Ceri Hughes
@ceridwenhughes.bsky.social
Research Fellow at the Work and Equalities Institute, University of Manchester. Visiting Fellow at CASE, LSE. Researching experiences of insecure work, activation & the negotiation of work-related conditionality
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Ceri Hughes
@ceridwenhughes.bsky.social
· Oct 24
Delighted to see this article published open access. 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/S004...
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🫱🏻🫲🏻 We’re collaborating with Decent Work and the City during #GoodEmploymentWeek:
✔️ How to make the #GoodEmploymentCharter work for women
📅 25th Nov
🕜 1.30–3.30pm
📍 Alliance Business School
It'll explore how to make the Charter more inclusive of women’s needs.
🔗 www.eventbrite.ca/e/how-to-mak...
✔️ How to make the #GoodEmploymentCharter work for women
📅 25th Nov
🕜 1.30–3.30pm
📍 Alliance Business School
It'll explore how to make the Charter more inclusive of women’s needs.
🔗 www.eventbrite.ca/e/how-to-mak...
November 11, 2025 at 9:01 AM
🫱🏻🫲🏻 We’re collaborating with Decent Work and the City during #GoodEmploymentWeek:
✔️ How to make the #GoodEmploymentCharter work for women
📅 25th Nov
🕜 1.30–3.30pm
📍 Alliance Business School
It'll explore how to make the Charter more inclusive of women’s needs.
🔗 www.eventbrite.ca/e/how-to-mak...
✔️ How to make the #GoodEmploymentCharter work for women
📅 25th Nov
🕜 1.30–3.30pm
📍 Alliance Business School
It'll explore how to make the Charter more inclusive of women’s needs.
🔗 www.eventbrite.ca/e/how-to-mak...
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A few weeks ago this Reform rising star went on LBC & said young people were being paid too much,citing his experience in hospitality.
So we looked into his companies & found 3 tribunal judgments for failure to pay wages, holiday pay & provide contracts
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
So we looked into his companies & found 3 tribunal judgments for failure to pay wages, holiday pay & provide contracts
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
November 21, 2025 at 10:41 AM
A few weeks ago this Reform rising star went on LBC & said young people were being paid too much,citing his experience in hospitality.
So we looked into his companies & found 3 tribunal judgments for failure to pay wages, holiday pay & provide contracts
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
So we looked into his companies & found 3 tribunal judgments for failure to pay wages, holiday pay & provide contracts
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
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More fuel for @stephenkb.bsky.social’s theory that post-AI jobs will include bank teller - and now also door-to-door opinion pollster.
new paper by Sean Westwood:
With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
November 18, 2025 at 9:56 PM
More fuel for @stephenkb.bsky.social’s theory that post-AI jobs will include bank teller - and now also door-to-door opinion pollster.
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Working on the Nov issue of my Digital Welfare State newsletter - what did Kier Starmer learn from his trip to Mumbai that might shape the UK's digital ID system?
Why did thousands of families have their child benefit suspended when they went on holiday?
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Why did thousands of families have their child benefit suspended when they went on holiday?
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Digital welfare state: origins, controversies, research — ABD Consultancy
How are governments worldwise using AI and other tech to administer the welfare state? Find out about research, policy and investigations into the digital welfare state, including digital surveillance...
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November 3, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Working on the Nov issue of my Digital Welfare State newsletter - what did Kier Starmer learn from his trip to Mumbai that might shape the UK's digital ID system?
Why did thousands of families have their child benefit suspended when they went on holiday?
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Why did thousands of families have their child benefit suspended when they went on holiday?
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🚨 Our new investigation out today reveals how thousands of people who've taken their bosses to employment tribunals & won, never got paid, even after they approached the government for help.
This has serious implications for the Employment rights bill.
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
This has serious implications for the Employment rights bill.
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
Thousands of rogue bosses get away with not paying tribunal awards
The government scheme ‘enforcing’ money owed to workers has been unsuccessful in a staggering three-quarters of cases
www.thebureauinvestigates.com
October 2, 2025 at 7:46 AM
🚨 Our new investigation out today reveals how thousands of people who've taken their bosses to employment tribunals & won, never got paid, even after they approached the government for help.
This has serious implications for the Employment rights bill.
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
This has serious implications for the Employment rights bill.
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
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Radical right accommodation really does not work.
New paper out with this exceptionally talented team
@katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk
doi.org/10.31235/osf...
