Dr David Young's Outputs (15)

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.

Living policy: reflections of a researcher on two related qualitative longitudinal studies of the experience of UK social security over time (2024)
Presentation / Conference
Young, D. (2024, June). Living policy: reflections of a researcher on two related qualitative longitudinal studies of the experience of UK social security over time. Paper presented at Contemplating Qualitative Longitudinal Research: Temporalities, Theories and Methods, Helsinki, Finland

Temporal aspects of claimant experience can be overlooked within UK social security policy and research. One reason for this is the tendency to focus on one point in time. In recent years, longitudinal research designs have added an important element... Read More about Living policy: reflections of a researcher on two related qualitative longitudinal studies of the experience of UK social security over time.

Benefits assessments and veterans: lessons from the Sanctions, Support and Service Leavers project (2024)
Report
Young, D., Scullion, L., Martin, P., Hynes, C., & Pardoe, J. (2024). Benefits assessments and veterans: lessons from the Sanctions, Support and Service Leavers project. Forces in Mind Trust (FiMT)

Towards a trauma-informed social security system in the UK (2024)
Journal Article
Scullion, L., Curchin, K., Young, D., Martin, P., Hynes, C., & Pardoe, J. (in press). Towards a trauma-informed social security system in the UK. Journal of Social Security Law,

Trauma-informed care (TIC) applies trauma theory to the design of social and health services, to promote client engagement and avoid inadvertently harming clients with trauma histories. Various services across the UK have been increasingly embracing... Read More about Towards a trauma-informed social security system in the UK.

Better Housing Better Health: A qualitative study of energy advice and support in Oxfordshire (2024)
Report
Sherriff, G., & Young, D. (2024). Better Housing Better Health: A qualitative study of energy advice and support in Oxfordshire. Oxfordshire County Council

The Better Housing Better Health (BHBH) service is provided by the National Energy Foundation (NEF) across Oxfordshire and other locations in the south of England. Delivering advice and support to residents to help them stay warm and healthy in their... Read More about Better Housing Better Health: A qualitative study of energy advice and support in Oxfordshire.

Temporality and the meaning of social security money within households (2024)
Book Chapter
Summers, K., & Young, D. (2024). Temporality and the meaning of social security money within households. In F. Bennett, S. Avram, & S. Austen (Eds.), A Research Agenda for Financial Resources within the Household (241-254). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781802204001

The relationship between the temporal aspects of social security policy and intra-household dynamics is under-explored. Temporal aspects of policy, including benefit waiting periods and payment frequency, affect the money management within households... Read More about Temporality and the meaning of social security money within households.

‘Universal Credit from administrative and claimant perspectives’ (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Young, D. (2023, November). ‘Universal Credit from administrative and claimant perspectives’. Paper presented at Automating Universal Credit: a roundtable discussion, University of Edinburgh

Welfare attitudes in a crisis: How COVID exceptionalism undermined greater solidarity (2023)
Journal Article
De Vries, R., Baumberg Geiger, B., Scullion, L., Summers, K., Edmiston, D., Ingold, J., …Young, D. (2023). Welfare attitudes in a crisis: How COVID exceptionalism undermined greater solidarity. Journal of Social Policy, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047279423000466

COVID-19 had the potential to dramatically increase public support for welfare. It was a time of apparent increased solidarity, of apparently deserving claimants, and of increasingly widespread exposure to the benefits system. However, there are also... Read More about Welfare attitudes in a crisis: How COVID exceptionalism undermined greater solidarity.

Towards A Trauma-informed Social Security System (2023)
Report
Scullion, L., Young, D., Martin, P., Hynes, C., Pardoe, J., & Curchin, K. (2023). Towards A Trauma-informed Social Security System. Forces in Mind Trust

Welfare at a (social) distance : accessing social security and employment support during the Covid-19 and its aftermath (2022)
Book Chapter
Robertshaw, D., Summers, K., Scullion, L., Edmiston, D., Baumberg Geiger, B., Gibbons, A., …Young, D. (2022). Welfare at a (social) distance : accessing social security and employment support during the Covid-19 and its aftermath. In K. Garthwaite, R. Patrick, M. Power, A. Tarrant, & R. Warnock (Eds.), COVID-19 collaborations : researching poverty and low-income family life during the pandemic (30-43). Policy Press. https://doi.org/10.51952/9781447364504.ch002

This chapter reflects on both our key findings and our experiences of undertaking the research during the pandemic. First, we examine the experiences of claimants, focusing specifically on Universal Credit (UC) and those who were engaging with the be... Read More about Welfare at a (social) distance : accessing social security and employment support during the Covid-19 and its aftermath.

Social security during Covid-19: The experiences of military veterans (2022)
Book Chapter
Scullion, L., Martin, P., Hynes, C., & Young, D. (2022). Social security during Covid-19: The experiences of military veterans. In K. Garthwaite, R. Patrick, M. Power, A. Tarrant, & R. Warnock (Eds.), Covid Realities : Researching Poverty and Low-Income Family Life during the Pandemic (149-164). Bristol: Policy Press. https://doi.org/10.51952/9781447364504

Research published prior to Covid-19 has illustrated some of the difficulties that veterans can experience within the benefits. Drawing upon unique insights from the UK’s first substantive qualitative research focusing on veterans within the benefits... Read More about Social security during Covid-19: The experiences of military veterans.

Maximising the health impacts of free advice services in the UK : a mixed methods systematic review (2022)
Journal Article
Young, D., & Bates, G. (2022). Maximising the health impacts of free advice services in the UK : a mixed methods systematic review. Health and Social Care in the Community, 30(5), 1713-1725. https://doi.org/10.1111/hsc.13777

After a decade of austerity spending cuts and welfare reform, the COVID‐19 pandemic has posed further challenges to the finances, health and wellbeing of working‐age, low‐income people. While advice services have been widely seen (and funded) as an i... Read More about Maximising the health impacts of free advice services in the UK : a mixed methods systematic review.

Income insecurity and the relational coping strategies of low-income households in the UK (2022)
Journal Article
Young, D. (2022). Income insecurity and the relational coping strategies of low-income households in the UK. Journal of Social Policy, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1017/S004727942200006X

Changes in the labour market, high rates of working age poverty, major welfare reforms and more recently the Covid-19 pandemic have drawn renewed attention to income security. Existing research has identified the important role of relational support... Read More about Income insecurity and the relational coping strategies of low-income households in the UK.

Mediating the claim? How ‘local ecosystems of support’ shape the operation and experience of UK social security (2022)
Journal Article
Edmiston, D., Robertshaw, D., Young, D., Ingold, J., Gibbons, A., Summers, K., …de Vries, R. (2022). Mediating the claim? How ‘local ecosystems of support’ shape the operation and experience of UK social security. Social Policy and Administration, 56(5), 775-790. https://doi.org/10.1111/spol.12803

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.

The importance of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) Armed Forces Champions
Report
Scullion, L., Pardoe, J., Martin, P., Young, D., & Hynes, C. (2024). The importance of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) Armed Forces Champions. DWP

Introduction In 2010, as part of its commitment to the Armed Forces Covenant the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) introduced the role of dedicated Armed Forces Champion (AFC), an initiative that was augmented in 2021. The purpose of this briefi... Read More about The importance of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) Armed Forces Champions.