Ben Baumberg Geiger
Social policy researcher (though sometimes pretends to be a philosopher), Prof co-leading WelfareExperiences project and kcl.ac.uk/csmh work & welfare strand. Was at @BenBaumberg at the other place.
- Really like this way of doing system maps with experts by experience, and comparing them to system maps generated by experts & policymakers - a really persuasive way of showing what's missed from research/policy ways of thinking
- Reposted by Ben Baumberg GeigerWe asked claimants what was the biggest problem with UC, and one issue came up more than any other ⤵️
- Reposted by Ben Baumberg GeigerA recent cartoon for @newscientist.com. p.s. my new book of science cartoons, ‘Physics for Cats’ is out now. Links at www.tomgauld.com
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- Job opportunity - we need a fab new colleague to do quant research on work, welfare and mental health within @kingscsmh.bsky.social (closes 8 Feb) This is funded until Apr/28, but we'll support you in bids to extend it - please do circulate to suitable ppl! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQD294/p...
- Please do forward on @kingscsmh.bsky.social l @annieirvine.bsky.social @benjaminbarr.bsky.social @heejungchung.bsky.social @jedmeers.bsky.social @martinbaekgaard.bsky.social @jdportes.bsky.social tes.bsky.social - and many thanks!
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- Reposted by Ben Baumberg GeigerYesterday, over 60 of us fr @changingrealities.bsky.social came together in @10dowingstreet.bsky.social for a reception at which the PM & @darrenpjones.bsky.social thanked us for our efforts to push for action on child poverty. Together, we can make change happen. But this is just the beginning.
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- Great permanent job opportunity for interesting health economists in my department at King's College London - please circulate to anyone who might be a good fit! Deadline 8th Jan www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/130565-...
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- 4 jobs in Melbourne around work disability prevention & social insurance - looks like an amazing project, deadline 1 February 2026 careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...
- Very pleased to finally have this OECD working paper out (with the brilliant Chris Prinz)! -> take-home message: **Simple ways of measuring 'disability employment gaps' are often wrong - but better methods are available***
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- Reposted by Ben Baumberg GeigerProud to see the Chancellor directly referencing my research (with @ruthpatrick0.bsky.social & Mary Reader) on the two-child limit. As we wrote then "The two-child limit hasn’t discouraged poorer families from having children; it has simply made families poorer" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
- New post: If disability benefits spending is flat, then welfare spending is probably going down - Some figures to have to hand when looking through the Budget inequalities.substack.com/p/disability...
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- Reposted by Ben Baumberg GeigerThat’s how much the Government spends on welfare, but what do people receive in return? Here we can see a generational shift in the generosity of support over the past two decades. Since 2010, changes to benefits have largely favoured older age groups, while families with children have lost out.
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- Reposted by Ben Baumberg GeigerWhy the two-child limit has to go, in a chart.
- Reposted by Ben Baumberg GeigerCall for papers: Ian Hacking and the Philosophy of Psychiatry. Deadline: 1st February 2026. Guest editors: Şerife Tekin and Jonathan Y. Tsou. Submit your work! think.taylorandfranc... #philsky #philpsy #philsci
- Reposted by Ben Baumberg GeigerGood to see growing support for abduction or 'inference to the best explanation', recently by Spirling and Stewart in @thejop.bsky.social. This is... www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
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- The Mayfield Review gets a lot right, but there's also ways it needs to go further - a response from me and @louisemurphy.bsky.social on the @resolutionfoundation.org blog:
- *Have new WCA claims exploded in the last year?* My new blog post on (another) mess in DWP statistics... inequalities.substack.com/p/have-new-w...
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