New paper out with this exceptionally talented team
@katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk
doi.org/10.31235/osf...
September 5, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Radical right accommodation really does not work.
New paper out with this exceptionally talented team
@katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk
doi.org/10.31235/osf...
New paper out with this exceptionally talented team
@katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk
doi.org/10.31235/osf...
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New paper with @lisagarnham.bsky.social @profellenstu.bsky.social & @clemmiehilloconnor.bsky.social finds housing 3Cs (context, cost, condition) are recognised by researchers, policymakers & publics but only lived experience accounts centre a 4th C—control: journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...
Housing as a social determinant of health: System perspectives from lived experience, policy and evidence
| Journal of Critical Public Health
journalhosting.ucalgary.ca
August 20, 2025 at 4:37 PM
New paper with @lisagarnham.bsky.social @profellenstu.bsky.social & @clemmiehilloconnor.bsky.social finds housing 3Cs (context, cost, condition) are recognised by researchers, policymakers & publics but only lived experience accounts centre a 4th C—control: journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...
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Millions of workers experience the problems associated with insecure work.
This includes 1.1 million workers on low pay.
Read more: buff.ly/0OSArrI
This includes 1.1 million workers on low pay.
Read more: buff.ly/0OSArrI
July 22, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Millions of workers experience the problems associated with insecure work.
This includes 1.1 million workers on low pay.
Read more: buff.ly/0OSArrI
This includes 1.1 million workers on low pay.
Read more: buff.ly/0OSArrI
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‘Austerity is a choice. The protection of the family at the expense of other ways of living is a choice. The transfer of public wealth to private wealth is a choice.
Is abundance possible for all? Melinda Cooper thinks it is.’
Katrina Forrester reviews her new book: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Is abundance possible for all? Melinda Cooper thinks it is.’
Katrina Forrester reviews her new book: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Katrina Forrester · ‘I appreciate depreciation’: Dynastic Capitalism
Austerity is a choice. The protection of the family at the expense of other ways of living is a choice. The transfer of...
www.lrb.co.uk
July 9, 2025 at 7:50 PM
‘Austerity is a choice. The protection of the family at the expense of other ways of living is a choice. The transfer of public wealth to private wealth is a choice.
Is abundance possible for all? Melinda Cooper thinks it is.’
Katrina Forrester reviews her new book: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Is abundance possible for all? Melinda Cooper thinks it is.’
Katrina Forrester reviews her new book: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Yes lack of awareness & effective scrutiny. At the end of 2024, 3.67m people had valid leave to remain or a visa which usually comes with no recourse to public funds conditions. That means a blanket ban on most income based benefits like UC, CB & no access to the equal opportunities PIP & DLA offer.
the article doesn't mention that people who aren't settled can't claim public funds, and kemi will never do this unless someone actually presses her on it. yet another tired example of "i will implement this thing we already do"
Quite apart from the obvious xenophobia and cruelty, you'd have thought that this lot would have learnt from Windrush what requiring vulnerable people to provide evidence of citizenship leads to. But perhaps they just don't care.
July 6, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Yes lack of awareness & effective scrutiny. At the end of 2024, 3.67m people had valid leave to remain or a visa which usually comes with no recourse to public funds conditions. That means a blanket ban on most income based benefits like UC, CB & no access to the equal opportunities PIP & DLA offer.
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Very excited for the Social Policy Association annual conference, starting tomorrow! We'll be presenting some early findings from our @nuffieldfoundation.org project on Universal Credit, Good Work and Progression #York2025
16:00-17:30 Wednesday, 2 July, 2025, SLB/005
Symposium: Inclusive work and welfare: Examining welfare and work interactions and dimensions of job quality (including Levana Magnus, Anne Daguerre, Clara Mascaro, Ashwin Kumar, Katy Jones, Paul Sissons, Vanessa Fuertes)
Symposium: Inclusive work and welfare: Examining welfare and work interactions and dimensions of job quality (including Levana Magnus, Anne Daguerre, Clara Mascaro, Ashwin Kumar, Katy Jones, Paul Sissons, Vanessa Fuertes)
July 1, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Very excited for the Social Policy Association annual conference, starting tomorrow! We'll be presenting some early findings from our @nuffieldfoundation.org project on Universal Credit, Good Work and Progression #York2025
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Last day at @easp-spa-2025.bsky.social & hearing from @annieirvine.bsky.social & Cindy Leung on what’s wrong with the Work Capability Assessment
July 4, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Last day at @easp-spa-2025.bsky.social & hearing from @annieirvine.bsky.social & Cindy Leung on what’s wrong with the Work Capability Assessment
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Hi 👋 we're moved over from X. This is the bluesky account for the @socialpolicyuk.bsky.social policy group for Employment (and Social Security). social-policy.org.uk/news/spa-pol...
