The Everyday Austerity Project: Shaping welfare policy and practice and shifting public understanding of the everyday impacts of austerity in the UK

Impact: Societal impacts, Political impacts, Awareness and understanding

Narrative

University of Manchester research into the impacts of austerity on everyday life has challenged the perception that austerity is only an economic and political condition. By improving understanding of austerity and informing the work of key influential organisations (including Citizen’s Advice, Manchester City Council and Department for Work and Pensions), the research has:
1.influenced policy-making on flexible and informal childcare, families, welfare and austerity, at UK local and national scales;
2.invigorated creative ethnographic practice for organisations concerned with poverty reduction, which has led to sustained organisational change;
3.shaped public understanding of how austerity is 'lived' in everyday life.
Impact date2015 → 2020
Category of impactSocietal impacts, Political impacts, Awareness and understanding

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