Influencing policy and practice through social science research evidence (2023)
Book Chapter
Scullion, L., Beck, D., Jones, K., Connors, C., Martin, P., Gibbons, A., & Hynes, C. (2023). Influencing policy and practice through social science research evidence. In C. Moraes, M. McEachern, & D. O'Loughlin (Eds.), Researching Poverty and Austerity: Theoretical Approaches, Methodologies and Policy Applications. Routledge

In this chapter, we contribute to debates about how social science research can influence policy and practice. We draw upon our own experiences as social policy researchers whose work focuses on poverty and social security to provide case studies of... Read More about Influencing policy and practice through social science research evidence.

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.

Sanctions, support & service leavers : social security benefits and transitions from military to civilian life (2019)
Report
Scullion, L., Dwyer, P., Jones, K., Martin, P., & Hynes, C. (2019). Sanctions, support & service leavers : social security benefits and transitions from military to civilian life

Research report presenting findings from the first UK research focusing on the experiences of veterans in the social security system.

Housing works : assessing the impact of housing association employment support (2019)
Report
Wilding, M., Jones, K., Martin, P., & Scullion, L. (2019). Housing works : assessing the impact of housing association employment support

Social housing providers in the UK have a long history of delivering support to their residents beyond housing, including providing employment related assistance. A small but growing area of research investigates the role of employment support outsid... Read More about Housing works : assessing the impact of housing association employment support.

Precarious lives: exploring lived experiences of the private rented sector in Salford (2018)
Report
Scullion, L., Gibbons, A., & Martin, P. (2018). Precarious lives: exploring lived experiences of the private rented sector in Salford

Research report focusing on the experiences of residents living in the private rented sector in Salford.

Ensuring the right to education for Roma children : an Anglo-Swedish perspective (2017)
Journal Article
Harris, N., Ryffe, D., Scullion, L., & Stendahl, S. (2017). Ensuring the right to education for Roma children : an Anglo-Swedish perspective. International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family, 31(2), 230-267. https://doi.org/10.1093/lawfam/ebx001

Access to public education systems has tended to be below normative levels where Roma children are concerned. Various long-standing social, cultural, and institutional factors lie behind the lower levels of engagement and achievement of Roma children... Read More about Ensuring the right to education for Roma children : an Anglo-Swedish perspective.

Migrant Roma in the United Kingdom: population size and experiences of local authorities and partners
Report
Brown, P., Scullion, L., & Martin, P. Migrant Roma in the United Kingdom: population size and experiences of local authorities and partners

The overall objective of this study was to provide an evidence-base with the aim of informing a more comprehensive and accurate
development of measures to support the inclusion of migrant Roma in the UK. There were two specific objectives:
1. To ob... Read More about Migrant Roma in the United Kingdom: population size and experiences of local authorities and partners.

“Should we exit before Brexit?” Hungarian workers’ experiences & future plans in post-referendum Britain
Thesis
Ayodele, I. (in press). “Should we exit before Brexit?” Hungarian workers’ experiences & future plans in post-referendum Britain. (Dissertation). University Of Salford

Growing concerns over the large influx of Central and Eastern European migrant workers to the UK since the enlargement of the EU in 2004 played a major role in the result of the EU Referendum in June 2016. Now, in the era of Brexit, when millions of... Read More about “Should we exit before Brexit?” Hungarian workers’ experiences & future plans in post-referendum Britain.