SPA Policy Groups - Social Policy Association
The SPA exists to advance the teaching, research, and dissemination of knowledge in the field of social policy, and to represent the interests of our [...]
social-policy.org.uk
June 12, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Hi 👋 we're moved over from X. This is the bluesky account for the @socialpolicyuk.bsky.social policy group for Employment (and Social Security). social-policy.org.uk/news/spa-pol...
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Big day in Westminster today. But big implications for the whole country. A "zero-based" spending review means the government has been through all public spending and decided its priorities line by line. Follow for analysis through the day.
June 11, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Big day in Westminster today. But big implications for the whole country. A "zero-based" spending review means the government has been through all public spending and decided its priorities line by line. Follow for analysis through the day.
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Our Labour Market Stats briefing blog has just been published. The unemployment rate is at the highest level in nearly four years, and combined figures indicate that employers have adjusted to rising costs by reducing workforce size and future workforce planning. Read: bit.ly/3ZoshF2
June 10, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Our Labour Market Stats briefing blog has just been published. The unemployment rate is at the highest level in nearly four years, and combined figures indicate that employers have adjusted to rising costs by reducing workforce size and future workforce planning. Read: bit.ly/3ZoshF2
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Taking ten months shared parental leave was one of the best things I've ever done.
Sadly it's only big corporates that will pay for leave, as a way of retaining professional workers. I've got so many sad DMs from dads in low paid jobs who couldn't make the money work.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Sadly it's only big corporates that will pay for leave, as a way of retaining professional workers. I've got so many sad DMs from dads in low paid jobs who couldn't make the money work.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Give new dads six weeks off work at nearly full pay, MPs say
A report says dads should be paid 80% of earnings and allowed six weeks off work when they have a child.
www.bbc.co.uk
June 10, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Taking ten months shared parental leave was one of the best things I've ever done.
Sadly it's only big corporates that will pay for leave, as a way of retaining professional workers. I've got so many sad DMs from dads in low paid jobs who couldn't make the money work.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Sadly it's only big corporates that will pay for leave, as a way of retaining professional workers. I've got so many sad DMs from dads in low paid jobs who couldn't make the money work.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Are you a post-doctoral researcher with strong qualitative skills, a critical mind and a love for digging into the complexities of how people navigate work and health? Check out our vacancy at the Uni of York School for Business and Society: jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/rese... @uoysbs.bsky.social
Jobs - The University of York
jobs.york.ac.uk
June 4, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Are you a post-doctoral researcher with strong qualitative skills, a critical mind and a love for digging into the complexities of how people navigate work and health? Check out our vacancy at the Uni of York School for Business and Society: jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/rese... @uoysbs.bsky.social
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Good to see HMRC targeting time-drainage mechanisms in enforcing the minimum wage. 31% of this year's named employers failed to pay workers correctly for their working time. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
BA and Pizza Express among companies that failed to pay minimum wage
More than 60,000 workers have received back pay worth £7.4m from 518 employers after HMRC investigations
www.theguardian.com
May 30, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Good to see HMRC targeting time-drainage mechanisms in enforcing the minimum wage. 31% of this year's named employers failed to pay workers correctly for their working time. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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👇Government policy on employment is essentially operating in three different universes.
1) Universe one: higher minimum wage, day one SSP, essentially a bunch of disincentives to hire people with gaps in the CV
2) the active reform agenda of the DWP
3) random cuts fed into the OBR’s maw
1) Universe one: higher minimum wage, day one SSP, essentially a bunch of disincentives to hire people with gaps in the CV
2) the active reform agenda of the DWP
3) random cuts fed into the OBR’s maw
This shift in Jobcentre culture & priorities would be very welcome, but the positive agenda set out in last year's DWP White Paper is going to be so much harder to realise in the context of the benefit cuts & increased conditionality announced since then www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Jobcentres will no longer force people into ‘any job’ available, minister says
Alison McGovern promises long-term career support in wake of Labour’s significant cuts to disability benefits
www.theguardian.com
May 29, 2025 at 8:06 AM
👇Government policy on employment is essentially operating in three different universes.
