Also, it was great listening to a thought-provoking plenary by Megan Challis; and to welcome the new members of our Executive Committee.
... see you all in Liverpool in 2026!

@haylesben.bsky.social identifies four key roles / ways of potentially understanding the roles local and devolved welfare play & notes they are not mutually exclusive - compensating, complementing, contesting, challenging (or inspiring)

@haylesben.bsky.social is arguing that there is value in trying to develop a new conceptual framework to understand what is happening in the uk around the changing role of local and devolved welfare

Steph Morris also reinforces how the fear and the possibility of conditionality and sanctions and mandated work reality activities creates anxiety for people, already struggling with their mental health < @easp-spa-2025.bsky.social >

@annieirvine.bsky.social and Cindy Leung point to problems with an over medicalisation of approach within the work capability assessment

Chris Grollman and his team wonder what else might have caused the increase in abortions observed, given that the arrival of the two-child limit wasn’t the cause? Brexit perhaps, they suggest < @easp-spa-2025.bsky.social >

Danni Konstantinidou shares the key takeaway from her analysis of social transfers looming across diverse countries

This is the prize winning Blue Sky #York2025 post! Collect your prize Yukwan!

Lovely that last paper at this year's @easp-spa-2025.bsky.social for me is from one of University of York's doctoral researchers, Danni Konstantinidou looking at short-term and lagged effects of social transfers on poverty & deprivation