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  • Research in Urban Studies
  • Completed projects
  • A critical analysis of the use of disallowance and sanctions in the UK
  • A Clean Sweep: Delivering Cleaner Streets in Diverse Neighbourhoods
  • A critical analysis of the use of disallowance and sanctions in the UK
  • Active Travel and the Role of Information and Communications Technology
  • An In-depth Examination of the Implementation of the Disability Equality Duty in England
  • Analysis of Cities and Regions
  • Connectivity and Conflict in Periods of Austerity
  • Delivering Better Places in Scotland
  • Discovering Property Policy: An Examination of Scottish Executive Policy and the Property Sector
  • Economics of Crime
  • Evaluation of Scottish Centre for Healthy Working Lives Workplace, Services and Award Programme
  • Evidence Review of the Impacts of UK Welfare Reform affecting Housing
  • Factors Affecting Housing Build-out Rates
  • Food Choice and Changes in Body Weight and Shape in those Attempting Smoking Cessation
  • GoWell
  • GoWell East
  • Healthy Design? Understanding the Edible City on Glasgow’s Southside
  • Housing and Neighbourhoods Monitor
  • Housing and work incentives
  • Housing Market Taskforce
  • ICT, Place and Transport
  • Local Housing Market Analysis in Northern Ireland
  • National Evaluation of Keep Well
  • National Evaluation of Keep Well: Practice and Patient Experience
  • Neighbourhood dynamics and spatial segregation
  • New Climate, New Challenges
  • Northern Ireland Housing Market Areas
  • Polycentric Access to Employment
  • Poverty and Social Exclusion UK Survey
  • Reframing Citizen Relationships with the Public Sector in a Time of Austerity
  • Regional density functions and regional boundaries
  • SHAPE (Shaping Educational Attitudes and Aspirations: The Influence of Parents, Place and Poverty)
  • Spatial Structure Contrasts between Urban and Regional Systems
  • Tackling Health Inequalities in Primary Care: Can Performance Indicators be a Sustainable Part of the Solution?
  • The Cost of Social Housing Development
  • The Credit Crunch and the Scottish Housing System
  • The impact of neighbourhood context on attitudes to inequality and redistribution
  • The Implicit Pricing of Property Attributes
  • The Problem of Social Housing Stigmatisation and the Innovations that can Minimise its Effects
  • The Spatial Cycle Model Reconsidered
  • The Value of Planning
  • Understanding Builder to Builder Residential Land Transactions
  • Unpacking the Conception of ‘Legacy’ with respect to Planning for the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow
  • Urban Transformation in China
  • Urban Transformations: Urban Development , Migration, Segregation and Inequality
  • Village Lead Land and Property Development in China: A study of current practice in the successful villages
  • Young People and Territoriality in British Cities

A Critical Analysis of the use of dissalowance and sanctions in the UK unemployment benefit system since 1911

The UK system of benefit sanctions for unemployed people has recently become increasingly controversial because of its evident role in creating destitution, as evidenced most vividly in the increased use of food banks. Yet there are virtually no existing academic studies of this system. This project aims to fill this gap.

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