Dr Dave Beck

Blogging, YouTubing, Academic Writing, Photography, Podcasts, Interviews & probably more (that's my ADHD) For everything me; See and Subscribe here: linktr.ee/thatsociolog... #UBI, #FoodPoverty, #Poverty, #HigherEducation, #Academic

Because a bunch of anti genocide campaigners have a propensity towards violence? share.google/o6Fn6PakIVg9...

I'm pleased to share our latest publication in Frontiers in Nutrition: Reimagining food security through income security: the potential role of universal basic income in the UK Read it here: www.frontiersin.org/journals/nut... #FoodInsecurity #UBI #SocialPolicy #FoodPoverty

As we are witnessing the impending coronation of the next PM, here I ask - it's Burnham a populist, drawing on northernism. drdavebeck.substack.com/p/from-manch... open.substack.com/pub/drdavebe...

Last week I wrote of the forthcoming 'coronation' of the next PM. This week I ask questions and ask you to think about this as a form of populism 👇 #AndyBurnham as a New form of Populism? open.substack.com/pub/drdavebe...

As a member of #GenerationRent I've finally done the (almost) impossible. I've bought a bloody house!

I’ve spoken with Andy Burnham as part of my work with the UBILab Network and our vision for a Basic Income trial in Greater Manchester. But, as he now stands unposed in his leadership bid, is this more of a coronation, and less of an election open.substack.com/pub/drdavebe...

Documenting austerity's impact on services, food, and inequality is essential because the policy depends on consequences being invisible. When the data is visible, the trade-off is visible: this cut produced this harm. Austerity needs amnesia to survive.

Absolutely! Employment a longer range goal after health, safety, wellbeing.

This new essay revisits my work on the Finnish UBI experiment through a fresh lens. LJ Pearce-Coca brings insights from neurodivergence, to show how unconditional income might not just reduce poverty, but reshape how different minds can flourish within society." open.substack.com/pub/drdavebe...

📢Pay what you feel price🚨 Our new book is available to download. Its nominally 'free', but please consider a contribution. Thanks to Rachel Morris of @cymruconversations.bsky.social for putting this together (and others for contributing)! Please share this payhip.com/b/9eklJ

As the local elections are just around the corner, one of the most pressing issues is still the levels of (food) poverty experienced by millions in the UK. I have a new short article about this here: Please share! #poverty #foodbank #foodpoverty #foodpolicy open.substack.com/pub/drdavebe...

The Overton Window has clearly shifted to the right, as politics of authoritarianism, nationalism, division, etc. seem to dominate voter choice. How far to the right has it moved? Can it ever be brought back to the centre, or, even to the Left? 👇👇 open.substack.com/pub/drdavebe...

I’ll be on a panel in Wigan on 24 April with: 🎬 Ken Loach (Kes, I, Daniel Blake etc) 🥖 Ian Hodson (BFAWU President) ✍️ Maddie Wheeldon Talking social justice, labour, inequality, and lived experience. QR Code below 👇 Looking forward to it ✊ @salforduni.bsky.social

I’ll be on a panel in Wigan on 24 April with: 🎬 Ken Loach (Kes, I, Daniel Blake etc) 🥖 Ian Hodson (BFAWU President) ✍️ Maddie Wheeldon Talking social justice, labour, inequality, and lived experience. QR Code below 👇 Looking forward to it ✊ @salforduni.bsky.social

My article on the socialist origins of the concept “relative poverty” iea.org.uk/on-the-socia...

Neoliberalism, The Great Recession, Brexit, Covid, Cost-of-Living Crisis, Mandelson, Starmer, Farage, and Yaxley-Lennon - It's not about Left or Right Politics, everything is about class, (and we are not in their class), perhaps you should sign this. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75...

Student loans are a financial problem just waiting to happen. It's class warfare, where the poorer you are, the more you pay. Meritocracy is a myth👇 Degrees of Debt: Class, Power, and the UK Tuition Fee Regime open.substack.com/pub/drdavebe...

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How do we make Wales prosperous? By finally playing to our strengths share.google/f0yvtx40MxrR...

New blog post with @drdavebeck.bsky.social and Vanessa Boon making the case for the socio-economic duty to be embedded in the Budget. www.transformingsociety.co.uk/2025/11/24/a...

