Our current research

Lead Investigator: Joe Tomlinson

Funder: Nuffield Foundation

Project Aim: To build a novel empirical account of how claimants understand fair process in Universal Credit

Lead Investigator: Joe Tomlinson

Funder: Research England

Project Aim: To understand, through a pilot study on the right to work for asylum seekers, the extent to which public psychology is a constraint on the reform of unjust and inefficient administrative laws, and whether understanding public psychology better can offer new paths to reform

Lead Investigator: Simon Halliday

Funder: Financial Fairness Trust

Research Aim: To build a novel understanding of how claimants understand fair process in adult disability benefits

Lead Investigator: Jed Meers

Funder: The Legal Education Foundation

Research Aim: To understand experiences of welfare fraud reviews and the possibilities of fairer and more effective systems

Lead Investigator: Jed Meers

Funder: NIHR

Research Aim: To build a novel understanding of how claimants understand fair process in social care needs assessments

Lead Investigator: Joe Tomlinson

Funder: ESRC

Research Aim: To develop understanding of the causes and nature of the proliferation of statutory duties to protect the vulnerable in public law, and to identify the questions of whether these duties are making a difference to law and policy implementation

Lead Investigator: Joe Tomlinson

Funder: Leverhulme Trust

Research Aim: To theorise the potential social outcomes of improving fair process in frontline public service delivery

Lead Investigator: Eleana Kasoulide

Research Aim: To investigate how decisions to digitalise public services are made and what structures of accountability apply to such decisions

Lead Investigator: Izzie Salter

Funder: White Rose DTP / ESRC

Research Aim: To investigate experiences of benefit deductions and how underlying legal structures interact with these experiences

Lead Investigator: Li Min Ong

Funder: ESRC

Project aim: To create new understanding of how public sector delays interact with the basic assumptions of administrative law

Lead Investigator: Jed Meers

Funder: Lloyds Bank Foundation

Lead Investigator: Joe Tomlinson

Funder: ESRC IAA

Research Aim: To map the intersections of public law and the failure of government bodies to collect valuable data on service performance and experiences

Lead Investigators: Joe Tomlinson / Brendan McGurk KC

Research Aim: To produce a comprehensive statement of how public law applies to AI use by public authorities, and identify areas of uncertainty

Lead Investigator: Magda Furgalska

Funder: SPARKS

Research Aim: To explore processes around decision-making in respect of mental health detention

Lead Investigator: Omara Dogar

Funder: SPARKS

Research Aim: To explore how the fairness of processes shapes the effectiveness of smoking cessation interventions