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.