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Rethinking housing supply and design : Feminist Green New Deal policy paper (2021)
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Gibbons, A. (2021). Rethinking housing supply and design : Feminist Green New Deal policy paper

Housing is fundamental to life, security and wellbeing as well as tackling climate change and working towards a zero-carbon future. It also remains a key site of gender and intersectional inequality, with design that does not accommodate diverse need... Read More about Rethinking housing supply and design : Feminist Green New Deal policy paper.

Should social security reach further? Ineligibility for benefits at the start of COVID-19 (2021)
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start of COVID-19

The benefits system – particularly Universal Credit (UC) – has played a major role in Britain’s COVID-19 response, and it is no surprise that there has been an emphasis on how well it has responded. However, there is a political question about whethe... Read More about Should social security reach further? Ineligibility for benefits at the start of COVID-19.

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.

Non-take-up of benefits at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic (2021)
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Baumberg Geiger, B., Scullion, L., Summers, K., Martin, P., Lawler, C., Edmiston, D., …de Vries, R. (2021). Non-take-up of benefits at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic

The benefits system – particularly Universal Credit (UC) – has played a major role in Britain’s COVID-19 response, and it is no surprise that there has been an emphasis on how well it has responded. Most experts so far have suggested that UC has per... Read More about Non-take-up of benefits at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Navigating pandemic social security : benefits, employment and crisis support during COVID-19 (2021)
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Edmiston, D., Robertshaw, D., Gibbons, A., Ingold, J., Baumberg Geiger, B., Scullion, L., …Young, D. (2021). Navigating pandemic social security : benefits, employment and crisis support during COVID-19

An expanding range of external actors and organisations have come to mediate the relationship between benefit claimants and the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). Reflecting on the important role benefits, crisis and employment support play in t... Read More about Navigating pandemic social security : benefits, employment and crisis support during COVID-19.

Claimants’ experiences of the social security system during the first wave of COVID-19 (2021)
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Summers, K., Scullion, L., Baumberg Geiger, B., Robertshaw, D., Edmiston, D., Gibbons, A., …Ingold, J. (2021). Claimants’ experiences of the social security system during the first wave of COVID-19

COVID-19 arrived in the UK early in March 2020. By 23rd March 2020, the UK experienced the first national lockdown. As businesses and livelihoods stalled, an unprecedented number of applications were made for Universal Credit (UC). Drawing on data fr... Read More about Claimants’ experiences of the social security system during the first wave of COVID-19.