Looking forward to hearing the budget....? Will this government actually budget for equality? Please read our new blog about this 👇

We're very pleased to announce the launch of our new UBI 101 Toolkit! 🚀 It’s designed to help you feel more confident talking about #UBI, sharing the big ideas behind it, and understanding the direction we’re heading as a network. Link to download and share 👉 www.ubilabnetwork.org/ubi-toolkit

This week sees the launch of the new UBI 101 Toolkit from the @ubilabnetwork.bsky.social. 👇

Last week I was in Birmingham for an awards ceremony. The next morning I had a wander along one of the many canals. Here is a photowalk blog 👇 drdavebeck.substack.com/p/birmingham...

Here's me talking COP www.linkedin.com/posts/univer...

Starmer is a deeply unpopular PM. He purged the left, pandered to the right, and what's it done for the labour movement...? Destroyed it. Pushed many to the Greens and moved those in Wales and Scotland over to independence parties. He needs to be removed www.bbc.com/news/article...

On first 1st, I thought this was satire, but it's not. Woe is me, and the world's smallest violin comes to mind. You (for profiting) & the government ARE to blame. ‘I’m tired of being blamed for Britain’s housing crisis. Landlords aren’t the villains’ share.google/uwP8Wv5OiIVd...

BBC news with a headline which totally disregards the people hurt. But yeah, let's make this all about him 🤬 BBC News - Is this finally rock bottom for Mr Andrew Mountbatten Windsor? www.bbc.com/news/article...

Hey UBI and Bsky friends, I'm working hard between my son and private life. But I have an update on the Basic Income Action site, finalizing Event features and staging for launch. Between sports and politics trending, I need help testing and feedback. 🤞🫠 truistic-teofila-unseparably.ngrok-free.dev

A fresh round of Industrial Action is being balloted for across UK HE. Strike! Strike! Strike! - We Are the University drdavebeck.substack.com/p/strike-str...

3. SED also encourages a rethinking of social housing - assessing how allocation practices can potential reinforce rather than reduce inequality and the need to invest in social housing.

1. the socio-economic duty reinforces the need to measure poverty after housing costs. 2. The duty also requires the removal of the two-child limit.

New post on Transforming Society with @drdavebeck.bsky.social and @VanessaBoon - our argument regarding the socio-economic duty and how it should be drawn upon in developing the child poverty strategy by the UK government. www.transformingsociety.co.uk/2025/10/21/a... Three key take-aways:

Today I'll be speaking at the Salford CVS annual conference about work and it's relationship to research on universal basic income

Whoop Whoop! Just received a book contract from Liverpool Press. Im going to be writing a book about the Poverty Industry!

The fact that he owns a Bentley, paid for by his supporters, should stop them in their tracks. He's bought this with your ££ support. Dictionary definition of a Grifter. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Fix the economy, Starmer. We have no power over changing the economy; to blame universities for its ills and using it to hit us (& get ever more culture warriors on us) is just bullying.

My new chapter on Food & Social Class, available in the Elgar Encyclopedia of Food and Society: www.elgaronline.com/display/book... @salforduni.bsky.social @elgarpublishing.bsky.social

I often visit the pier in Bangor. It looks different today because of #StormAmy however, here is a short photo essay I wrote last week 👇 open.substack.com/pub/drdavebe...

This week’s, we explored Guy Standing’s “Precariat” and how neoliberalism creates insecurity in work, housing, and identity. Students made powerful connections between theory and lived experience. Read more here #Precariat #Neoliberalism #Sociology #Precarity drdavebeck.substack.com/p/teaching-t...

The authoritarian regime rolls in.... BBC News - Keir Starmer to announce plans for digital ID scheme - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Hi all, I have a new regular(ish) blog available based on my research. Please give me a follow for discussions on Sociology, Social Policy, Food Poverty, Universal Basic Income, and much more: drdavebeck.substack.com

New Blog: students on Precarity & Insecure Lives—how neoliberalism produces everyday insecurity. From food banks to gig work, we unpacked the lived realities of precarity. Read it here: drdavebeck.substack.com/p/back-in-th... #neoliberalism #precarity #criticalpedagogy #sociology

You can hide Banksy's work. You can even remove it, but the message is still the same and has been made. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SM5W...

Thanks to @prof-carolynsnell.bsky.social and Lucie Middlemiss for giving me the pleasure of reading and reviewing their new book with Bristol Uni Press @brisunipress.bsky.social

@zackpolanski.bsky.social congratulations Zack!

Thanks to everyone for their support! YouTube tells me that I have Just joined the 100 subscribers on YouTube club. If you have not yet subscribed, please do (or at least refer a friend 🤣). Only another millionbillion to go 👇👇👇👇👇 www.youtube.com/channel/UCB1...