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
July 6, 2017 Leave a Comment
In this guest blog, photojournalist Les Monaghan charts the development of his show exploring the realities of life for families in his locality
Almost a year ago, I became agitated by an online news article. Over a million people in the UK were living in destitution. Other people too were agitated by this same article. Spending an hour or so with the online trolls, and their wearied opponents, in the Comment is Free section wasn’t healthy. But it made me realise that no matter how earnest, how scrupulously researched a charity’s report, or campaigning journalist’s article, there are swathes of the UK that refuse to believe ‘news’ they don’t agree with. Read More
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.
July 5, 2017 Leave a Comment
An early bird discount applies to bookings made before 7 February 2018. Read More
July 5, 2017 Leave a Comment
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.
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
June 26, 2017 Leave a Comment
Lisa Scullion reports on a groundbreaking research project linked to our own Welfare Conditionality Project
Each year about 17,000 men and women leave the British Armed Forces and enter civilian life. There is a range of support available for Armed Forces Service leavers, including the Career Transition Partnership (CTP), the Ministry of Defence (MoD) official transition service, which provides advice and guidance, vocational training, and a range of employer brokerage activities.
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.
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.
