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  1. 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

  2. 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

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

    Article • Evidence & Policy, August 2024, Policy Press

    Elliott Aidan Johnson

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. 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

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

    Article • September 2023, Center for Open Science

    Elliott Aidan Johnson

  12. 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

  13. 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

  14. 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

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

    Article • August 2023, BMJ

    Elliott Aidan Johnson

  16. 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

  17. 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

  18. 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

  19. 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

  20. 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

  21. 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

  22. 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

  23. The Health Case for Basic Income

    Article • January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Elliott Aidan Johnson

  24. 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

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

    Article • May 2022, Research Square

    Elliott Aidan Johnson

  26. 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

  27. 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

  28. 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

  29. 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

  30. 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

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

    Article • June 2020, Center for Open Science

    Elliott Aidan Johnson

  32. 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

  33. 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

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

    Article • Global Discourse, January 2020, Policy Press

    Elliott Aidan Johnson

  35. 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

  36. 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