Social Policy Research Interests
- Poverty, social security and the labour market
- Comparative social policy
- Understandings and perceptions of human need
- Jacqueline will be co-editing a special edition of the European Journal of Social Security on 'Child maintenance policies in different welfare states' which is due for publication in early 2013.
Current Welfare and Employment Research Projects
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Social Policy Advisory Positions
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Member, Editorial Board of the journal Benefits - the journal of poverty and social justice
- Member, White Rose Partnership on Welfare to Work for Claimants of Disability Benefits
Jacqueline Davidson's Conference Presentations
Jacqueline Davidson's Recent Publications
2012
Evaluation of the Fit for Work Service Pilots: First year report, 2012
Hillage, J. (with others including Davidson, J., Irvine, A., Sainsbury, R. and Weston, K.), Department for Work and Pensions Research Report, no. 792.
2011
A Qualitative Study Exploring Employers' Recruitment Behaviour and Decisions: Small and medium enterprises, 2011
Davidson, J., Department for Work and Pensions Research Report, no. 754.
A qualitative study exploring employers' recruitment behaviour and decisions: small and medium enterprises, 2011
Davidson, J., Department for Work and Pensions Research Summary, Department for Work and Pensions.
Personal Health Budgets: Early experiences of budget holders: Fourth interim report, 2011
Irvine, A., Davidson, J., Glendinning, C., Jones, K., Forder, J., Caiels, J., Welch, E., Windle, K., Dolan, P. and King, D., Department of Health.
The Cost of Implementing Personal Health Budgets: [Third interim report], 2011
Jones, K., Forder, J., Caiels, J., Welch, E., Windle, K., Davidson, J., Dolan, P., Glendinning, C., Irvine, A. and King, D., PSSRU Discussion Paper.
Complex families and equality in child support obligations: a comparative policy analysis, 2011
Meyer, D. R., Skinner, C. and Davidson, J., Children and Youth Services Review, 33, 10, 1804-1812.
2010
Experiences of Implementing Personal Health Budgets: 2nd interim report, 2010
Jones, K., Welch, E., Caiels, J., Windle, K., Forder, J., Davidson, J., Dolan, P., Glendinning, C., Irvine, A. and King, D., PSSRU Discussion Paper, 2747/2.
Employability trajectories among new claimants of Incapacity Benefit, 2010
Kemp, P.A. and Davidson, J., Policy Studies, 31, 2, 203-221.
Provider-led Pathways: Experiences and views of Condition Management Programmes, 2010
Nice, K. and Davidson, J., Department for Work and Pensions Research Report, No. 644.
Provider-led Pathways: Experiences and views of Condition Management Programmes, 2010
Nice, K. and Davidson, J., Department for Work and Pensions Research Summary, Department for Work and Pensions.
2009
Sanctions for non-recovery of child maintenance in the United Kingdom, 2009
Davidson, J., pp.69-82 in I. Curry-Sumner and C. Skinner (eds.) Persistent Problems, Finding Solutions: Child maintenance in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, Wolf Legal Publishers.
Gender differences among new claimants of incapacity benefits, 2009
Kemp, P.A. and Davidson, J., Journal of Social Policy, 38, 4, 589-606.
Provider-led Pathways: Experiences and views of early implementation, 2009
Nice, K., Davidson, J. and Sainsbury, R., Department for Work and Pensions Research Report, No. 595.
Recent trends in child maintenance schemes in 14 countries, 2009
Skinner, C. and Davidson, J., International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family, 23, 1, 25-52.
2008
Sickness benefits in a polarised labour market, 2008
Davidson, J. and Kemp, P. A., Benefits, 16, 3, 225-233.
Reporting Changes in Circumstances: Tackling error in the Housing Benefit system - standard Housing Benefit cases, 2008
Davidson, J. and Sainsbury, R., Department for Work and Pensions Research Report, 523.
Reporting changes in circumstances: tackling error in the Housing Benefit system - standard housing benefit cases , 2008
Davidson, J. and Sainsbury, R., Department for Work and Pensions Research Summary, 523, Corporate Document Services.
Reporting Changes in Circumstances: Tackling error in the benefit system, 2008
Irvine, A., Davidson, J. and Sainsbury, R., Department for Work and Pensions Research Report, No. 497.
Reporting changes in circumstances: Tackling error in the benefit system, 2008
Irvine, A., Davidson, J. and Sainsbury, R., Department for Work and Pensions Research Summary, No. 497, Corporate Document Services.
Routes onto Incapacity Benefit: Findings from a follow-up survey of recent claimants, 2008
Kemp, P.A. and Davidson, J., Department for Work and Pensions Research Report, No. 516.
Routes onto Incapacity Benefit: Findings from a follow-up survey of recent claimants, 2008
Kemp, P.A. and Davidson, J., Department for Work and Pensions Research Summary, 516, Corporate Document Services.
Routes onto Incapacity Benefit: Findings from a survey of recent claimants, 2008
Kemp, P.A. and Davidson, J., Department for Work and Pensions Research Report, vol. 469.
Routes onto Incapacity Benefit: Findings from a survey of recent claimants, 2008
Kemp, P.A. and Davidson, J., Department for Work and Pensions Research Summary, 469, Corporate Document Services.
Child Support Policy: An international perspective (Chapter 1), 2008
Skinner, C., Bradshaw, J. and Davidson, J., Luxembourg Income Study Working Paper, No. 478.
2007
Child Support Policy: An international perspective, 2007
Skinner, C., Bradshaw, J. and Davidson, J., Department for Work and Pensions Research Report, vol. 405.
2006
Non-employment and the welfare state: the United Kingdom and Germany compared, 2006
Clasen, J., Davidson, J., Ganssmann, H. and Mauer, A., Journal of European Social Policy, 16, 2, 134-54.
From work to incapacity benefits: ill health, skills, stress and insecurity, 2006
Davidson, J., Benefits, 14, 3, 191-98.
Routes onto Incapacity Benefits: Findings from qualitative research, 2006
Sainsbury, R. and Davidson, J., Department for Work and Pensions Research Report, vol. 350.
Routes onto incapacity benefits: findings from qualitative research, 2006
Sainsbury, R. and Davidson, J., Department for Work and Pensions Research Summary, 350, Corporate Document Services.
Further publications
Davidson, J. (2007) Routes to employment for administrators of discretionary payments within social assistance schemes in Britain and the Netherlands, European Journal of Social Security, 8, 4, 341-60.
Davidson, J. (2007) Perceptions of commercialised social introduction services amongst women, in Casey, E. and Martens, M., Gender and Consumption: Domestic Cultures and the Commercialisation of Everyday Life, Ashgate, Hampshire, pp. 97-108.
Stalker, K., Davidson, J., MacDonald, C. and Innes, A. (2006) A Scoping Study on the Needs of, and Services to, Younger Disabled People Including Those With Early Onset Dementia, in Scotland. Scottish Executive Social Research (external site)
Davidson, J. (2005) Notions of need in the administration of discretionary social assistance payments in Britain and the Netherlands, Zeitschrift fur Sozialreform, 51. Jahrgang (2005), Heft 1, S. 40-63.
Contact
Social Policy Research Unit
University of York
Heslington
York
YO10 5DD
Telephone: 01904 321951
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