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Great to hear Liz Kendall highlighting the complexity of barriers to work. People need support for mental distress but ALSO action to address structural barriers to work. Mental health in context: The role of precarious and insecure work  futuresofwork.co.uk/2024/07/23/men… #Health

Record numbers of people being long-term unemployed due to disabilities & poor health has led to calls to apply stricter conditions on benefits But my new NEF paper argues that DWP could be doing much more to foster voluntary engagement with support...🧵 neweconomics.org/2024/08/better…

Could an approach based on voluntary engagement with employment support lead to positive change for people with health problems? Really important work from Tom Pollard NEF and thought-provoking responses in the comments. Decades of harm and broken trust will be hard to undo...

🧠 Join us for a thought-provoking seminar with Prof Fabian Freyenhagen @essexphilosophy as we explore how mental distress is shaped by societal structures. 🗓️ 18 Sept 🕒 15:30-16:30 🎫 Register now ⬇️ kcl.ac.uk/events/csmh-se…

Programme Manager Desparately needed! Join an ace, friendly team of academics from six unis & policy peeps at Resolution Foundation & Child Poverty Action Group looking at the relationship b/w devolution and social security in the UK for Nuffield Foundation jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/progra… [pls share]

I'm keen to chat with anyone interested in doing a PhD with us Decent Work and Productivity at Manchester Met Uni focused on Active labour market policy/welfare conditionality, vocational education and training, employment and skills transitions, work and the welfare state x.com/mmu_decentwork…

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Insightful analysis by @ThomasRochow showing how policies, ideologies and discourses that promote individualised responses to social and structural problems can permeate young people's sense of self and their approaches to jobseeking 👇🏽

Delighted to see this article published open access in Journal of Social Policy. It draws on qualitative interviews with people subject to work-related conditionality to explore whether conditionality is experienced as a set of standardised time demands doi.org/10.1017/S00472…

“…providing financial stability, a sense of feeling supported rather than pushed, punished or surveilled, and being treated with compassion and trust would reduce many of the harms people experienced.”

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The Health Foundation has published new analysis on mental health trends among working age people and invited me to share some thoughts. Taking a more holistic approach to understanding capacity for work seems to be at the heart of it: health.org.uk/features-and-o…

As DWP launches review on “how to urgently support people with long-term illnesses or disabilities back into work” they must remember that people’s lives are more than their health issues. Health matters, but its not the whole story health.org.uk/features-and-o… health.org.uk/features-and-o…

Really interesting and inspiring event hosted by Resolution Foundation on Careers in the Think Tank sector. Well worth a watch Social Policy Society School for Business and Society 🏫 youtube.com/live/H7qc4_QeE…

Exciting new fully funded PhD opportunity! Spread the word! Disabled People's Lived Experiences of Benefit Reform and the Costs of Disability Deadline: 10 April 2025 sgsss.ac.uk/studentship/di… University of Glasgow UofG Social Sciences UofG Soc & Pol Sci SGSSS