Major @ESRC project researching the benefits system & employment support during COVID-19 & its aftermath @SalfordUni @UniKent @UniversityLeeds @LSEnews @deakin
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9 Dec 2021
The last 18 months have been characterised by profound change & uncertainty for those worst affected by COVID-19. Today, we're launching a research comic that shares people's first-hand experience of claiming benefits during the pandemic: bit.ly/31tcJFn
Pls RT 🙏📢🙏
ALT Front cover of research comic entitled "social security during COVID-19". Two hands can be seen, with one signing a universal credit claimant commitment through the screen of a laptop.
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5 Oct 2023
New paper from our project: ‘Welfare attitudes in a crisis: How COVID exceptionalism undermined greater solidarity’ in @JSP_Journal cambridge.org/core/journals/…
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Welfare at a Social Distance retweeted
11 Sep 2023
So the @DistantWelfare @kateesummers team used new data to unpack this in an @IPPR article and found that a clear majority of Britons (61%) think that benefit payments are insufficient to alleviate even basic subsistence poverty:
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Welfare at a Social Distance retweeted
8 Feb 2023
📢📢We are launching 📢📢
*Social Security Soundings* today. It's a website that features 18 women discussing the question "What is social security for?"
sssoundings.org/
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Welfare at a Social Distance retweeted
9 Jan 2023
Should we talk about 'social security' instead of 'welfare'? Some new evidence inequalitiesblog.wordpress.c…
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Yes coproduced research but need to remove barriers for people eg with #LongCovid in receipt of #Benefits U.K. #DWP as there are complex rules processes that are #EnergyDrainAdmin , not fit for purpose, risk to income #ESA @Know_HG @DistantWelfare @BeresfordPeter
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Welfare at a Social Distance retweeted
26 Oct 2022
"People often think that benefit levels are related to meeting some level of minimum need, but this is not the case. The last, and only, official assessment of benefits adequacy was undertaken in the 1960s, and it had little effect on subsequent policy."
bit.ly/3N5lRTV
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Welfare at a Social Distance retweeted
25 Oct 2022
With the political landscape changing at a dizzying speed, @daniel_edmiston and I have tried to give a slightly wider view on benefit uprating and the need to recentre focus on adequacy and meeting need.
@ConversationUK
theconversation.com/raising-…
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Welfare at a Social Distance retweeted
1 Sep 2022
Congratulations to @lisa_scullion and the @DistantWelfare team, who have been shortlisted in this year's @timeshighered awards! ⭐ #THEAwards
Read more ⬇️
salford.ac.uk/news/salford-s…
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Welfare at a Social Distance retweeted
25 Jul 2022
For a detailed account of the barriers that people with learning disabilities face in the benefits system, read @NeilCarpenter14 's new book Benefits on Trial - a short summary at citizen-network.org/library/… and you can find the book at citizen-network.org/store/be…
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22 Jul 2022
Are you interested in analysing new survey data on benefits claimants 2020-2022?
Then look at the new Welfare at a (Social) Distance data deposit - more info at jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa-ji…
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Welfare at a Social Distance retweeted
13 Jun 2022
Our @DistantWelfare comic was turned into a #LSEFestival short 🎬📽️
Focusing on lessons we can take forward from social security claimants during the pandemic - inc. - adequacy matters!
(with guest voiceovers from @daniel_edmiston & @lisa_scullion 😮)
youtube.com/watch?v=mLCWpvLN…
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20 Apr 2022
Digital exclusion is creating a ‘two-tier’ system for people claiming benefits bigissue.com/news/social-jus…
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Welfare at a Social Distance retweeted
10 Mar 2022
4)But single parents do not feel they are provided with tailored support that takes account of the unique combination of challenges facing them. Data from @DistantWelfare project shows single parent benefit recipients report more negative experiences than others on such issues.
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11 Mar 2022
🧵Little thread on our new paper just out in @spaajournal 🧵
Based on in-depth qualitative fieldwork across four areas, this paper examines what bearing local ecosystems of support have on adequacy, access & universality in the UK social security system: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
ALT A networked picture of different people, things and services within a local area
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11 Mar 2022
By attending to wider ecosystems of support, this paper highlights the considerable numbers (particularly BAME local residents and those with @NRPFNetwork) seeking access to financial assistance but currently excluded from, or on the periphery of, the benefits system.
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11 Mar 2022
We argue that those *worst* served by existing provision need to be more effectively & systematically integrated into our examination of social security policy if we are to fully understand its diverse (dis)functions, the public agendas it serves & the citizen-subjects it fails.
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