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The mental health conversation hasn't gone too far, but has it become too narrow? Sharing our emerging evidence on why the UK needs a more holistic approach to assessing capacity for work #welfareconditionality #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek kcl.ac.uk/the-mental-hea…

Are you and your colleagues trying to reform the Office for Budget Responsibility, so that it can support an expansive investment agenda rather than reinforce austerity? Then look no further than this article, just published in British Politics: doi.org/10.1057/s41293… 🧵/5

A similar picture on workers rights. Every constituency in the UK wants to see them strengthened. The difference is only in the intensity of that opinion. This is about as close to a free lunch electorally as you are likely to find. persuasionuk.org/opinion-maps/w…

Ministerial responsibilities Department for Work and Pensions now published... and for first time in 25 years(?) we've separate Ministers for Employment and Social Security! Good news in my view - both priorities, and two great appts in Alison McGovern and Sir Stephen Timms 🧵 gov.uk/government/org…

Wrote about how Stockport, Angela Rayner’s hometown, exemplifies some of the key planning challenges govt faces. Plus, the chronic public policy failures behind the NAO’s latest report on homelessness - which lead back to the same challenges on.ft.com/4cXGNbp

On the Futures of Work blog, Katy Jones highlights how the existing ‘any jobs’ approach to welfare taken by successive governments pushes people into poor-quality work which they then often struggle to get out of. Decent Work and Productivity at Manchester Met Uni ow.ly/l8pg50SJ36l

Just out - our call for papers for the 6th Fairness at Work Conference next January. Join us to discuss fairness reimagined: Multidisciplinary perspectives about work >> documents.manchester.ac.uk/display.aspx?D… Work & Equalities Institute

New Universal Credit statistics show the impact of the recent increase in the Administrative Earnings Threshold. The number of people in the Searching for Work conditionality group rose by 160k from June to July, while the Working with requirements group decreased by 140k people

Passion and Precarity: How Creative Industries Leverage Motivation In today's blog, James Davies discusses his paper co-authored with Jon Morris & Gazi Islam, which examines the working lives of freelance television workers. blog.bham.ac.uk/cityredi/passi…

Can the tax system be changed to help rebalance inequalities across the country? 🇬🇧 ⚖️ ✔️ YES, according to this great new IPPR North report from Marcus Johns & Henry Parkes 💡read the full report & find out the details here👇🏽 ippr.org/articles/suppo…

🗣️Come and hear from our Co Chair @FindlayPatricia, Minister for Employment and Investment Tom Arthur, Bryan Simpson from Unite Hospitality and Marc Crothall MBE from ST Alliance at our #FairWorkHospitalityInquiry report launch event BOOK NOW👉tinyurl.com/yzbn389f

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As the Labour govt advocates for flexible working to become the default, Nina M. Jörden & Josie Beale conducted research for @cambahead to provide experimental insights into how virtual teams can build & nurture social bonds that drive teamwork & innovation. bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk/blog/virtual-t…

"Justice is not something we can afford to deprioritise – it is a basic human right. When the system is starved, it is the vulnerable who suffer." 🔑⚖️ Here's a short summary of the The Bar Council's new report by our volunteer 🇵🇸 Just Another Pupil Barrister 🇵🇸. gmlaw.org.uk/2024/09/18/jus…

🧒 There are now 1.6 million children - 1 in 9 children - across the UK that are impacted by the two-child limit according to End Child Poverty 💷 Social security is a human right, yet this harsh policy deliberately pushes families into poverty – it should be scrapped now.

The Employment Rights Bill is here. By tackling poor working conditions to benefit businesses and workers alike, we’re making the changes needed to boost productivity and support economic growth 👉 ow.ly/sb5050TIzSy

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…

New on #FirstView by Ceri Hughes: Re-examining ‘personalised conditionality’: full-time obligations, partial adjustments and power asymmetries in the UK’s approach to work-related conditionality cambridge.org/core/journals/…

A busy week meant I didn't share this sooner, but... 🚨NEW RESEARCH CLAXON🚨 We Resolve Poverty are pleased to have published new research this week showing the scale of voluntary socio-economic duty adoption across English councils. 🔗resolvepoverty.org/access-socio-e…

On Thursday, Nov 21st, the Work and Equalities Institute & ResPecTMe project hosted Prof. ValeriaPulignano from Sam Van Campenhout to discuss her forthcoming book “The Politics of Unpaid Labour” 📚 Her talk explored how studying unpaid labour can help tackle inequality in precarious work.