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  1. What drives support for largescale housing reform? Mixed-methods survey data from the UK indicates importance of socioeconomic status over demographic characteristics

    Article • International Journal of Housing Policy, February 2026, Taylor & Francis

    Elliott Aidan Johnson

  2. UK resident preferences on tax reform: survey-based evidence suggests support for progressive change in the run up to the 2024 General Election

    Article • Journal of Social Policy, February 2026, Cambridge University Press

    Elliott Aidan Johnson

  3. Reliability and affordability: understanding the reasons for UK voters’ support for nationalisation and public control

    Article • Transport Policy, February 2026, Elsevier

    Elliott Aidan Johnson

  4. Reducing avoidable deaths and energy poverty: Conjoint experimental survey evidence on United Kingdom voters' priorities for energy policy

    Article • Energy Research & Social Science, February 2026, Elsevier

    Elliott Aidan Johnson

  5. Why is income volatility associated with poor health? Longitudinal evidence from the UK and France

    Article • SSM - Population Health, December 2025, Elsevier

    Elliott Aidan Johnson

  6. What does transformation in Higher Education research culture look like? Evidence from action research within a diverse post-1992 department

    Article • Routledge Open Research, October 2025, Faculty of 1000, Ltd.

    Elliott Aidan Johnson

  7. Exploring UK residents’ views on substantive education reform: adversarially co-produced narratives indicate fluidity in support

    Article • Political Research Exchange, October 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Elliott Aidan Johnson

  8. Welfare system is a key public health measure

    Article • BMJ, September 2025, BMJ

    Elliott Aidan Johnson

  9. What support is there in the UK for renationalisation of public utilities? Evidence on drivers and fluidity of support via adversarial narrative co-production

    Article • Next Research, September 2025, Elsevier

    Elliott Aidan Johnson

  10. The Public Policy Preference Calculator (TriplePC): Developing a comprehensive welfare policy microsimulation

    Article • August 2025, International Microsimulation Association

    Elliott Aidan Johnson

  11. What principles ought to underpin ‘Radical Prevention Funds’? Ten principles capable of addressing social determinants to promote public health

    Article • Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, August 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Elliott Aidan Johnson

  12. Does food insecurity cause anxiety and depression? Evidence from the changing cost of living study

    Article • PLOS Mental Health, July 2025, PLOS

    Elliott Aidan Johnson

  13. Rethinking Englishness: deep historical analysis of working-class forms emphasises the importance of redistribution for the left

    Article • Routledge Open Research, June 2025, Faculty of 1000, Ltd.

    Elliott Aidan Johnson

  14. Why is income volatility associated with poor health? Longitudinal evidence from the UK and France

    Article • June 2025, Center for Open Science

    Elliott Aidan Johnson

  15. What Do People Want From a Welfare System? Conjoint Survey Evidence From UK Adults

    Article • Poverty & Public Policy, June 2025, Wiley

    Elliott Aidan Johnson

  16. Why is income volatility associated with poor health? Longitudinal evidence from the UK and France

    Article • May 2025, Center for Open Science

    Elliott Aidan Johnson

  17. Anxiety, Insecurity, and Redistribution in the UK ‘Red Wall’: Have Policy Preferences Changed Since the COVID-19 Pandemic?

    Article • International Journal of Politics Culture and Society, May 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Elliott Aidan Johnson

  18. Rethinking Englishness: deep historical analysis of working-class forms emphasises the importance of redistribution for the left

    Article • Routledge Open Research, April 2025, Faculty of 1000, Ltd.

    Elliott Aidan Johnson

  19. Climate change mitigation and workers’ interests: why framing a Green New Deal as redistributive and security-enhancing is key to popularity

    Article • F1000Research, April 2025, Faculty of 1000, Ltd.

