Late to share (cos life) We need to talk more about fact UK still has a Benefit Cap, & one that causes real, lasting harm, while ascribing the thousands of families affected with a power they do not have. 📖 New article on @nuffieldfoundation.org funded research www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

An impossible move? Households’ experiences of trying to escape the UK’s benefit cap | Journal of Social Policy | Cambridge Core

An impossible move? Households’ experiences of trying to escape the UK’s benefit cap

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Had a great time at @ucddublin.bsky.social for the @ucdgearyinst.bsky.social Summer School 2026. In my session, I introduced the composite story methodology developed as part of the State of Poverty project. Then, Irish Policymakers worked together, drawing upon secondary data and...

🌟Read my latest blog here 🌟 Some reflections following the Milburn interim report www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/...

NEW: 2026 Election Policy Insights – Social security💡🚨 Dr Thomas Rochow @thomasrochow.bsky.social writes that to sustainably tackle inequality in Scotland, the new Scottish Government must bolster its existing approach with preventative, system-level change. Read 🔗 www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/...

Changes to #UniversalCredit are urgently needed to help support young adults in Scotland. Here from young parents and young people with care experience in their own words, read our new #RightsInAction report, and please share. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfSd...

New #UofGSpotlight out now! We dig into Scotland’s new Child Poverty Framework with @jimmccormick.bsky.social and why income support needs combined with access to quality services with @thomasrochow.bsky.social. Tune in 🎧 uofgspotlight.com

Great day yesterday at the Sustainable Welfare workshop. Thanks to everyone who attended and contributed to an invigorating discussion. Thank you to the @socialpolicyuk.bsky.social for funding the event and @uofgpolicy.bsky.social for the support. More to come 😊

Sustainable Welfare Workshop: What is the role of social policy in moving towards a post growth society? Thursday, 12 March 2026 University of Glasgow Supported by the Social Policy Association and the Centre for Public Policy ⬇️ social-policy.org.uk/events/susta...

Sustainable Welfare Workshop: What is the role of social policy in moving towards a post growth society? - Social Policy Association

Date: Thursday, 12 March 2026 Time: 10 am to 4 pm GMT Where: Advanced Research Centre (ARC), University of Glasgow, Room 237C, Glasgow.   This [...]

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Nice to start the week with publication of a co-authored review on #Justice Issues in #Climate Policy led by @mmbuchs.bsky.social. What are the sustainable #welfare and #JustTransitions literatures saying, e.g., on capitalism and growth? Check it out: wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Perspectives on Social and Justice Issues in Climate Policy – Comparing the Just Transitions, Sustainable Welfare and Eco‐Social Policy Literatures

Mapping the Just Transitions, Sustainable Welfare and Eco-Social Policy Literatures along the axes of capitalism/growth approaches and global justice demonstrates that there is a large gap in researc....

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Read my latest blog here - Scotland should be proud of the Scottish Child Payment, but social security investment on its own cannot eradicate child poverty.

UofG Centre for Public Policy@uofgpolicy.bsky.social · 8mo ago

...3. What does the continual increase in Social Security spending mean for Scotland? 💡 @thomasrochow.bsky.social writes about ensuring the welcomed increase in social security investment is coupled with action to address the structural causes of poverty. Read: www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/...

...3. What does the continual increase in Social Security spending mean for Scotland? 💡 @thomasrochow.bsky.social writes about ensuring the welcomed increase in social security investment is coupled with action to address the structural causes of poverty. Read: www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/...

📣Call for Papers: Sustainable Welfare Workshop. This one-day workshop in Glasgow explores how welfare institutions, labour markets, and systems of care can be re-imagined to ensure equity and wellbeing within ecological limits. 📅Deadline: 12 December 2025 ▶️ social-policy.org.uk/events/call-...

Public workshop on how to use composite stories💡 ✏️ On 6 November our @thomasrochow.bsky.social hosted a public workshop exploring how composite stories can bring lived experience into research and policymaking. Learn more on our website 🔗 www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/... @uofgsocsci.bsky.social

🚨 🆕 analysis w/ @turnbulldugarte.com: most British young men reject the far right @ukandeu.bsky.social Despite media claims, 71% of young men & 75% of young women say they’d never vote Reform UK. The gender gap exists, but it’s steady across ages—not youth-driven. 🔗 ukandeu.ac.uk/most-british...

Most British young men reject the far right - UK in a changing Europe

Emilia Belknap and Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte explain their analysis on the demographics of Reform UK voters in the UK. They argue that while the dominant narrative is that young men are the most likely ...

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New #ChallengePovertyWeek Spotlight episode! Exploring the governance of poverty - not just through policy, but through systems. Insight from @drcmacrae.bsky.social & @thomasrochow.bsky.social. Then Clackmannanshire Council & the Hunter Foundation on local system change Tune in 🎧 uofgspotlight.com

📢New Article Alert 📢 Excited to have my second article from my PhD published in the Journal of Youth Studies - Young people's experiences of multiple benefit sanctions: secondary analysis of qualitative longitudinal data www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Young people’s experiences of multiple benefit sanctions: secondary analysis of qualitative longitudinal data

Despite a broadening scope in youth studies, the topic of welfare conditionality and its disproportionate punitive impacts on young people remains underexplored. Benefit sanctions are a financial p...

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📢New Article Alert 📢 Excited to have my second article from my PhD published in the Journal of Youth Studies - Young people's experiences of multiple benefit sanctions: secondary analysis of qualitative longitudinal data www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Young people’s experiences of multiple benefit sanctions: secondary analysis of qualitative longitudinal data

Despite a broadening scope in youth studies, the topic of welfare conditionality and its disproportionate punitive impacts on young people remains underexplored. Benefit sanctions are a financial p...

tandfonline.com

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/

Edward Elgar Publishing@elgarpublishing.bsky.social · last yr.

🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒 NEW #OpenAccess title: Families, Welfare States and Resilience, edited by Mary Daly of @ox.ac.uk 🟠 Read the entire book #OA at: doi.org/10.4337/9781... More info: www.e-elgar.com/shop/isbn/97... Endorsement by @kittyjstewart.bsky.social #SocialPolicy #Sociology #LabourPolicy

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....