Rod Hick
Biographic Data
| ID | 6025941 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rod Hick |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rod |
| FAMILY NAME | Hick |
| SIGNATURE | HICK R |
| AFFILIATIONS | School of Social Sciences Cardiff University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Innovative and ambitious or unrealistic and risky? Initial professional perspectives on the basic income for care leavers in Wales pilot
The Welsh Government’s Basic Income for Care Leavers in Wales pilot has been subject to public and political debate. While proponents applaud the ambitious nature of the policy and its intent to strengthen support for young people leaving care, critics have raised concern about its design and questioned its potential for positive impact. This article contributes to the debate by detailing the views and early experiences of professionals with dire…
Enter the Troika
This paper examines the influence of the Troika on the retrenchment and reform of social security in Ireland during its bailout between 2010 and 2013. To do this, it draws on data from in-depth interviews with senior civil servants and civil society organisation staff who met with the Troika as part of their quarterly missions to Ireland during this period. The key themes which emerged from these interviews include the largely domestic origins of…
Three perspectives on the mismatch between measures of material poverty
The two most prominent measures of material poverty within contemporary European poverty analysis are low income and material deprivation. However, it is by now well-known that these measures identify substantially different people as being poor. In this research note, I seek to demonstrate that there are at least three ways to understand the mismatch between low income and material deprivation, relating to three different forms of identification…
Poverty as Capability Deprivation
Poverty analysis is in the midst of a multidimensional “turn” due, in part, to the growing awareness of the limitations of relative income measures of poverty. In this paper, we argue that the conceptualisation of poverty remains a neglected aspect of this multidimensional turn to date, and demonstrate that the counter-intuitive results which flow from relative income analyses are not problems of measurement, but are entirely consistent with the …
Ethnic minorities, retirement planning and Personal Accounts
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine issues relating to public and private pensions for individuals from some of the major ethnic minority groups in the UK. Design/methodology/approach The paper draws on data from in‐depth interviews and focus groups with 64 respondents from the six largest ethnic minority groups in the UK, as well as from a white British control group. Findings The research found that a belief in the need for retireme…
Three perspectives on the mismatch between measures of material poverty
The two most prominent measures of material poverty within contemporary European poverty analysis are low income and material deprivation. However, it is by now well-known that these measures identify substantially different people as being poor. In this research note, I seek to demonstrate that there are at least three ways to understand the mismatch between low income and material deprivation, relating to three different forms of identification…
Enter the Troika
This paper examines the influence of the Troika on the retrenchment and reform of social security in Ireland during its bailout between 2010 and 2013. To do this, it draws on data from in-depth interviews with senior civil servants and civil society organisation staff who met with the Troika as part of their quarterly missions to Ireland during this period. The key themes which emerged from these interviews include the largely domestic origins of…
Poverty as Capability Deprivation
Poverty analysis is in the midst of a multidimensional “turn” due, in part, to the growing awareness of the limitations of relative income measures of poverty. In this paper, we argue that the conceptualisation of poverty remains a neglected aspect of this multidimensional turn to date, and demonstrate that the counter-intuitive results which flow from relative income analyses are not problems of measurement, but are entirely consistent with the …
Ethnic minorities, retirement planning and Personal Accounts
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine issues relating to public and private pensions for individuals from some of the major ethnic minority groups in the UK. Design/methodology/approach The paper draws on data from in‐depth interviews and focus groups with 64 respondents from the six largest ethnic minority groups in the UK, as well as from a white British control group. Findings The research found that a belief in the need for retireme…
Ethnic minorities, retirement planning and Personal Accounts
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine issues relating to public and private pensions for individuals from some of the major ethnic minority groups in the UK. Design/methodology/approach The paper draws on data from in‐depth interviews and focus groups with 64 respondents from the six largest ethnic minority groups in the UK, as well as from a white British control group. Findings The research found that a belief in the need for retireme…
Poverty as Capability Deprivation
Poverty analysis is in the midst of a multidimensional “turn” due, in part, to the growing awareness of the limitations of relative income measures of poverty. In this paper, we argue that the conceptualisation of poverty remains a neglected aspect of this multidimensional turn to date, and demonstrate that the counter-intuitive results which flow from relative income analyses are not problems of measurement, but are entirely consistent with the …
Three perspectives on the mismatch between measures of material poverty
The two most prominent measures of material poverty within contemporary European poverty analysis are low income and material deprivation. However, it is by now well-known that these measures identify substantially different people as being poor. In this research note, I seek to demonstrate that there are at least three ways to understand the mismatch between low income and material deprivation, relating to three different forms of identification…
Enter the Troika
This paper examines the influence of the Troika on the retrenchment and reform of social security in Ireland during its bailout between 2010 and 2013. To do this, it draws on data from in-depth interviews with senior civil servants and civil society organisation staff who met with the Troika as part of their quarterly missions to Ireland during this period. The key themes which emerged from these interviews include the largely domestic origins of…
Innovative and ambitious or unrealistic and risky? Initial professional perspectives on the basic income for care leavers in Wales pilot
The Welsh Government’s Basic Income for Care Leavers in Wales pilot has been subject to public and political debate. While proponents applaud the ambitious nature of the policy and its intent to strengthen support for young people leaving care, critics have raised concern about its design and questioned its potential for positive impact. This article contributes to the debate by detailing the views and early experiences of professionals with dire…
Economics (5 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Demographic economics (3 works) · Economic growth (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (3 works) · Healthcare innovation and challenges (2 works) · Income, Poverty, and Inequality (2 works) · Poverty (2 works)