I am an anthropologist of development turned social protection scholar. My work ethnographically examines the governance of exploitative, ‘indecent’ and ‘unfree’ labour and in particular the various forms of it targeted for eradication by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It further looks at innovative forms of labour and social protection – most notably Unconditional Basic Income (UBI) combined with participatory forms of community organising – and explores the intersection of these interventions with various public policy challenges. I co-lead two large international policy experiments looking at this combination, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and Hyderabad, India: see Clarissa Global and Work Free

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I am an interdisciplinary researcher working across across economics, politics, and social policy. My doctorate explored the political feasibility of basic income in high-income countries and my postdoctoral research to date has examined the case for basic income from a macroeconomic and political economy perspective, drawing on trends in the labour share, technological change and household debt. I lead the Bath UBI Beacon’s workstream on The Future of Work and the UBIdata knowledge repository project.

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I am a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Politics. I work in the area of ecological politics.  My areas of research interests include Climate Justice, Just Transitions, Social Movements and Contestation, Political Rhetoric, and Green Political Theory. I lead the UBI and Climate Change strand of the Beacon’s work.

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I am a demographer and social statistician working on issues affecting low- and middle-income countries.  My main research interests include menstruation, son preference, fertility transition, sexual and reproductive health, violence against women, and gender statistics.  I have expertise in the demography of South Asia, Latin America, and Africa, with a particular focus on Nepal. Currently, I am leading a 5-year UKRI-funded project on menstrual justice in low- and middle-income countries (www.mejara-project.com). We are working with partners in Nepal and Guatemala to understand menstrual justice in different contexts and improve the experience of menstruation for all, especially marginalised adolescents.

I am the Honorary Secretary of the British Society for Population Studies and welcome enquiries about demographic topics as well as menstruation. I lead the UBI and Health strand of the Beacon’s work.

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is chair of BIEN (Basic Income Earth Network) and coordinator of the Indian Network on Basic Income (INBI). He is co-author of the book Basic Income: A Transformative Policy for India. He was the research director of the Madhya Pradesh Basic Income pilot project (2011 to 2014) and the host of the BIEN World Congress in Hyderabad (2019). He currently co-directs the WorkFREE project led by the Bath UBI Beacon. Simultaneously, Sarath also directs a Basic Income and Care micro pilot project with transgender persons in Hyderabad. Click here to watch Sarath Davala’s lecture at FRIBIS Annual Conference 2022 at the University of Freiburg.

I’m a researcher in social policy and development, and social entrepreneur with many years of experience in working with vulnerable and marginalised populations around the world. I have been involved in basic income research and activism for many years. I was the Founder Editor for emergencybasicincome.com, which aimed to collectivise and assist human rights and basic income advocates from around the world in campaigning for emergency cash support during the pandemic. I am currently at Cardiff University working on the evaluation of the Basic Income Pilot being run for the Welsh Government. My doctoral research at the University of Bath is studying the effects of a Basic Income ‘Plus’ Pilot on experiences of dignity, freedom and decent work for the urban poor in south India. 

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My research concerns the socio-ecological credentials of basic income and its compatibility with a degrowth transition. I’m currently working on several papers, including one which examines the role of UBI in satisfying human needs, alongside the HudsonUP pilot team; a laboratory experiment which is focusing on UBI’s ability to facilitate sustainable consumption choices; and a review of degrowth compatible options for funding a UBI. I am also involved with the WorkFREE pilot project in Hyderabad.

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Professor Lorraine Whitmarsh, MBE, is an environmental psychologist, specialising in perceptions and behaviour in relation to climate change, based in the Department of Psychology, University of Bath. She is Director of the ESRC-funded UK Centre for Climate Change and Social Transformations (CAST).

She regularly advises governmental and other organisations on low-carbon behaviour change and climate change communication, was one of the expert leads for Climate Assembly UK, and Lead Author for IPCC’s Working Group II Sixth Assessment Report. Her research projects have included studies of meat consumption, energy efficiency behaviours, waste reduction and carrier bag reuse, perceptions of smart technologies and electric vehicles, low-carbon lifestyles, and responses to climate change.

Dr Paul Bain is a Reader in social psychology in the Department of Psychology at the University of Bath. He is interested in how psychological factors can help us understand support/opposition to social policies and innovations promoting more sustainable living. He has a particular interest in beliefs about the future of society – how policies and innovations are expected to impact people’s character and how society will function, including cross-cultural comparisons. Some specific topics he investigates are the extent of people’s economic wants, and public attitudes to universal basic income, degrowth, and three-day work weeks.  He also examines public views about trade-offs between different aspects of sustainability, such as whether people think environmental, economic and social sustainability are consistent or in conflict.