    Elliott Aidan Johnson

  20. Why Britain needs a new Beveridge and why politicians need to defer to the evidence

    Article • Contemporary Social Science, April 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Elliott Aidan Johnson

  21. Examining the relationship between income and both mental and physical health among adults in the UK: Analysis of 12 waves (2009–2022) of Understanding Society

    Article • PLOS One, March 2025, PLOS

    Elliott Aidan Johnson

  22. Does food insecurity cause anxiety and depression? Evidence from the Changing Cost of Living Study

    Article • February 2025, Center for Open Science

    Elliott Aidan Johnson

  23. Estimating the effects of Basic Income schemes on mental and physical health among adults aged 18 and above in the UK: A microsimulation study

    Article • PLOS Mental Health, December 2024, PLOS

    Elliott Aidan Johnson

  24. Prospective Health Impacts of a Universal Basic Income: Evidence from Community Engagement in South Tyneside, United Kingdom

    Article • International Journal of Social Determinants of Health and Health Services, August 2024, SAGE Publications

    Elliott Aidan Johnson

  25. Breaking the Overton Window: on the need for adversarial co-production

    Article • Evidence & Policy, August 2024, Policy Press

    Elliott Aidan Johnson

  26. A local authority-led transition to net zero: Lessons for Wales from other countries and regions

    Article • July 2024, Wales Centre for Public Policy - Cardiff University

    Elliott Aidan Johnson

  27. Short‐term changes in financial situation have immediate mental health consequences: Implications for social policy

    Article • Social Policy and Administration, July 2024, Wiley

    Elliott Aidan Johnson

  28. After nudging: the ethical challenge of post-pandemic policymaking in the UK

    Article • Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, March 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Elliott Aidan Johnson

  29. How Far Can Interventions to Increase Income Improve Adolescent Mental Health? Evidence From the UK Millennium Cohort Study and Next Steps

    Article • Journal of Prevention and Health Promotion, January 2024, SAGE Publications

    Elliott Aidan Johnson

  30. Short-term changes in financial situation have immediate mental health consequences: Implications for social policy

    Article • November 2023, Center for Open Science

    Elliott Aidan Johnson

  31. Designing basic income pilots for community development: What are the key community concerns? Evidence from citizen engagement in Northern England

    Article • Local Development & Society, October 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Elliott Aidan Johnson

  32. Quantifying the mental health and economic impacts of prospective Universal Basic Income schemes among young people in the UK: a microsimulation modelling study

    Article • BMJ Open, October 2023, BMJ

    Elliott Aidan Johnson, Dr Martin O'Flaherty

  33. What do people want from a welfare system? Conjoint survey evidence from UK adults

    Article • September 2023, Center for Open Science

    Elliott Aidan Johnson

  34. What role do young people believe Universal Basic Income can play in supporting their mental health?

    Article • Journal of Youth Studies, September 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Elliott Aidan Johnson

  35. Building on foundations of evidence and intuition: a reply to commentaries on ‘Fairness, generosity and conditionality in the welfare system: the case of UK disability benefits’ by Elliot Johnson and Daniel Nettle

    Article • Global Discourse, September 2023, Policy Press

    Elliott Aidan Johnson

  36. OP31 Universal basic income and health – strong support and distinctive concerns from a deprived community in NE England

    Article • August 2023, BMJ

    Elliott Aidan Johnson

  37. OP27 What are the impacts of universal basic income on mental health? A microsimulation economic modelling study

    Article • August 2023, BMJ

    Elliott Aidan Johnson

  38. Commissioned Book Review: Matthew Smith, The First Resort: A History of Social Psychiatry in the United States

    Article • Political Studies Review, July 2023, SAGE Publications

    Elliott Aidan Johnson

  39. Can Universal Basic Income work for disabled people? An examination of existing UK organisational and academic positions

    Article • Disability & Society, July 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Elliott Aidan Johnson

  40. Designing a generic, adaptive protocol resource for the measurement of health impact in cash transfer pilot and feasibility studies and trials in high-income countries

    Article • Pilot and Feasibility Studies, March 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Elliott Aidan Johnson

