Graduate Student, Applied Social Science
PhD Student
Thesis Title: Activation policies and the experience of unemployment
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Sharon Wright
Vernon Gayle |
About
I'm currently a first-year PhD student in Stirling University's social science department, where I have an ESRC studentship. My PhD explores the social dimension of welfare-to-work reforms, based upon the argument that existing evaluations of welfare reform focus too heavily on economic outcomes like employment. Principally, I am interested two aspects of reform. First, how does conditionality and 'active welfare' interact with claimants' notions of social responsibility, cohesion and fairness? Second, how has conditionality affected the health, wellbeing and social capital of welfare service users?
My other academic interests lie largely in the discipline of social policy as well. I'm particularly interested in attitudes to the welfare state, income inequality, health and wellbeing, unemployment, social security and back-to-work programmes. I also study the politics of social policy and in particular the continuity between New Labour and the Coalition. Finally, I'm interested in the broad philosophy of social science and what its practice actually means.
Before moving to Stirling, I studied at both the LSE (2008-09) and UCL (2005-08).
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