Prof Lisa Scullion l.scullion@salford.ac.uk
Professor
COVID 19: Welfare at a (Social) Distance: Accessing social security and employment support during the COVID-19 crisis and its aftermath
People Involved
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.
Benefits conditionality in the UK: is it common, and is it perceived to be reasonable? (2025)
Journal Article
Programme-level data suggests that increasing numbers of claimants are subject to work-related behavioural requirements in countries like the UK. Likewise, academic qualitative research has suggested that conditionality is pervasive within the benefi... Read More about Benefits conditionality in the UK: is it common, and is it perceived to be reasonable?.
Benefits conditionality in the UK: is it common, and is it perceived to be reasonable? (2024)
Journal Article
Programme-level data suggests that increasing numbers of claimants are subject to work-related behavioural requirements in countries like the UK. Likewise, academic qualitative research has suggested that conditionality is pervasive within the benefi... Read More about Benefits conditionality in the UK: is it common, and is it perceived to be reasonable?.
Welfare attitudes in a crisis: How COVID exceptionalism undermined greater solidarity (2023)
Journal Article
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.