2019

May

Basic Income in Finland: How Did a Radical Idea Become Mainstream?, Johanna Perkiö

Explaining Other People’s Stances on Inequality Dr Anthony Kevins, Dr Alexander Horn, Professor Carsten Jensen and Professor Kees Van Kersbergen

April

The Politics is in the Detail: How Policy-Makers in Europe Make Use of Employment Subsidies Dr Axel Cronert

How Much Welfare Conditionality is Too Much? Dr Katherine Curchin

Do People Want Their Welfare States to Converge? Professor Peter Taylor-Gooby, Dr Jan Ocko-Heuer, Dr Heejung Chung, Dr Benjamin Leruth, Professor Steffan Mau and Dr Katharina Zimmerman.

March

Transforming Employment Support for Individuals With Health Conditions and Disabilities: Mainstreaming Learning From Individual Placement and Support (IPS) Dr Adam Whitworth

Parliamentary Committee Witnesses: Why It Matters Who Parliament Hears From Professor Hugh Bochel and Anouk Berthier

Why Has Household Food Insecurity Increased in Canada? Zsofia Mendly-Zambo and Professor Dennis Raphael

February

Neoliberalism as the “Docking Station” of Swedish Welfare Discourse: Merging Ideological Frames in Swedish Higher Education Dr Johan Nordensvärd and Dr Markus Ketola

Globalisation and the Welfare State: Is More Education What People Really Want? Dr Julian Garritzmann

Why Countries “Get Tough on the Workshy” Dr Carlo Knotz

January

Does the EU Skew Democratic Debate About Capitalism? Dr Julia Lux

Shared Parental Leave: Take-Up Barriers and Inequality Risks Dr Katherine Twamley and Professor Pia Schober

2018

December

Does Paid Work Guarantee a Secure Retirement? Low-income Single Mothers and Policy Imperatives of Welfare-to-Work Programmes in Israel Dr Anat Herbst-Debby

Troubled Families: What Role for the State? Dr Sadie Parr

Would Foucault Have Backed Macron? Revisiting ‘The Birth of Biopolitics’ Lectures Dr Paul Michael Garrett

November

Universal Credit: Design Matters Professor Jane Millar and Dr Fran Bennett

Have Welfare-to-Work Reforms Promoted Citizen Responsibility? Dr Andreas Eriksen

‘Reproducing the Stereotypes’: Family Complexity, Resource Scarcity and Social Work Decision-Making Dr Will Mason and Dr Julie Walsh

October

An Idea Whose Time Has Come? The Return of Universal Basic Income Dr Peter Sloman

EU Social Policy After Brexit Professor Mary Daly

Activating Employers in Active Labour Market Policy Professor Thomas Bredgaard

Age War as the New Class War? A Media Analysis Dr Susan Pickard

September

Is UK Welfare-to-Work Working? Short Answer: No Dr John David Jordan

It’s Good to Talk: Academics, Policy-Makers and Financial Inclusion Dr Rajiv Prabhakar

Rethinking Research Impact: How and Why Social Policy Academics Should Try to Change the UK’s Approach Professor Kat Smith and Dr Ellen Stewart

August

What Impact Does the Living Wage Have on Poverty? Professor Jonathan Bradshaw

Magic Numbers, Evidence and Universal Credit Dr Jo Ingold and Dr Mark Monaghan