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  1. Claiming deservingness: The durability of social security claimant discourses during the Covid-19 pandemic

    Article • The Sociological Review, May 2025, SAGE Publications

    Kate Summers

  2. Benefits Conditionality in the United Kingdom: Is It Common, and Is It Perceived to Be Reasonable?

    Article • Social Policy and Administration, February 2025, Wiley

    Kate Summers

  3. Temporality and the meaning of social security money within households

    Article • January 2024, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Kate Summers

  4. Welfare attitudes in a crisis: How COVID exceptionalism undermined greater solidarity

    Article • Journal of Social Policy, October 2023, Cambridge University Press

    Kate Summers

  5. Building on broad support for better social security

    Article • IPPR Progressive Review, August 2023, Wiley

    Kate Summers

  6. Interviews in the social sciences

    Article • Nature Reviews Methods Primers, September 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Kate Summers

  7. Deliberating Inequality: A Blueprint for Studying the Social Formation of Beliefs about Economic Inequality

    Article • Social Justice Research, April 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Kate Summers

  8. Mediating the claim? How ‘local ecosystems of support’ shape the operation and experience of UK social security

    Article • Social Policy and Administration, February 2022, Wiley

    Dr Jo Ingold, Kate Summers

  9. Why isn’t there More Support for Progressive Taxation of Wealth? A Sociological Contribution to the Wider Debate

    Article • LSE Public Policy Review, January 2022, LSE Press

    Kate Summers

  10. Guiding principles for social security policy: Outcomes from a bottom‐up approach

    Article • Social Policy and Administration, November 2021, Wiley

    Kate Summers

  11. The long and short of it: The temporal significance of wealth and income

    Article • Social Policy and Administration, October 2020, Wiley

    Kate Summers

  12. Universal simplicity? The alleged simplicity of Universal Credit from administrative and claimant perspectives

    Article • Journal of Poverty and Social Justice, June 2020, Policy Press

    Kate Summers, David Young

  13. For the greater good? Ethical reflections on interviewing the ‘rich’ and ‘poor’ in qualitative research

    Article • International Journal of Social Research Methodology, May 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Kate Summers