📡Peep, peep! Join us at CASPAR.Cracow for a seminar with Anna Gawlewicz: ‘It changes your priorities’: Brexit and Covid-19 in stay-return motivations among Polish essential workers in the UK
⏲️May 15, 2024, 15.30-17.30 CET, online
🧲Register: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

This international women's day let's do something to get rid of benefit sanctions that are cruel and harmful to disadvantaged women.
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/women-and-welf…

Cutting national insurance would benefit high-income households the most while doing nothing for those really struggling to make ends meet

Investing the same money in Universal Credit could lift 384,000 people out of poverty

Great to see this NEF analysis getting pick up today

Racial disparities in #UniversalCredit sanction decisions remain hidden

However, analysing how the JSA sanction system operated between 2012 and 2019 provides clear evidence of institutional racism & its geographic unevenness

Racial disparities v likely ongoing

Current #UniversalCredit rules force claimants to take any job that’s available, with no consideration of its financial viability, future prospects, or suitability to people’s needs. This leads to a race to the bottom in terms of quality of jobs on offer. 
blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpol…

It was a huge privilege to speak at Unite the union: join a union parliamentary briefing on in-work conditionality yesterday

It is critical that support for working Universal Credit claimants is evidence-based and shaped by needs & experiences of workers, trade unions and employers

5 #UniversalCredit ideas:
1. Remove rule to take 'any job'.
2. Use job quality criteria to measure in-work progression.
3. Remove sanction threat from disadvantaged workers.
4. Match people with the right jobs.
5. Ensure employers offer good quality jobs.
blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpol…

And the good news is updating our social security system to support everyone, especially those who most need it, is entirely affordable.

Costs are far less than the £683 billion held by just 171 UK citizens, £480+ bn tax reliefs, £100 bn HS2, etc.

See:
warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/ier/pe…

📆Today marks 1 year since we joined The Trussell Trust to call on our party leaders to introduce an Essentials Guarantee in #UniversalCredit to ensure everyone has a protected minimum amount of support to afford the essentials.

Read our thread to see the progress we've made👇🧵

Any Cupar/Fife 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 folk out there - pls help spread the word 🙏

My lovely colleagues Living Brexit in Rural Britain & I are recruiting for focus groups on rural life 🚜🍓🐑

Do you live in *Cupar* or nearby? Join us for a friendly chat about community wellbeing, migration & Brexit. Details 👇

Woohoo, our MigrantEssentialWorkers article on the impacts of #COVID19 on 🇵🇱 essential workers in 🇬🇧 is out! Huge 🙏 to research participants & kudos to co-authors Kasia Narkowicz Aneta Piekut Dr Paulina Trevena @No Woo Woo! & Prof Sharon Wright 🤓 Read #OpenAccess in SCMR 👇 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Thank you Malgorzata Dawidek for a wonderful keynote & Dobrochna Futro for a brilliant commentary 🙌 Kudos to speakers Mirna Šolić Elwira Grossman lucia ruggerone Charlie Hackett, Yvonne Blake MORE & Taulant Guma 👊 What a fantastic day to celebrate #migration research & art 🤩

Exciting! Nearly time to start our 'Artwise' event! Can't wait! 😊🎉

How can art 🎨 help understand social science research?

Check out this symposium on *19 Jun* by our own Prof Sharon Wright & Anna Gawlewicz 🤓

Fantastic speakers incl. a keynote by the award-winning visual artist Malgorzata Dawidek 🙌

Info & register👇
eventbrite.com/e/artwise-tran…

A welcome dip in the proportion of people on #UniversalCredit being sanctioned in new DWP stats today but still over double pre-pandemic rates, applied to a much larger group

We need a system that provides security & fosters engagement rather than leaning on threats & hardship

Looking for refugees or asylum seekers who climb and live in the UK for a project (on behalf of someone else). DM for details.

Moving towards a trauma-informed social security system in Scotland Tickets - our free event on 10 May will provide a unique forum to discuss how trauma-informed approaches will improve interactions with the benefits system eventbrite.co.uk/e/moving-towar…

Well it's a sure sign an official report is worth a read when it's released on a bank holiday weekend.

DWP admit
'a sanction leads the average claimant to exit less quickly into PAYE
earnings and to earn less upon exiting'.

Nick Bailey explains in this excellent thread.