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Biography
Mark Simpson joined the School of Law at Ulster University as PhD candidate in 2012. Since 2016 he has been a Lecturer in Law and Course Director of LLB programmes at the Magee campus.
Mark undertakes interdisciplinary research in social justice, with a focus on social security law. He is particularly interested in the relationship between poverty, welfare conditionality – the increasing demands placed on benefit claimants – and the UK’s human rights obligations, as well as the constitutional tensions created when central government welfare ideology conflicts with those of devolved administrations.
Current research projects focus on the use of Scotland’s new devolved social security powers to protect the dignity of claimants (funder: Equality and Human Rights Commission) and legal issues associated with poverty and destitution (funders: Joseph Rowntree Foundation/Legal Education Foundation). Mark is also a co-convenor of the stream on Social Rights, Citizenship and the Welfare State at the Socio-Legal Studies Association’s annual conference.
Prospective PhD students with projects in the fields of Law and Social Justice (social security law/welfare reform, citizenship rights or poverty and destitution), Public Law (devolution or equality law) or human rights law (equality and socio-economic rights) are invited to make contact to discuss their ideas.
Previously, Mark studied Law with Politics at undergraduate level at Queen’s University Belfast, where he also completed an LLM in Environmental Law and Sustainable Development.
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Research Output
Conceptualising dignity in the context of social security: bottom-up and top-down perspectives
Patrick, R. & Simpson, M., 13 Aug 2019, In : Social Policy and Administration. p. 1-16 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Open Access
Conditionality, discretion and TH Marshall’s ‘right to welfare’
Fitzpatrick, C., McKeever, G. & Simpson, M., 4 Sep 2019, In : Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law. 41, 4, p. 445-462 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Discrimination in death? Unmarried couples and bereavement benefits
Simpson, M., 22 Mar 2019, In : Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law. 41, 2, p. 218-221 4 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate
Open Access
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From principles to practice: social security in the Scottish laboratory of democracy
Simpson, M., McKeever, G. & Gray, A., 12 Mar 2019, In : Journal of Social Security Law. 26, 1, p. 13-31 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Open Access
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Northern Ireland Affairs Committee and Work and Pensions Committee joint inquiry into welfare policy in Northern Ireland: Joint submission from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, University of York and Ulster University: Interim report on universal credit in Northern Ireland appended
Simpson, M., Patrick, R. & Porter, I., 5 Jun 2019, 34 p.Research output: Other contribution
Open Access
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Activities
Advisory Group meeting for CPAG's LEF funded project on Access to Justice and Digitalisation in UC
Grainne Mc Keever (Participant), Mark Simpson (Participant)23 Jan 2020
Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participating in a conference, workshop, ...
Universal credit in Northern Ireland: stakeholder engagement event
Grainne Mc Keever (Chair), Mark Simpson (Organiser), Ruth Patrick (Organiser)12 Feb 2020
Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participating in a conference, workshop, ...
Socio Legal Studies Association annual conference 2019
Mark Simpson (Organiser), Ciara Fitzpatrick (Organiser), Jed Meers (Organiser)3 Apr 2019 → 5 Apr 2019
Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Organising a conference, workshop, ...
Universal credit in Northern Ireland: some preliminary findings
Mark Simpson (Speaker)4 Apr 2019
Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation
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Social Policy Association annual conference
Mark Simpson (Participant), Rita Griffiths (Organiser)8 Jul 2019 → 10 Jul 2019
Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Organising a conference, workshop, ...