Publications: Conferences & panels

Three members of the WelCond research team presented their work at the FISS annual conference in Sigtuna, Sweden, on 10 June 2019. The title of Dr Katy Jones, Prof Lisa Scullion and Dr Sharon Wright’s paper was Just about managing’? Exploring the experiences of welfare users at the margins of the UK labour market. Programme details

Our Director Professor Peter Dwyer recorded a video and slides titled ‘Welfare conditionality: some issues and concerns for families and children’ which were presented at the ‘Picking up the pieces : the fallout of welfare reform’ forum on 20 October 2017 in Melbourne, Australia.

WelCond team member Dr Jenny McNeill presented a paper at the Australian Social Policy Conference held on 25-27 September 2017. View her presentation slides

WelCond team member Katy Jones presented a paper titled: ‘No strings attached? An exploration of employment support services offered by third sector homelessness organisations’ at the Feantsa European homelessness organisation’s annual conference. This year’s conference, held in Barcelona on 22 September, was themed on the changing profiles of homelessness and implications for services. View Katy’s presentation slides

WelCond team member Dr Jenny McNeill presented a paper to the 19th International Conference on Disability Studies held in Vancouver, Canada, on 7-8 August 2017. View her slide presentation.

WelCond team members held a symposium on welfare conditionality at the Social Policy Association annual conference on 11 July 2017. The presentations are detailed here. Read More

Our Director, Professor Peter Dwyer, addressed the School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol, on 22 March  2017. View his presentation

Our highly successful event was held on 29 March 2017. You can view all the presentation slides below.

Citizenship, conditionality, and welfare chauvinism: EEA migrants in the UK
Professor Peter Dwyer, University of York, and Dr Lisa Scullion, University of Salford Read More

Our project PhD students presented their research over two days at an event in York. Listed below are the presentations with links to the students’ slides.

Can you ‘make’ families change their behaviour?
Emily Ball, University of Sheffield

Disabled person and welfare claimant: mutual identity or dichotomy of difference?
Joanne Brown, University of Glasgow Read More

Our Director, Professor Peter Dwyer, addressed a meeting at the Huddersfield Mission on 1 March 2017. Read his presentation slides.