I am a Professor of Social Policy at the School of Social Sciences at Cardiff University. My primary research interests are the conceptualisation and measurement of poverty, the analysis of social security policy and anti-poverty initiatives, and the capability approach. I am the author of more than 40 journal articles, book chapters and research reports.
As of early 2024, I am working on two funded projects. The first is a Swiss-UK comparative study of the relationship between low-quality work, in-work poverty and subjective well-being. This study is being led by Prof. Eric Crettaz and has been funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. You can read more about this study here. In the second, I am part of the team evaluating the Welsh Basic Income Pilot for Care Leavers, which is being led by Prof. Sally Holland and Dave Westlake at Cardiff University.
I am also undertaking a major piece of work about the evolution of poverty and living standards in Europe over the last two decades, and the contribution played by social policy reforms to these shifts.
Between 2019 and 2022, I led an ESRC-funded study on the link between housing and poverty in a comparative European context and how this has evolved in the decade since the Great Recession. This was a interdisciplinary, comparative study conducted with Dr Marco Pomati (Cardiff) and Prof. Mark Stephens (University of Glasgow), and we are currently working on the final outputs from this project.
If you would like to know more about these studies, or if you would like me to speak about these, please get in touch.