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International conference – presentations

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Here you will find all of the presentations from our conference that the authors have given permission for us to publish. They are listed alphabetically by author.

For details of the Welfare Conditionality Project final findings report, presented on the first day of the conference, see our findings page.

Plenary speakers

Professor Jane Millar Women, work and welfare: conditionality and choice

Professor Rik Van Berkel From policy to practice: a street level perspective of welfare-to-work

Other presentations

Abbas, J & Chrisp, J Conditionality at a cross roads: public support for ‘in-work conditionality’ and universal basic income

Aguilar-Hendrickson, M & Arriba-Gonzalez de Durana, A Changing forms of conditionality in Spanish regional minimum income schemes 1989–2017

Ahluwalia, M & Tomlinson, J Benefits sanctions in the UK: a practical view

Andersen, K The gendered implications of Universal Credit: an investigation into mothers’ experiences and views of conditionality

Arts, J Performances for upward mobility: how Dutch workfare programmes function as temporal spaces of imagination

Ball, E Exploring the behavioural outcomes of family-based intensive interventions

Batty, S Social Insecurity? Welfare rights and welfare reform

Bierbaum, M Lost Agency? Lived experiences of social assistance recipients in an activating welfare state

Bierbaum, B Professional judgements at work? A factorial survey experiment on activation workers’ decision-making

Borg, I The everyday geography of employment progression for families on Universal Credit

Bugge, H Welfare conditionality and democratic participation: a study of democratic participation in Norway’s residual safety net

Casey, S Resistance at the street-level in Australian Employment Services: the implications for social policy

Chimes, J, Jordan, S & Lynch, D A human rights-based response to the impacts of welfare conditionality

Full paper

Connolly, A ‘Or else it’s not a crisis…’ – Trussell Trust Food Bank Use, Crisis and Welfare Conditionality

Cooper, M The development of conditionality in the inter-war years: what lessons for today?

Curchin, K The ethical limits of the new conditionality: learning from childhood immunisation Incentives

D’Emilione, M & Vivaldi, P V Conditionality without services: the paradox of the Italian welfare

Dermine, E Limitations to welfare to work: the prohibition of forced labour and the right to freely chosen work

Doyle, K The Irish experience of Welfare Conditionality: The institutional isomorphism of problematic activation policies

Dwyer, P, Jones, K, Scullion, L & Stewart, A B R Welfare conditionality and mental health

Dwyer, P From welfare to work? Exploring the effectiveness of welfare conditionality

Edmiston, D & Donoghue, M Gritty citizens? Exploring the logic and limits of resilience in social policy during times of socio-material insecurity

Full paper

Eleveld, A Welfare-to-work and the construction of a workers’ identity

Finn, P Activating jobseekers: strategies of negotiation and resistance to work-related conditionality and sanctions in Ireland

Fitzpatrick, S Competing visions: security of tenure and the welfarisation of English social housing

Fowkes, L Giving them purpose: Working for the Dole in remote Australia

Geiger, B B Is benefits conditionality for disabled people ‘fair’? An empirical analysis

Gjersøe, H M, Leseth, A B & Vilhena, S “I believe that mandatory activation is a tool to help people further” – front line workers’ experiences with mandatory activation in Norway

Granaglia, E Activation and recent trends in minimum income policies in EU: hard times for social justice?

Hirano, H Welfare conditionality and citizenship: the case of Japan

Jones, K Older jobseekers’ experiences of work and welfare

Manzi, T Epistemological insecurity in the conditional welfare state: neoliberal social policy, housing associations and the practice of housing management

Martin, Paz M, De Castro Pericacho, C, Calderon Gomez, D & Revilla Castro D C Welfare citizenship in the shadow of the Recession in Spain: the case of households in hardship

Meers, J The palliative effects of discretion in the welfare reform agenda: a case study of Discretionary Housing Payments

Full paper

Murphy, M The politics of ‘changing expectations’: lone parents and conditionality in Ireland

Patrick, R Experts by experience on conditionality, and looking at solutions to poverty and insecurity in the UK

Paz-Fuchs, A Workfare’s persistent philosophical and legal issues

Povey, L Helping or hindering? Welfare conditionality and women who have been in conflict with the law

Reininger, T Family trajectories in conditional cash transfer programs: the case of Chile’s Ethical Family Wage program

Sadeghi, T & Inge Terum, L ‘Upmarketing’ and the rational fictions of the ‘bedroom tax’

Samzelius, T Who’s responsible for homeless families? – Conditionality, social assistance and access to housing for single mothers in Sweden

Scullion, L, Dwyer, P, Jones, K, Martin, P & Hynes, C Honouring the Armed Forces Covenant? Veterans’ experiences in the UK social security system

Simpson, M Conditionality and the ‘right to welfare’: the Marshallian citizenship ideal in the active welfare state

Simpson, M Less conditionality, more dignity? An emerging Scottish approach to welfare-to-work

Stewart, A B R The universal acceptance of conditionality?

