My primary research interest is basic income, otherwise known as Universal Basic Income (UBI). Specifically, my work examines the following areas:

• Health impact
• Economic feasibility
• Public acceptability
• Narratives to ‘sell’ the policy
• Additional needs, including those of disabled people

Outside of basic income, I also have expertise on inclusion, disability and inclusive physical activity.

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• Are ‘red wall’ constituencies really opposed to progressive policy? Examining the impact of materialist narratives for Universal Basic Income, Johnson, M., Johnson, E., Nettle, D. 1 Mar 2023, In: British Politics
• Can the ‘downward spiral’ of material conditions, mental health and faith in government be stopped? Evidence from surveys in ‘red wall’ constituencies, Johnson, M., Johnson, E., Reed, H., Nettle, D. 10 Jan 2023, In: British Journal of Politics and International Relations
• 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 Hirsch, Reed, H., Johnson, M., Lansley, S., Johnson, E., Stark, G., Pickett, K. 1 Feb 2023, In: Journal of Poverty and Social Justice
• 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, Johnson, E., Johnson, M., Kypridemos, C., Villadsen, A., Pickett, K. 23 Mar 2023, In: Pilot and Feasibility Studies
• Stop answering centrist questions: the left can only win when it answers the questions it was founded to pose, Johnson, M., Johnson, E., Nettle, D. 1 Mar 2023, Who votes for the left & why? In search of our identity, Brussels, Belgium, transform! europe
• 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, Parra-Mujica, F., Johnson, E., Reed, H., Cookson, R., Johnson, M. 28 Feb 2023, In: PLoS One
• Universal Basic Income is affordable and feasible: evidence from UK economic microsimulation modelling, Reed, H., Johnson, M., Lansley, S., Johnson, E., Stark, G., Pickett, K. 1 Feb 2023, In: Journal of Poverty and Social Justice
• A Big Local Basic Income: Proposal for a locally led basic income pilot, Johnson, E., Goodman, C., Hines, J., Corrigan, A., Taylor, R., Johnson, M. 24 Dec 2022

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• Invited talk: Universal Basic Income and health – strong support and distinctive concerns from a deprived community in NE England 2023
• Invited talk: What are the impacts of universal basic income on mental health? A microsimulation economic modelling study 2023
• Invited talk: Winning the Vote with Universal Basic Income: Lessons for Progressive Politicians 2022

• Politics MA November 18 2009
• Classics BA (Hons) June 27 2008

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