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Bain, P. G., & Bongiorno, R. (2022). Evidence from 33 countries challenges the assumption of unlimited wants. Nature Sustainability, 5, 669-673. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-022-00902-y

Bain, P. G., Kroonenberg, P. M., Johansson, L.-O., Milfont, T. L., Crimston, C. R., Kurz, T., Bushina, E., Calligaro, C., Demarque, C., Guan, Y., & Park, J. (2019). Public views of the Sustainable Development Goals across countries. Nature Sustainability, 2, 819-825. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-019-0365-4

Bain, P. G., Hornsey, M. J., Bongiorno, R., Kashima, Y., & Crimston, D. (2013). Collective futures: How projections about the future of society are related to actions and attitudes supporting social change. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 39(4), 523-539. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167213478200

Bain, P. G., Milfont, T. L., Kashima, Y., & et al. (2016). Co-benefits of addressing climate change can motivate action around the world. Nature Climate Change, 6, 154-157. https://doi.org/10.1038/NCLIMATE2814

Bain, P. G., Bongiorno, R., Tinson, K., Heanue, A., Gómez, Á., Guan, Y., Lebedeva, N., Kashima, E., González, R., Chen, S. X., Blumen, S., & Kashima, Y. (2023). Worldviews about societal change: Their structure and their implications for understanding responses to sustainability, technology, and political change. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 26, 504-535. https://doi.org/10.1111/ajsp.12574

“A,Politics and International Relations Bsc student at the University of Bath. Interested in how UBI could be used in the future in regard to automation job losses and its impact on leisure with a particular interest in its effect as a peacebuilding tool.”

I am a doctoral student in SPS researching women’s experiences of the WorkFREE Universal Basic Income (UBI) project in Hyderabad, India in order to inform what might constitute a feminist UBI and contribute to realising the potential transformative impacts of Universal Basic Income for women and those facing other intersectional inequalities. I am a member of the Frieberg Institute of Basic Income Studies (FRIBIS) gender team. My research interests also include feminist and decolonising methodologies, participatory methods, and gender in a development context. 

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I research in two broad areas: politics and contemporary history in the UK; and public policy, particularly social policy. I have overall responsibility for the research projects at the Institute for Policy Research and lead on research into Universal Basic Income and the political economy of welfare state reform. I am also currently working in a consortium researching urban development and public health. 

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I am a political theorist turned public policy scholar who has specialised in the political economy of basic income. I am a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Policy Research at Bath and a Docent at Tampere University. Previously I was a visiting professor at the Götz Werner Chair of Economic Policy & Constitutional Economic Theory, University of Freiburg and worked at research institutions in Latvia, Canada, Finland, Spain, Ireland and the UK. I have published extensively on the politics of basic income and am the co-editor of four volumes and is also a founding editor (with Karl Widerquist) of the interdisciplinary journal, Basic Income Studies. I am currently working on research projects exploring the policy impact of the recent wave of basic income experiments and examining the role of basic income in emergency situations. I am the lead project coordinator of the UBIdata project, working in close collaboration with the Bath UBI Beacon.

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I’m an undergraduate student in Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Bath with an interest in human needs, and an eagerness to support the international development of Universal Basic Income as a provider for such.

I am currently a Social Protection Policy Officer in the Universal Social Protection Department of the International Labour Organization. I am one of the lead authors and co-coordinators of the ILO’s World Social Protection Report. I also work on promoting social protection for children where I have worked closely with Save the Children and UNICEF to develop the Global Child Benefits tracker. Previously, I worked for UNICEF’s Social Inclusion and Policy Section, for BRAC and the International Social Security Association. Prior to my UN career I worked as a lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London and the University of Greenwich, where I taught political theory and sociology. My social policy research interests and publications have focused on social protection during the financial crisis and pandemic, universal child benefits, debates on graduation, child labour, universal basic income and emergency basic income. I hold a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Northampton and a Master’s degree in Critical Theory from the University of Nottingham. My academic interests have focussed on post-Marxist thought, political ecology, and on the work of André Gorz and Zygmunt Bauman.

Disclaimer: The responsibility for opinions expressed in my capacity as a member of the Bath UBI Beacon rests solely with myself and dissemination does not constitute an endorsement by the International Labour Office of the opinions expressed.

Diana is a doctoral candidate at the University of Vienna researching basic income as a complement to traditional development and peacebuilding efforts, with a focus on its potential for social cohesion. In the past, she has worked for international and development organisations, including the United Nations Secretariat, UNIDO, and the French Development Agency in Damascus, New York, and Vienna. She continues her engagement with the UN as UN Liaison for the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN). She can be reached at diana.bashur@basicincome.org 

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