TY - JOUR
T1 - Designing basic income pilots for community development
T2 - what are the key community concerns? Evidence from citizen engagement in Northern England
AU - Howard, Neil
AU - Gregory, Grace
AU - Johnson, Elliott Aidan
AU - Goodman, Cleo
AU - Coates, Jonathan
AU - Robson, Ian
AU - Pickett, Kate E.
AU - Johnson, Matthew T
N1 - Funding information: This work was supported by the NIHR (22/38 Application Development Award (ADA): Universal Basic Income. Grant number: NIHR154451). Neil Howard’s time was further supported by European Research Council Starting Grant 805425, while Grace Gregory benefitted from a University of Bath Centre for Development Studies Practicum. Kate Pickett was supported by the UK Prevention Research Partnership (MR/S037527/1) collaboration, ActEarly. UKPRP is funded by the British Heart Foundation, Cancer Research UK, Chief Scientist Ofce of the Scottish Government Health and Social Care Directorates, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, Economic and Social Research Council, Health and Social Care Research and Development Division (Welsh Government), Medical Research Council, National Institute for Health Research, Natural Environment Research Council, Public Health Agency (Northern Ireland), The Health Foundation and Wellcome. The authors would like to acknowledge Anne Corrigan, of Big Local Central Jarrow, and the participants in the Citizen Engagement Workshop for their time, insight, and expertise on the community of Jarrow.
PY - 2023/10/11
Y1 - 2023/10/11
N2 - Policymakers worldwide are realising that traditional welfare systems need modernisation. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, and with economic, ecological, and social crises intensifying, these systems are being exposed as inefficient, ineffective, and unjust. Policymakers have therefore begun exploring Universal Basic Income (UBI) as a potential alternative. This is leading to rising interest in basic income trials, with pilots proposed or in the pipeline in many countries, including Scotland and Wales. However, pilots are often designed without meaningful community participation, which raises significant ethical and practical concerns. Through a series of qualitative workshops in Jarrow, one of the more deprived areas in the UK and an archetypal target for ‘Levelling Up’ policy, we explored and categorized local concerns, hopes, and suggestions for piloting basic income in the area. This article presents those findings and thereby builds the knowledge base around community perspectives on local basic income pilots.
AB - Policymakers worldwide are realising that traditional welfare systems need modernisation. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, and with economic, ecological, and social crises intensifying, these systems are being exposed as inefficient, ineffective, and unjust. Policymakers have therefore begun exploring Universal Basic Income (UBI) as a potential alternative. This is leading to rising interest in basic income trials, with pilots proposed or in the pipeline in many countries, including Scotland and Wales. However, pilots are often designed without meaningful community participation, which raises significant ethical and practical concerns. Through a series of qualitative workshops in Jarrow, one of the more deprived areas in the UK and an archetypal target for ‘Levelling Up’ policy, we explored and categorized local concerns, hopes, and suggestions for piloting basic income in the area. This article presents those findings and thereby builds the knowledge base around community perspectives on local basic income pilots.
KW - Basic Income
KW - UBI
KW - community development
KW - pilots
KW - Levelling up
KW - citizen engagement
U2 - 10.1080/26883597.2023.2269483
DO - 10.1080/26883597.2023.2269483
M3 - Article
SN - 2688-3597
SP - 1
EP - 17
JO - Local Development and Society
JF - Local Development and Society
ER -