All Outputs (5)

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 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