Bennett, S. Avram, & S. Austen (Eds.), A Research Agenda for Financial Resources within the Household (241-254). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781802204001

The relationship between the temporal aspects of social security policy and intra-household dynamics is under-explored. Temporal aspects of policy, including benefit waiting periods and payment frequency, affect the money management within households... Read More about Temporality and the meaning of social security money within households.

Temporality and the meaning of social security money within households (2024)
Book Chapter

The relationship between the temporal aspects of social security policy and intra-household dynamics is underexplored. Temporal aspects of policy, including benefit waiting periods and payment frequency, affect the money management within households,... Read More about Temporality and the meaning of social security money within households.

‘Universal Credit from administrative and claimant perspectives’ (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Young, D. (2023, November). ‘Universal Credit from administrative and claimant perspectives’. Paper presented at Automating Universal Credit: a roundtable discussion, University of Edinburgh

Welfare attitudes in a crisis: How COVID exceptionalism undermined greater solidarity (2023)
Journal Article

COVID-19 had the potential to dramatically increase public support for welfare. It was a time of apparent increased solidarity, of apparently deserving claimants, and of increasingly widespread exposure to the benefits system. However, there are also... Read More about Welfare attitudes in a crisis: How COVID exceptionalism undermined greater solidarity.

Towards A Trauma-informed Social Security System (2023)
Report
Scullion, L., Young, D., Martin, P., Hynes, C., Pardoe, J., & Curchin, K. (2023). Towards A Trauma-informed Social Security System. Forces in Mind Trust

Welfare at a (social) distance : accessing social security and employment support during the Covid-19 and its aftermath (2022)
Book Chapter

This chapter reflects on both our key findings and our experiences of undertaking the research during the pandemic. First, we examine the experiences of claimants, focusing specifically on Universal Credit (UC) and those who were engaging with the be... Read More about Welfare at a (social) distance : accessing social security and employment support during the Covid-19 and its aftermath.

Social security during Covid-19: The experiences of military veterans (2022)
Book Chapter

Research published prior to Covid-19 has illustrated some of the difficulties that veterans can experience within the benefits. Drawing upon unique insights from the UK’s first substantive qualitative research focusing on veterans within the benefits... Read More about Social security during Covid-19: The experiences of military veterans.

Maximising the health impacts of free advice services in the UK : a mixed methods systematic review (2022)
Journal Article
Young, D., & Bates, G. (2022). Maximising the health impacts of free advice services in the UK : a mixed methods systematic review. Health and Social Care in the Community, 30(5), 1713-1725. https://doi.org/10.1111/hsc.13777

After a decade of austerity spending cuts and welfare reform, the COVID‐19 pandemic has posed further challenges to the finances, health and wellbeing of working‐age, low‐income people. While advice services have been widely seen (and funded) as an i... Read More about Maximising the health impacts of free advice services in the UK : a mixed methods systematic review.