All Outputs (125)

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 life

Research 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 support

Social 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

Precarious lives: exploring lived experiences of the private rented sector in Salford (2018)
Report
Scullion, L., Gibbons, A., & Martin, P. (2018). Precarious lives: exploring lived experiences of the private rented sector in Salford

Research report focusing on the experiences of residents living in the private rented sector in Salford.

'We don’t rely on benefits' : challenging mainstream narratives towards Roma migrants in the UK (2017)
Book Chapter

One of the prevailing and persistent political and public discourses surrounding immigration suggests that easy access to welfare benefits and public services is a major reason why the UK is a destination of choice for migrants (Page 2009; Anderson 2... Read More about 'We don’t rely on benefits' : challenging mainstream narratives towards Roma migrants in the UK.

Ensuring the right to education for Roma children : an Anglo-Swedish perspective (2017)
Journal Article
Harris, N., Ryffe, D., Scullion, L., & Stendahl, S. (2017). Ensuring the right to education for Roma children : an Anglo-Swedish perspective. International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family, 31(2), 230-267. https://doi.org/10.1093/lawfam/ebx001

Access to public education systems has tended to be below normative levels where Roma children are concerned. Various long-standing social, cultural, and institutional factors lie behind the lower levels of engagement and achievement of Roma children... Read More about Ensuring the right to education for Roma children : an Anglo-Swedish perspective.

Welfare conditionality and disabled people in the UK: claimants' perspectives (2017)
Journal Article

In order to fully understand the impact of the extension of conditionality in the UK to include people with impairments, it is vital to give voice to those with direct experience of the welfare system. The case studies that follow are taken from inte... Read More about Welfare conditionality and disabled people in the UK: claimants' perspectives.

Understanding the social exclusion of Roma (2016)
Book Chapter

Roma are recognised as one of the European Union’s (EU’s) largest minority ethnic groups, with estimates that there are more than 10 million Roma residing across the EU (Council of Europe, CoE, 2011; European Commission, EC, 2012). Despite a commitme... Read More about Understanding the social exclusion of Roma.

Destination integration : Third Country Nationals in the north of England (summary report) (2015)
Report
Ahmed, A., Brown, P., Duda-Mikulin, E., Martin, P., & Scullion, L. (2015). Destination integration : Third Country Nationals in the north of England (summary report)

Integration Up North research is part of a wider project led by Migration Yorkshire (the regional migration partnership for Yorkshire and the Humber region), which aims to gain a better understanding of Third Country Nationals' (TCN) integration expe... Read More about Destination integration : Third Country Nationals in the north of England (summary report).

Destination integration : Third country nationals in the north of England [final report] (2015)
Report
Ahmed, A., Brown, P., Duda-Mikulin, E., Martin, P., & Scullion, L. (2015). Destination integration : Third country nationals in the north of England [final report]

Integration Up North research is part of a wider project led by Migration Yorkshire (the regional migration partnership for Yorkshire and the Humber region), which aims to gain a better understanding of Third Country Nationals' (TCN) integration expe... Read More about Destination integration : Third country nationals in the north of England [final report].

Rights, responsibilities and redress? Research on policy and practice for Roma inclusion in ten Member States (2015)
Report
Brown, P., Dwyer, P., Martin, P., Scullion, L., & Turley, H. (2015). Rights, responsibilities and redress? Research on policy and practice for Roma inclusion in ten Member States

Roma MATRIX (Mutual Action Targeting Racism,
Intolerance and Xenophobia) was a two year
project (2013-2015) co-funded by the European
Union’s Fundamental Rights and Citizenship
Programme. The project involved ten European
Member States (Bulgaria... Read More about Rights, responsibilities and redress? Research on policy and practice for Roma inclusion in ten Member States.

Changing homelessness services : revanchism, ‘professionalisation’ and resistance (2014)
Journal Article
Scullion, L., Somerville, P., Brown, P., & Morris, G. (2015). Changing homelessness services : revanchism, ‘professionalisation’ and resistance. Health and Social Care in the Community, 23(4), 419-427. https://doi.org/10.1111/hsc.12159

This paper argues that the increasing international salience of homelessness can be partially explained by reference to the revanchist thesis (involving processes of coerced exclusion and abjection), but the situation on the ground is more complex. I... Read More about Changing homelessness services : revanchism, ‘professionalisation’ and resistance.

Migrant Roma in the United Kingdom and the need to estimate population size (2014)
Journal Article
Brown, P., Martin, P., & Scullion, L. (2014). Migrant Roma in the United Kingdom and the need to estimate population size. People, Place and Policy, 8(1), 19-33. https://doi.org/10.3351/ppp.0008.0001.0003

Within the political framework of the European Union (EU), there has been long standing recognition that the on-going exclusion of Roma represents a key challenge for human rights, justice and social inclusion agendas. By introducing a requirement fo... Read More about Migrant Roma in the United Kingdom and the need to estimate population size.

Empty homes : the case for changing direction and delivering differently (2014)
Presentation / Conference
McCourt, A., Brown, P., Scullion, L., & Griffiths, M. (2014, April). Empty homes : the case for changing direction and delivering differently. Presented at Housing Studies Association Annual Conference, York

Gypsy, Traveller and Travelling Showpeople accommodation assessment : North Warwickshire and Nuneaton and Bedworth : Final report (2013)
Report
Scullion, L., Wilson Brown, J., & Brown, P. (2013). Gypsy, Traveller and Travelling Showpeople accommodation assessment : North Warwickshire and Nuneaton and Bedworth : Final report

In November 2012 Nuneaton and Bedworth and North Warwickshire Councils commissioned the Salford Housing & Urban Studies Unit (SHUSU) at the University of Salford to produce an updated Gypsy, Traveller and Travelling Showpeople Accommodation Assessmen... Read More about Gypsy, Traveller and Travelling Showpeople accommodation assessment : North Warwickshire and Nuneaton and Bedworth : Final report.