Universal Credit

The Lab is conducting a major mixed methods project on how claimants and the public view fair process in Universal Credit. We are also conducting a project on administrative fairness in benefit deductions processes, which impact many welfare recipients.

Project team

• Professor Joe Tomlinson, Professor of Public Law, University of York 
• Dr Jed Meers, Senior Lecturer in Law, University of York
• Professor Simon Halliday, Professor of Socio-legal Studies, University of Strathclyde
• Dr Reuben Binns, Associate Professor of Human Centred Computing, University of Oxford
• Professor Aleksandra Cichocka, Reader in Political Psychology, University of Kent 
• Dr Ben Seyd, Senior Lecturer in Politics, University of Kent 
• Richard Pope, Consultant and former Founding Member of the Government Digital Service
• Izzie Salter, PhD Candidate and Research Assistant, University of York

Impact and engagement

The Lab has been working directly with the Department of Work and Pensions to share the evidence base and insights we are generating. We are also working with the leading welfare charity, Child Poverty Action Group. For our work on deductions, we are partnering with Public Law Project – a national legal charity.

Funding

Our research on Universal Credit is kindly funded by the Nuffield Foundation. Our research on deductions specifically is funded as part of an ESRC White Rose Collaborative Doctoral Award. 

• View our report about Universal Credit.