In case you missed it 📣 In June we launched a new research project, The State of Poverty. In a new blog, CPP's @thomasrochow.bsky.social shares more about the project, which is exploring how policy siloes shape experiences of poverty in Scotland. Read 🔗 www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/...

Very excited that a paper @clemmiehilloconnor.bsky.social & I have written has been accepted by Policy & Politics journal. "Lived experience as evidence in anti-poverty policymaking: a governance-driven perspective" hopefully we can share e-prints later this month. Lots of work & we're very happy!

Amazing presentation by @sionedps.bsky.social at #PPPconf2025 her research explores the power of effective devolution at supporting young jobseekers in Wales and Scotland

Afternoon is go and we have my colleague @thomasrochow.bsky.social presenting on a new @therobertsontrust.bsky.social funded project on the state of poverty with @profnicolamcewen.bsky.social and colleagues not on here

📘Thrilled to see this book published! In Chapter 6, with @margaleon.bsky.social & @thomasrochow.bsky.social, we explore how families navigate precarity in Spain, based on seven focus groups. Despite challenges, participants show resilience and highlight the need for policy reform. 🔗 fuab.cc/OA-CH6/

Fascinating presentation by @hlrandolph.bsky.social on the modelling The Scottish Child Payment @easp-spa-2025.bsky.social

@drcmacrae.bsky.social presenting the State of Poverty project @easp-spa-2025.bsky.social 😄

New post, ***The PIP cuts and public opinion*** -> Exempting current claimants will avoid the worst controversies - but there's a chance of more resistance as the cuts are implemented inequalities.substack.com/p/the-pip-cu...

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🚨 NEW: Opportunities for the poorest young people in London far outstrip the rest of England, we have found. Our new Opportunity Index reveals how the area young people grow up in shapes their life chances, with huge differences between constituencies across the country 🧵⬇️

In Britain, the fast-rising minimum wage is catching up with the bottom rungs of white-collar work. In fact, it appears that a rising number of people who earn annual salaries & don't work in low-paid sectors are now being paid below the legal minimum... www.ft.com/content/5f69...

Against all evidence, societies with more income inequality make young people believe they have more chances to climb the social ladder. www.science.org/doi/full/10....

Incredibly depressing day. I've spent my entire life being told by British governments how dreadful immigration is. New Labour did it. The Coalition. The Brexiters. Now Starmer. All of them accusing the ones who came before them of failing to clamp down. The same old vacant mean-spirited bollocks.

A friend is putting on conversations event in Glasgow on 14th of May as part of Mental Health Awareness Week - a great opportunity to get to know someone you know well, more deeply. Sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/that-conve...

NEW insights 📝 Prof Charlotte Pearson and Prof Nicholas Watson @uofgussp.bsky.social share their expertise into the impact of the proposed withdrawal of Employment Support Allowance (ESA) on young disabled people in the UK. Read 🔗 www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/...

NEW ARTICLE ALERT! Ken Roberts: Bleak prospects: youth transitions in twenty-first century Britain www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

We’re hiring! 📣 Join our team as a Research Associate. We welcome applications from early career researchers with backgrounds in all aspects of economics, including economic policy, economic geography, fiscal policy and economic analysis. ❗Deadline 23 April 2025 www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research...

@nao.org.uk report finds work coach shortages are leading DWP to reduce level of support for UC claimants This undermines the government's promise to support disabled people into work, which it used to justify the biggest cuts to disability benefits in recent memory www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Interesting insights from the @johnsmithcentre.com first #UKYouthPoll2025 this morning. Although young people are facing many challenges, they largely remain optimistic about the future and expect to have a better life than their parents. My research also indicates that...

NEW blog - following the #SpringStatement, Dr @thomasrochow.bsky.social examines how young people might be affected by the cuts to welfare 📝 He writes more should be done to recognise it is increasingly difficult for young people to enter meaningful employment. Read 🔗 www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/...

New article: Navigating Digital Welfare: A Multi-Level Maze? In Social Policy & Administration. I argue that greater conceptual and empirical engagement with welfare state complexity is needed in studies of digital welfare. (OPEN ACCESS) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

@jaywiggan.bsky.social and I have written a blog where we think about the UK government's announcements last week relating to health and disability benefits etc and what this might mean for people and policymakers in Scotland. Please take a look 👇

With cuts anticipated across government in the Chancellor’s Spring Statement, both the Prime Minister and Chancellor are claiming that AI will make cuts ‘more than possible’, but @markwong.bsky.social reflects that UK policy lags behind in developing responsible AI. 🔗 www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/...

well good thing no one under 22 is capable of being disabled or suffering from a long term illness! oh wait... www.bbc.com/news/article...

I'd really encourage you to read this short article if you are remotely interested in the rise of mental-health related work inactivity - very thoughtful from @annieirvine.bsky.social www.health.org.uk/features-and... (cont)

We’re pleased to be co-hosting the Child Poverty and Public Debt Crisis national conference today with @aberlourcharity.bsky.social at @uofglasgow.bsky.social. We look forward to key notes from @moragtreanor.bsky.social @cypcs.bsky.social @sa4dunfermline.bsky.social @sallyannkelly1.bsky.social.

