Welfare, Employment and Conditionality
Our core focus is on issues around social security, poverty and social citizenship, topics that have been a core focus of our work since our foundation in the 1960s.
We have expertise in a wide range of topics, key specialisms including poverty and inequality, welfare conditionality, welfare reform, public attitudes to welfare and lived experiences of welfare. Our work adopts both national and cross-national perspectives and spans a wide range of methodological approaches.
The £2 million ESRC-funded Welfare Conditionality: Sanctions Support and Behaviour Change (WelCond) research programme, has been the largest project, but a variety of funders have supported our work, including the Department for Work and Pensions; Nuffield Foundation, Forces in Mind Trust, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, and Shelter.
Theme lead
Project spotlights
- Changing realities
- Cost of living crisis: fuel poverty
- Reducing food insecurity
- COVID-19, families and poverty
- Welfare reform and larger families
- Universal credit in Northern Ireland
- Welfare Conditionality Project
Research degrees
Push the boundaries of knowledge in our supportive and stimulating environment.