Mickey Conn

Profile

Thesis supervisors

• Professor Kevin Farnsworth
• Professor Neil Lunt

Research topic

The relationship between in-work benefits and business in the UK.

Research interests

Welfare benefits, low pay, corporate welfare, business influence on social policy.

Biography

I am a social researcher working in the civil service, where I manage research projects, alongside completing my PhD in Social Policy.

I have previously worked in the substance misuse sector, and part of my role involved assisting clients navigate the benefit system.  This piqued my interest in the topic, and having read Professor Kevin Farnsworth's work on corporate welfare, I became interested in the relationship between the two.

I also hold a Masters degree in Politics and an MRes in Social Policy, and have taught seminars for the former Department of Social Policy, the University's Centre for Lifelong Learning, and the Realising Opportunities programme.

Publications

•    “Review: Poverty and Dependency - America, 1950s to the Present” (2021), Social Policy and Administration, 55:2.
•    “New ideas for funding universities” (2011), Metis, 1:2.