Plenary speakers announced for international conference
September 27, 2017 Leave a Comment
Two top academics are to guest at the Welfare Conditionality Project’s international conference next year. Read More
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Project gives evidence to National Assembly for Wales
September 21, 2017 Leave a Comment
The Welfare Conditionality Project gave evidence to a session of the National Assembly for Wales’ Equality, Local Government and Communities committee, held in Cardiff. The committee is inquiring into ‘Poverty in Wales: making the economy work for people on low incomes’, and wanted to hear more about welfare benefits, sanctions and Universal Credit. The project’s Dr Lisa Scullion from the University of Salford, and Dr Sharon Wright, from the University of Glasgow, gave evidence in person. Watch the televised session. Our written evidence was also submitted.
Guest blog: demonising disabled people – public behaviour and attitudes during welfare reform
July 12, 2017 Leave a Comment
In our latest guest opinion, independent researcher Mo Stewart identifies the ease with which public behaviour can be manipulated and changed by government when aided by the press. She argues that although it is welfare service users’ behaviour that government seeks to change, public opinion and behaviour has also changed when influenced by political rhetoric. Read more
Guest blog: the Relative Poverty project
July 6, 2017 Leave a Comment
Photojournalist Les Monaghan has staged a photography show exploring the realities of life for families in his locality. In this guest blog he charts the development of his idea. It began with a news article saying over a million people in the UK were living in destitution. Read his blog
Announcing a major international conference on welfare conditionality, 26-28 June 2018, University of York, UK
July 5, 2017 Leave a Comment
An international conference at the University of York, UK, aims to bring together people working on welfare conditionality from across the globe. Delegates will have the opportunity to discuss the final findings from the ESRC-funded Welfare conditionality: sanctions, support and behaviour change project and present and debate their own research on welfare conditionality and allied debates.
Registration fees
July 5, 2017 Leave a Comment
An early bird discount applies to bookings made before 7 February 2018. Read More
WelCond newsletter out now
June 28, 2017 Leave a Comment
Our videos on EU migrants and Brexit, guest blogs, a prestigious prizewinner, briefing on Armed Forces Service leavers, and three journal papers. It’s all in our latest WelCond newsletter, out now. Sign up now at the bottom of this page for your own email copy.
Being homeless twice: the migrant experience of homelessness
June 28, 2017 Leave a Comment
A new blog by WelCond PhD student Regina Serpa outlines her research into the situation of homeless migrants in the UK and US. The Heriot-Watt University student was awarded the Housing Studies Association’s Valerie Karn prize for early career researchers this year for her work on this topic. Read her blog
Briefing paper: social security benefits, welfare conditionality and Armed Forces Service leavers
June 26, 2017 Leave a Comment
This briefing paper forms the background to a new project funded by the Forces in Mind Trust (FiMT) focusing on the experiences of Service leavers and their families in receipt of mainstream conditional social security benefits. The use of conditional welfare arrangements is now firmly embedded within social security benefit receipt and welfare rights today come with specified responsibilities.
No specific government welfare-to-work programme exists for Armed Forces Service leavers; however, as part of the Armed Forces Covenant specific exemptions and easements are made in relation to Service leavers and their families who are seeking to claim social security benefits. Despite this, little is currently known of how Service leavers experience moving through the mainstream benefit system.
New videos highlight problems faced by EU migrants living in UK
June 22, 2017 Leave a Comment
Two new videos from our project explain issues around Brexit and the situation of European migrants in the UK.
‘Brexit: welfare rights and EU migrants programme highlights‘ summarises our highly successful event with the EU Rights Project earlier this year. Our speakers analysed the referendum vote, summarised the issues and problems for EU migrants accessing the UK welfare system, and considered the situation of EU migrants who become homeless. See also our blog on this event.
‘European migrants and UK welfare – a constellation of conditionality‘ presents emerging findings from our project’s research into the situation of EU migrants accessing the welfare system and the difficulties they face.
See all of our project’s videos here.
