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

2 July 2026: Following Alan Milburn's recent interim report into young people and work, Dr Thomas Rochow outlines the 'perfect storm' facing young people preparing to enter the world of work, and writ...

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

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....

Call for Papers: Sustainable Welfare Workshop 12th March 2026 The University of Glasgow  We are living in a time of polycrisis, where related and interdependent [...]

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 ...

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...

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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This paper presents data on pay, housing and pension prospects which shows that an inter-generation decline in life chances that had begun by the 1980s is continuing in the 2020s. A difference is t...

Job Purpose  The University of Glasgow is inviting applications for a Research Policy Associate with an expertise in economic policy to join its Centre for Public Policy. The Centre for Public Poli...

A report says there are 2,100 fewer work coaches than needed while the number of people requiring support has risen.

Greater conceptual and empirical engagement with welfare state complexity is needed in studies of digital welfare. This article explores how existing concepts such as welfare systems, subsidiarisatio...

The move comes as part of an overhaul of the welfare system as the UK's benefits bill rises.

Dr Annie Irvine on why we need a much more holistic approach to understanding capacity in order to tackle mental health-related inactivity.

Aberlour is co-hosting a national conference with the University of Glasgow's Centre for Public Policy, focusing on tackling child poverty through public debt reform this Debt Awareness Week.

This article brings a youth lens to the study of care by empirically examining the accounts of young adults who pursue paid adult social care employment. The youth lens includes drawing on youth st...