Impacts of Welfare Conditionality

Peter Dwyer is Emeritus Professor of Social Policy at the University of York. His research and teaching focuses on social citizenship. He led the large ESRC funded Welfare Conditionality: Sanctions Support and Behaviour Change (2013-2019) project.Lisa Scullion is Professor of Social Policy and Co-Director in the Sustainable Housing and Urban Studies Unit at the University of Salford.Katy Jones is Research Fellow in the Centre for Decent Work and Productivity at Manchester Metropolitan University.Jenny McNeill is Project Manager at Groundswell, and previously worked at the University of Sheffield and University of York on the Welfare Conditionality project. Alasdair B. R. Stewart is Lecturer in Social and Public Policy in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Glasgow.

• 1. Introduction2. Conditionality in the UK Welfare State3. Welfare Conditionality and Behaviour Change4. From Welfare to Work? The Effectiveness of Welfare Conditionality in Moving People into Paid Employment5. Welfare Conditionality and Problematic or Antisocial Behaviour6. Unintended Outcomes? The Wider Impacts of Compulsion and Benefit Sanctions in Social Security7. Ethical Debates8. Conclusions