📣Child Poverty & the Public Debt Crisis: A National Conference 📅 Mon 17 March, UofG Keynotes: @sa4dunfermline.bsky.social, @moragtreanor.bsky.social, @cypcs.bsky.social, @sallyannkelly1.bsky.social🧵 Register for our conference with @aberlourcharity.bsky.social! www.aberlour.org.uk/about-us/pol...

New on the blog, Professor @graemeroy.bsky.social explores the unintended consequences of overlaps in devolved and reserved taxation and social security policies. 📝Marginal Tax Rates, Cliff-Edges and Devolution Read more www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/...

A 🧵 about local & devolved welfare (1 area of social policy I'm working on right now). Often people perceive a centralised UK welfare state e.g. Westminster, social insurance, DWP, £billions a year. But it's more complex & (I argue) more fragmented, raising new Qs about spatial inequalities (1/10)

The Centre for Public Policy is launching its Early Career Researchers' Network! 🌟 Open to ECRs across @uofglasgow.bsky.social interested in: 🔹 Learning how to engage with policy 🔹 Integrating impact into their research 🔹 Understanding what policymakers do/how to influence them 🧵1/4

I've just had my first sole-authored journal article published, in @youthstudies.bsky.social It's based on my PhD work, and about the experiences of young adults doing paid care work in NE England. Please have a read! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

It has been an usually bright welcome back to Glasgow for my new role with @uofgpolicy.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social ❤️ I am really excited to be joining a great team working on a range of important policy and governance issues across the UK.

“I don’t think any politician would be willing to swap with somebody on the breadline, even for an experiment.” – Jenna, Mansfield Sacha Hilhorst, Insa Lee Koch, Mark Fransham, Aaron Reeves & Mike Savage on class and perceptions of power. Out now in the journal. https://buff.ly/4gqBqDe

Hi everyone! I’m a PhD fellow from @UABBarcelona looking for a room to rent in Edinburgh from March 1st to May 1st during my visiting fellowship at @Uni_Edinburgh (Social Policy). Any tips & RTs are appreciated! 🙏 @ewanrobo.bsky.social @davidevampa.bsky.social l @philiprathgeb.bsky.social

Contrary to popular belief, new migrants are not dominating Britain’s social housing stock'. Excellent data-driven analysis by @tomcalver.bsky.social www.thetimes.com/article/cd0c...

We systematically delved into Tate’s messaging on Telegram and his website so you don’t have to! While contrasting to his vile click baity, misogyny vids @ tweets, Tate’s self-help advice is insidious ideological scaffolding that leads to + celebrates misogyny journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🚨New article in Discourse & Society 🚨 Living on a low income during the cost-of-living crisis: Exploring experiences and perceptions 🧵1/2 journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

📣 Centre for Public Policy secures funding for major anti-poverty project Funded by @therobertsontrust.bsky.social, we will assess poverty in Scotland as a grand policy challenge, detailing the impact of siloed decisions on people and driving policy solutions. More 👇 www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/...

Nice article on positive & negative discourses of luck in academic success - “luck can serve elite groups by justifying their life conditions and career trajectories in increasingly unequal societies” & provide for ECR solidarity when jobs are scarce

The Scottish Government has committed to eradicating the two child limit 📢 This is a policy that increases poverty. 85% of low-income families with 3 or more children were going without essentials in the 6 months to Oct, compared to 78% for families with 1 or 2 children. (1/2)

While a welcome emphasis, govt's definition of “good work” isn’t clearly defined. If jobcentres, employers, local authorities and others are to deliver on their ambition to “help more people to get good jobs”, everyone needs to know what this means theconversation.com/three-ways-t...

'Get Britain Working', and the challenge of welfare messaging - how a positive message sounded like a threat inequalities.substack.com/p/get-britai...

Les Tres Xemeneies at the weekend. Was great to learn about the social and ecological history of the area.

It’s the sort of headline/ political message designed to appeal to ‘middle of the road’ types; ‘sensible’, ‘fair enough’ etc. BUT most won’t know that: this is the reality NOW & being young & unemployed = poverty/ stigma/ toxic ‘conditionality’/ constant fear of sanctions/ anxiety/ ill-health…

[email protected] has to move away from this damaging, derisory rhetoric on 'welfare' and do so fast (1 of...) theconversation.com/any-hope-of-...

Lovely cafe in Barcelona, La Fuga

🧵1/6 I have only recently started reading Byung-Chul Han, it seems I am late to the party, but his work beautifully and agonisingly unpacks how the 'achievement society' and the promised freedom for the neoliberal subject traps us in a self-regulating cycle of self-optimization.

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Happy to be away from X. Here is my recent paper in Social Policy & Society open access: doi.org/10.1017/S147...