Studer, M Welfare-to-work practices: a threat to human rights, Swiss perspective

Taulbut, M Job Seeker’s Allowance (JSA) benefit sanctions and labour market outcomes in Britain, 2001–2014

Tennant, D Place-based welfare conditionality in Australia: experiences from the regional city of Shepparton

Full paper

Trlifajova, L Conditionality as a distinction of “good” citizenship

Van de Aa, P & De Vries, C The pros and cons of ‘quid pro quo’. Client impact of obligatory participation in voluntary work as variety of conditional welfare

Full paper

Vonk, G The rise of the repressive welfare state: do courts make a difference?

Watts, B, Fitzpatrick, S & Johnsen, S Controlling homeless people? Power, interventionism and legitimacy

Webster D The great British benefit sanctions drive 2010-16 in historical perspective

Welsh, A The application of the minimum earnings threshold in the UK: are EU nationals economically active enough for benefits?

Williams, E Welfare conditionality and mental health: the relationship between benefit sanctions and antidepressant prescribing in England

Alexandra Barrantes says:

July 18, 2018 at 12:59 pm

Great resources on linking welfare sanction and conditionally and key social policy considerations with human rights principles (including dignity, non-discrimination). These considerations have a huge impact in narratives around poverty and vulnerability, and should be closely looked at by policy decision-makers and street-level bureaucrats.

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You also have an exact and clear idea of how all this affects people who are actually caught up in it. Unfortunately, the people who are responsible for these policies and decisions have never had to deal with it so there is no understanding and no empathy. We are losing our humanity in today's society.
Jeanette Smith posted this comment on Bedroom tax, benefit cuts and sanctions – the fear factor and the cumulative effects

Why would people then bother to make a home and spend money on it? We have to get away from this mindset that has now taken hold that Social Housing.....hate that term, is just temporary to suit your immediate needs. People should not have to up sticks all the time because a child gets older etc. When the old system was in place ie older people with larger homes than they needed they were offered incentives to downsize. In the 90's more Older peoples accommodation was built. Bungalows, Sheltered Housing etc. People were given help with removal costs. This has all changed. To make someone move from a home they have been in for years is cruel if it is not voluntary. I have been in my home since it was built. My daughter moved out as she should when grown up to make her own home. So after 23 years with roots well and truly down, should I be made to move? I have my granddaughter to stay. My daughter's room is now for her and was also an office when I worked from home. I could not fit my home into a small 1 bedroom flat. I do not want people living above me. This idea that if you live in Social Housing it is just accommodation but if you own it is your home is totally wrong. My parents moved willingly into Sheltered Housing but the change affected them drastically. My dad became stressed and ill and died a year later and my mother never settled and died a few years later. This was because they uprooted themselves and left their home and all the memories and familiar surroundings. Unfortunately like most issues these days, the humanity is being taken out of it.
Jeanette Smith posted this comment on The fear factor - Bedroom Tax and benefit cuts

Great resources on linking welfare sanction and conditionally and key social policy considerations with human rights principles (including dignity, non-discrimination). These considerations have a huge impact in narratives around poverty and vulnerability, and should be closely looked at by policy decision-makers and street-level bureaucrats.
Alexandra Barrantes posted this comment on International conference - presentations

Ok. I don’t agree with the bedroom tax but I do feel it would be a better option if housing rules were changed. For example why do they wait until kids are over 10 until giving families two bedrooms? Then I also think housing should be fit for purpose so I believe when they move someone from a one bedroom to a 2 or 3 it should be with the understanding only until the children grow up and leave home then they should have their Tennancy moved back to something more suitable again like a one bedroom.
Tabatha Gracie posted this comment on The fear factor - Bedroom Tax and benefit cuts

A fine well written and clear example of what is broken in our welfare system. They are asking for submission for the next select committee meeting on welfare and I would submit this post if it were my choice. It is a vicious cycle for some who have no chance of finding work however hard they might try. It is the employers who ultimately make the decision if employees are fit and ready to work, not the DWP. Having a budget of £2 per day for food , job searching activities, keeping your appearance and strength up, and having to jump through hoops and tick boxes on all those strength zapping, soul destroying schemes courses and programs that do nothing but heap yet even more pressure and stress. The affects of stress on both mental and physical health are well documented and nothing can be more stressful than not knowing week in, week out, that your hand to mouth existence is constantly at risk. Sanctions are death sentences for some, no getting away from that fact, those charged with administrating the regime should hang their heads in shame, it is those who should make the stand to bring about change. Or do they deceive themselves into believing long time shirker Jim who they sanctioned last month and who has not been seen again at the local JCP, Is now enjoying the fruits of his labor thanks to the Works Coaches helpful push they so desperately needed. So clearly sanctions work and a good done job done by me, high five everyone.
paul posted this comment on Bedroom tax, benefit cuts and sanctions – the fear factor and the cumulative effects

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