1) Universe one: higher minimum wage, day one SSP, essentially a bunch of disincentives to hire people with gaps in the CV
2) the active reform agenda of the DWP
3) random cuts fed into the OBR’s maw
1) Universe one: higher minimum wage, day one SSP, essentially a bunch of disincentives to hire people with gaps in the CV
2) the active reform agenda of the DWP
3) random cuts fed into the OBR’s maw
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It's that time of year where social policy grads and postgrads might be looking for jobs etc. Here's a list of job adverts and sites to share with your students, doctoral researchers, colleagues, or perhaps for yourselves if you're looking for a move ;)
May 26, 2025 at 8:04 AM
It's that time of year where social policy grads and postgrads might be looking for jobs etc. Here's a list of job adverts and sites to share with your students, doctoral researchers, colleagues, or perhaps for yourselves if you're looking for a move ;)
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Starmer’s “remarks are disgraceful. They are damaging in part because they validate the rhetoric and dishonesty of both Reform and the Conservatives. But, incredibly, they are also seriously damaging for the Labour govt itself”
V good, clear-sighted analysis
mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/05/star...
V good, clear-sighted analysis
mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/05/star...
Starmer’s Disgraceful and Damaging Remarks
I’m on holiday, and wasn’t going to write a blog post this week. But after a splendid day out on the Northumbrian coast I made the mistake...
mainlymacro.blogspot.com
May 14, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Starmer’s “remarks are disgraceful. They are damaging in part because they validate the rhetoric and dishonesty of both Reform and the Conservatives. But, incredibly, they are also seriously damaging for the Labour govt itself”
V good, clear-sighted analysis
mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/05/star...
V good, clear-sighted analysis
mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/05/star...
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"Two-thirds of workers (66.8%) have been employed in zero-hour contracts for more than a year and would be eligible to get guaranteed hours if they wish." (7/7)
May 13, 2025 at 11:30 AM
"Two-thirds of workers (66.8%) have been employed in zero-hour contracts for more than a year and would be eligible to get guaranteed hours if they wish." (7/7)
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Fantastic column by @sarahoconnorft.ft.com on the consequences of the UK's experiment with changing the minimum wage:
The minimum wage is now coming for white-collar work
It’s not destroying jobs but it is catching up with the lower rungs of graduate roles
www.ft.com
May 13, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Fantastic column by @sarahoconnorft.ft.com on the consequences of the UK's experiment with changing the minimum wage:
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Our 4th Legal hub training session has arrived!
Join our Head of Employment Dr Sarmila Bose to find out how Employment Tribunals work, what a good case looks like, and the additional challenges visa sponsorship creates.
🎟️Tickets are free for small charities
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-fight-...?
Join our Head of Employment Dr Sarmila Bose to find out how Employment Tribunals work, what a good case looks like, and the additional challenges visa sponsorship creates.
🎟️Tickets are free for small charities
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-fight-...?
April 30, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Our 4th Legal hub training session has arrived!
Join our Head of Employment Dr Sarmila Bose to find out how Employment Tribunals work, what a good case looks like, and the additional challenges visa sponsorship creates.
🎟️Tickets are free for small charities
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-fight-...?
Join our Head of Employment Dr Sarmila Bose to find out how Employment Tribunals work, what a good case looks like, and the additional challenges visa sponsorship creates.
🎟️Tickets are free for small charities
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-fight-...?
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The list of speakers is now available online!
Book now and join leading Social Policy scholars from across the UK discussing key policy areas under the broader theme "One year of Labour Government and its impact on Social Policy". Follow the link for info.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/social-pol...
Book now and join leading Social Policy scholars from across the UK discussing key policy areas under the broader theme "One year of Labour Government and its impact on Social Policy". Follow the link for info.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/social-pol...
Social Policy and Society Annual Event
Social Policy and Society is an international academic journal by the UK Social Policy Association (SPA) - Join us for our annual event
www.eventbrite.co.uk
May 7, 2025 at 6:34 AM
The list of speakers is now available online!
Book now and join leading Social Policy scholars from across the UK discussing key policy areas under the broader theme "One year of Labour Government and its impact on Social Policy". Follow the link for info.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/social-pol...
Book now and join leading Social Policy scholars from across the UK discussing key policy areas under the broader theme "One year of Labour Government and its impact on Social Policy". Follow the link for info.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/social-pol...