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New #UofGSpotlight out now!
We dig into Scotland’s new Child Poverty Framework with @jimmccormick.bsky.social and why income support needs combined with access to quality services with @thomasrochow.bsky.social.
Tune in 🎧 uofgspotlight.com
Great day yesterday at the Sustainable Welfare workshop. Thanks to everyone who attended and contributed to an invigorating discussion. Thank you to the @socialpolicyuk.bsky.social for funding the event and @uofgpolicy.bsky.social for the support. More to come 😊
Sustainable Welfare Workshop: What is the role of social policy in moving towards a post growth society?
Thursday, 12 March 2026
University of Glasgow
Supported by the Social Policy Association and the Centre for Public Policy ⬇️
social-policy.org.uk/events/susta...
Nice to start the week with publication of a co-authored review on #Justice Issues in #Climate Policy led by @mmbuchs.bsky.social. What are the sustainable #welfare and #JustTransitions literatures saying, e.g., on capitalism and growth?
Check it out:
wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Read my latest blog here -
Scotland should be proud of the Scottish Child Payment, but social security investment on its own cannot eradicate child poverty.
Scottish Budget: What does the continual increase in Social Security spending mean for Scotland? Dr Thomas Rochow. Photo of Dr Rochow, a photo of the Scottish Parliament, and the University of Glasgow and Centre for Public Policy logos.
...3. What does the continual increase in Social Security spending mean for Scotland? 💡
@thomasrochow.bsky.social writes about ensuring the welcomed increase in social security investment is coupled with action to address the structural causes of poverty.
Read:
www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/...
📣Call for Papers: Sustainable Welfare Workshop.
This one-day workshop in Glasgow explores how welfare institutions, labour markets, and systems of care can be re-imagined to ensure equity and wellbeing within ecological limits.
📅Deadline: 12 December 2025
▶️ social-policy.org.uk/events/call-...
Learning about composite stories in 'Using Stories to Understand Systems' workshop. Part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science, photos of the event, Centre for Public Policy and University of Glasgow logos
Public workshop on how to use composite stories💡 ✏️
On 6 November our @thomasrochow.bsky.social hosted a public workshop exploring how composite stories can bring lived experience into research and policymaking.
Learn more on our website 🔗
www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/...
@uofgsocsci.bsky.social
🚨 🆕 analysis w/ @turnbulldugarte.com: most British young men reject the far right @ukandeu.bsky.social Despite media claims, 71% of young men & 75% of young women say they’d never vote Reform UK. The gender gap exists, but it’s steady across ages—not youth-driven.
🔗 ukandeu.ac.uk/most-british...
Spotlight Episode artwork: The State of Poverty: Systems, Silos and Solutions.
New #ChallengePovertyWeek Spotlight episode! Exploring the governance of poverty - not just through policy, but through systems.
Insight from @drcmacrae.bsky.social & @thomasrochow.bsky.social. Then Clackmannanshire Council & the Hunter Foundation on local system change
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📢New Article Alert 📢
Excited to have my second article from my PhD published in the Journal of Youth Studies -
Young people's experiences of multiple benefit sanctions: secondary analysis of qualitative longitudinal data
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Thank you to the annonymous reviewers who helped improve this article and a special thank you to @profsharonwright.bsky.social who provided excellent feedback to earlier drafts of this paper.
4/4 The 'wedding of workfare and prisonfare' may have long-term negative impacts for young people. More research is needed to investigate why young people experience far higher benefit sanction rates, and why young men appear to be most affected.
3/4 and in retrospect. The findings suggest that the most common emotional response to multiple benefit sanctions was anger, and the most common behavioural response was alienation from employment support.
2/4 However, there is limited research which explores how young people make sense of benefit sanction experiences over time. This article demonstrates the value in utilising secondary qualitative data to understand how young people who experienced multiple benefit sanctions responded in real time...
1/4 Young people experience disproportionately high benefit sanction rates and young men are the group most likely to have a financial sanction applied to their UC claim. These unequal sanction rates are consistent across the UK over time. Research has highlighted this quantitative trend...
📢New Article Alert 📢
Excited to have my second article from my PhD published in the Journal of Youth Studies -
Young people's experiences of multiple benefit sanctions: secondary analysis of qualitative longitudinal data
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The State of Poverty: An Introduction. Dr Thomas Rochow. Image features a photo from the events and the University of Glasgow and Centre for Public Policy logos.
In case you missed it 📣
In June we launched a new research project, The State of Poverty.
In a new blog, CPP's @thomasrochow.bsky.social shares more about the project, which is exploring how policy siloes shape experiences of poverty in Scotland.
Read 🔗
www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/...
Very excited that a paper @clemmiehilloconnor.bsky.social & I have written has been accepted by Policy & Politics journal. "Lived experience as evidence in anti-poverty policymaking: a governance-driven perspective" hopefully we can share e-prints later this month. Lots of work & we're very happy!
Amazing presentation by @sionedps.bsky.social at #PPPconf2025 her research explores the power of effective devolution at supporting young jobseekers in Wales and Scotland
Afternoon is go and we have my colleague @thomasrochow.bsky.social presenting on a new @therobertsontrust.bsky.social funded project on the state of poverty with @profnicolamcewen.bsky.social and colleagues not on here
📘Thrilled to see this book published! In Chapter 6, with @margaleon.bsky.social & @thomasrochow.bsky.social, we explore how families navigate precarity in Spain, based on seven focus groups. Despite challenges, participants show resilience and highlight the need for policy reform.
🔗 fuab.cc/OA-CH6/
Welcome to Glasgow! Proud that you are open about these things ❤️
Fascinating presentation by @hlrandolph.bsky.social on the modelling The Scottish Child Payment @easp-spa-2025.bsky.social
@drcmacrae.bsky.social presenting the State of Poverty project @easp-spa-2025.bsky.social 😄
New post, ***The PIP cuts and public opinion***
-> Exempting current claimants will avoid the worst controversies - but there's a chance of more resistance as the cuts are implemented
inequalities.substack.com/p/the-pip-cu...
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🚨 NEW: Opportunities for the poorest young people in London far outstrip the rest of England, we have found.
Our new Opportunity Index reveals how the area young people grow up in shapes their life chances, with huge differences between constituencies across the country 🧵⬇️