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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.

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.

Urban poverty and the role of UK food aid organisations in enabling segregating and transitioning spaces of food access (2024)
Journal Article
McEachern, M. G., Moraes, C., Scullion, L., & Gibbons, A. (2024). Urban poverty and the role of UK food aid organisations in enabling segregating and transitioning spaces of food access. Urban Studies, https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980241234803

This research examines the role of food aid providers, including their spatial engagement, in seeking to alleviate urban food poverty. Current levels of urban poverty across the UK have resulted in an unprecedented demand for food aid. Yet, urban pov... Read More about Urban poverty and the role of UK food aid organisations in enabling segregating and transitioning spaces of food access.

Urban poverty and the role of UK food aid organisations in enabling segregating and transitioning spaces of food access (2024)
Journal Article
McEachern, M. G., Moraes, C., Scullion, L., & Gibbons, A. (2024). Urban poverty and the role of UK food aid organisations in enabling segregating and transitioning spaces of food access. Urban Studies, 61(11), 2231-2249. https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980241234803

This research examines the role of food aid providers, including their spatial engagement, in seeking to alleviate urban food poverty. Current levels of urban poverty across the UK have resulted in an unprecedented demand for food aid. Yet, urban pov... Read More about Urban poverty and the role of UK food aid organisations in enabling segregating and transitioning spaces of food access.

The Impact of Welfare Conditionality on Experiences of Job Quality (2024)
Journal Article
Jones, K., Wright, S., & Scullion, L. (in press). The Impact of Welfare Conditionality on Experiences of Job Quality. Work, Employment and Society, https://doi.org/10.1177/09500170231219677

This article contributes to emerging debates about how behavioural conditionality within welfare systems influences job quality. Drawing upon analysis of unique data from three waves of qualitative longitudinal interviews with 46 UK social security r... Read More about The Impact of Welfare Conditionality on Experiences of Job Quality.

Refraining from rights and giving in to personalised control: young unemployed peoples’ experiences and perceptions of public and third sector support in the UK and Norway (2023)
Journal Article
Gjersøe, H. M., Jones, K., Leseth, A. B., Scullion, L., & Martin, P. (2023). Refraining from rights and giving in to personalised control: young unemployed peoples’ experiences and perceptions of public and third sector support in the UK and Norway. European Journal of Social Work, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1080/13691457.2023.2212875

In this article, we present an analysis of young unemployed peoples’ perceptions and experiences with public and third sector support in Norway and the UK. Drawing on data generated through qualitative semi-structured interviews, the analysis shows t... Read More about Refraining from rights and giving in to personalised control: young unemployed peoples’ experiences and perceptions of public and third sector support in the UK and Norway.

Accessing and sustaining work after service: the role of active labour market policies (ALMP) and implications for HRM (2022)
Journal Article
Jones, K., Scullion, L., Hynes, C., & Martin, P. (2022). Accessing and sustaining work after service: the role of active labour market policies (ALMP) and implications for HRM. International Journal of Human Resource Management, https://doi.org/10.1080/09585192.2022.2133574

This article considers the extent to which active labour market policies (ALMPs) support the sustained inclusion of veterans in the civilian labour market. Drawing on the first in-depth research into veteran’s interactions with the UK’s public employ... Read More about Accessing and sustaining work after service: the role of active labour market policies (ALMP) and implications for HRM.

Mediating the claim? How ‘local ecosystems of support’ shape the operation and experience of UK social security (2022)
Journal Article

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.

Military veterans and welfare reform : bridging two policy worlds through qualitative longitudinal research (2021)
Journal Article

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.

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

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.

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.