A Critical Analysis of the use of dissalowance and sactions 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.

GoWell East

This major new study examines the impact that the 2014 Commonwealth Games, and related regeneration interventions, will have on communities living next to some of the main Games venues in the inner East End of Glasgow.

GoWell: Glasgow Community Health and Wellbeing Research and Learning Programme

‌Investigate the impact of investment in housing, regeneration and neighbourhood renewal on the health and wellbeing of individuals, families and communities over a ten-year period. The programme aims to establish the nature and extent of these impacts, to learn about the relative effectiveness of different approaches, and to inform policy and practice in Scotland and beyond.

Neighbourhood Dynamics and Spatial Segregation

How do the population characteristics of individual neighbourhoods change over time, and how is the overall pattern of spatial segregation affected as a result.

REPAIR: Real Estate, Place Adaptation and Innovation within an integrated Retailing system ‌

Real Estate, Place Adaptation and Innovation within an integrated Retailing systems (REPAIR) is a multi-stream research project, running over three years,  that aims to analyse the creation of diversity, innovation and, thus, adaptive capacity within urban retail markets.

Serving deprived communities in a recession

Focusing on the consequences for vulnerable people and deprived places of the "worst financial settlement in living memory" for local government.

Urban Transformations: Urban Development , Migration, Segregation and Inequality

Research to inform international theory, policy and practice on welfare conditionality.

Welfare Conditionality

Welfare Conditionality: Sanctions, Support and Behaviour Change

We’re studying conditional welfare in the UK. By that we mean two main situations. One is where people’s access to welfare is restricted or stopped – for example, by benefit sanctions or rules. The second, equally important, is welfare support – for example, through family intervention projects or help to find work. Generally with these kinds of sanctions and support, governments aim to get people to change their behaviour. We’re looking into all the effects of sanctions and support on people’s lives.

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