  41. Understanding the relationship between income and mental health among 16- to 24-year-olds: Analysis of 10 waves (2009–2020) of Understanding Society to enable modelling of income interventions

    Article • PLOS One, February 2023, PLOS

    Prof Matthew Thomas Johnson, Elliott Aidan Johnson

  42. Universal Basic Income is affordable and feasible: evidence from UK economic microsimulation modelling1

    Article • Journal of Poverty and Social Justice, February 2023, Policy Press

    Elliott Aidan Johnson, Stewart Lansley

  43. Changing circumstances and new basic premises: turning the affordability and feasibility relationship on its head: a reply to ‘The big tax hikes that make UBI “affordable” could be used to cut poverty in more targeted ways’ by Donald Hirsch1

    Article • Journal of Poverty and Social Justice, February 2023, Policy Press

    Elliott Aidan Johnson

  44. Can the ‘downward spiral’ of material conditions, mental health and faith in government be stopped? Evidence from surveys in ‘red wall’ constituencies

    Article • The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, January 2023, SAGE Publications

    Elliott Aidan Johnson

  45. The Health Case for Basic Income

    Article • January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Elliott Aidan Johnson

  46. Are ‘red wall’ constituencies really opposed to progressive policy? Examining the impact of materialist narratives for Universal Basic Income

    Article • British Politics, October 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Elliott Aidan Johnson

  47. Designing a generic, adaptive protocol resource for the measurement of health impact in cash transfer trials

    Article • May 2022, Research Square

    Elliott Aidan Johnson

  48. Modelling the size, cost and health impacts of universal basic income: What can be done in advance of a trial?

    Article • Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology, April 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Elliott Aidan Johnson

  49. Why has the COVID-19 pandemic increased support for Universal Basic Income?

    Article • Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, March 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Elliott Aidan Johnson

  50. Examining the ethical underpinnings of universal basic income as a public health policy: prophylaxis, social engineering and ‘good’ lives

    Article • Journal of Medical Ethics, January 2021, BMJ

    Elliott Aidan Johnson

  51. Designing trials of Universal Basic Income for health impact: identifying interdisciplinary questions to address

    Article • Journal of Public Health, January 2021, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Elliott Aidan Johnson

  52. We need to introduce Universal Basic Income to reduce the trauma of COVID-19

    Article • Psychological Trauma Theory Research Practice and Policy, August 2020, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Prof Matthew Thomas Johnson, Elliott Aidan Johnson

  53. Why has the COVID-19 pandemic increased support for Universal Basic Income?

    Article • June 2020, Center for Open Science

    Elliott Aidan Johnson

  54. Centrism, ‘expertise’ and the 2019 UK general election: a review of William Davies’s Nervous States: How Feeling Took Over the World

    Article • Global Discourse, May 2020, Policy Press

    Elliott Aidan Johnson

  55. Measuring the health impact of Universal Basic Income as an upstream intervention: holistic trial design that captures stress reduction is essential

    Article • Evidence & Policy, January 2020, Policy Press

    Elliott Aidan Johnson, Prof Matthew Thomas Johnson

  56. Fairness, generosity and conditionality in the welfare system: the case of UK disability benefits

    Article • Global Discourse, January 2020, Policy Press

    Elliott Aidan Johnson

  57. A global physical activity research and practice conference

    Article • Journal of Physical Activity and Health, October 2018, Human Kinetics

    Dr Amir Pakravan, Dr Matthew Mclaughlin, Dr Elizabeth Campbell, Professor Luke Wolfenden, Dr Jenna Hollis, Dr Rachel Sutherland, Karen Gillham, Professor John Wiggers, Dr Nicole Nathan, Tom McKenzie, Dr Jacqueline Louise Mair, Elliott Aidan Johnson

  58. Stress, domination and basic income: considering a citizens’ entitlement response to a public health crisis

    Article • Social Theory & Health, June 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Matthew Thomas Johnson, Elliott Aidan Johnson