Further, Government’s Get Britain Working white paper flags consultations in 2025 on reforming the welfare system. It is key that proposed reforms shift the focus of the Department for Work and and administering welfare conditionality to supporting people into sustained work and incentivising employers to provide more secure jobs.
The Work Foundation at Lancaster University is a india rcs data think tank dedicated to improving working lives in the UK. Our core mission is to widen access to rewarding, high-quality and secure work. We undertake applied quantitative and qualitative research to tackle structural inequalities in the UK labour market and seek to influence government policy and employer practice.
About the author
Rebecca leads the Work Foundation’s research programme on insecure work. She has expertise in precarity, social mobility and working conditions and applies cross-sectional and longitudinal data analysis to important research and policy questions.
Alongside her role at the Work Foundation, she is a PhD candidate at Queen Mary, University of London, conducting an ESRC-funded study on the impact of precarious work on life course employment trajectories. Previously, she worked at Eurofound in Dublin.