All Outputs (4)

Military veterans and welfare reform : bridging two policy worlds through qualitative longitudinal research (2021)
Journal Article
Scullion, L., Jones, K., Dwyer, P., Hynes, C., & Martin, P. (2021). Military veterans and welfare reform : bridging two policy worlds through qualitative longitudinal research. Social Policy and Society, 20(4), 670-683. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1474746421000166

In recent years, there has been an increasing focus in the UK on the support provided to those who have served in the Armed Forces, with the publication of the Armed Forces Covenant (2011), the ten year Strategy for our Veterans (2018) and the creati... Read More about Military veterans and welfare reform : bridging two policy worlds through qualitative longitudinal research.

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.

The impact of in-Service physical injury or illness on the mental health of military veterans (2021)
Journal Article
Hynes, C., Scullion, L., Lawler, C., Steel, R., & Boland, P. (2021). The impact of in-Service physical injury or illness on the mental health of military veterans. BMJ Military Health, https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjmilitary-2020-001759

Background Each year approximately 2000 UK service personnel are medically discharged with physical and/or psychological injury or illness. While there is much research on both psychological injury and physical injury, the challenges of transition... Read More about The impact of in-Service physical injury or illness on the mental health of military veterans.

Examining veterans’ interactions with the UK social security system through a trauma-informed lens (2021)
Journal Article
Scullion, L., & Curchin, K. (2021). Examining veterans’ interactions with the UK social security system through a trauma-informed lens. Journal of Social Policy, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047279420000719

This paper uses the principles of trauma-informed care – safety, collaboration, choice, trustworthiness, and respect – to reflect on the quality of veterans’ treatment within the UK social security system. Drawing upon new data from qualitative longi... Read More about Examining veterans’ interactions with the UK social security system through a trauma-informed lens.