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Professor Chris Grover

Professor in Social Policy, Head of Department

  1. 2024
  2. Published

    Explaining the abolition of the wage stop in the UK

    Grover, C., 1/04/2024, In: Journal of Poverty and Social Justice. 17, 1, p. 28-45 18 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  3. 2023
  4. Published

    The austerity state, 'social junk' and the mystification of violence

    Grover, C., 30/12/2023, Demystifying Power, Crime and Social Harm: The Work and Legacy of Steven Box. Scott, D. & Sim, J. (eds.). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 203-222 20 p. (Critical Criminological Perspectives; vol. Part F2019).

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  5. 2022
  6. Published

    Social harms, crime and criminal justice

    Grover, C., 6/12/2022, A Research Agenda for Social Welfare Law, Policy and Practice. Adler, M. (ed.). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, p. 155-172 17 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  7. E-pub ahead of print

    The politics of job retention schemes in Britain: The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme and the Temporary Short Time Working Compensation Scheme

    Wiggan, J. & Grover, C., 7/04/2022, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Critical Social Policy. p. 026101832210865 1 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  8. Published

    Book Review: Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism by Anne Case and Angus Deaton

    Grover, C., 1/02/2022, In: Critical Social Policy. 42, 1, p. 164-167 4 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  9. Published

    The Household Benefit Cap: understanding the restriction of benefit income in Britain

    Grover, C., 31/01/2022, In: Journal of Social Policy. 51, 1, p. 2-19 18 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  10. 2020
  11. E-pub ahead of print

    Understanding material assistance in the Children and Young Persons Act 1963: Idealism and classical liberalism in England and Wales

    Grover, C., 20/01/2020, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Qualitative Social Work. 20 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  12. 2019
  13. Published

    Violent proletarianisation: social murder, the reserve army of labour and social security ‘austerity’ in Britain

    Grover, C. G., 1/08/2019, In: Critical Social Policy. 39, 3, p. 335-355 21 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  14. 2018
  15. Published

    Developments in loaning social assistance: support for mortgage interest in Britain

    Grover, C. G., 10/2018, In: Journal of Poverty and Social Justice. 26, 3, p. 401-415 15 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  16. 2017
  17. Published

    Ending reassessment for Employment and Support Allowance for some disabled people in the UK

    Grover, C. G., 08/2017, In: Disability and Society. 32, 8, p. 1269-1274 6 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal article

  18. Published

    A very capitalist condition a history and politics of disability

    Grover, C. G., 05/2017, In: Disability and Society. 32, 4, p. 605-606 2 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineBook/Film/Article reviewpeer-review

  19. Published

    Social Security and Localism

    Grover, C. G., 2017, In: Journal of Social Security Law. 24, 3, p. 119-134 16 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  20. Published

    Wage supplements: in-work poverty and themes in social security policy for low pay

    Grover, C. G., 2017, In: Journal of Social Security Law. 24, 1, p. 16-30 15 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  21. 2016
  22. Published

    From wage supplements to a ‘living wage’? a commentary on the problems of predistribution in Britain’s summer budget of 2015

    Grover, C. G., 11/2016, In: Critical Social Policy. 36, 4, p. 693-703 11 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  23. Published

    The end of an era? the resignation of Iain Duncan Smith, Conservatism and social security benefits for disabled people

    Grover, C., 13/09/2016, In: Disability and Society. 31, 8, p. 1127-1131 5 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal article

  24. Published

    Social security and wage poverty: historical and policy aspects of supplementing wages in Britain and beyond

    Grover, C. G., 2016, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 304 p.

    Research output: Book/Report/ProceedingsBook

  25. 2015
  26. Published

    Employment and support allowance, the ‘summer budget’ and less eligible disabled people

    Grover, C., 12/2015, In: Disability and Society. 30, 10, p. 1573-1576 4 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal article

  27. Published

    Disabled people, work and welfare: Is employment really the answer?

    Grover, C. & Piggott, L., 1/07/2015, Bristol: Policy Press. 293 p.

    Research output: Book/Report/ProceedingsBook

  28. Published

    A right not to work and disabled people

    Grover, C. & Piggott, L., 2015, Disabled people, work and welfare: Is employment really the answer?. Grover, C. & Piggott, L. (eds.). Bristol, p. 239-258 20 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  29. Published

    Commodification, disabled people, and wage work in Britain

    Grover, C., 2015, In: Canadian Journal of Disability Studies. 4, 2

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  30. Published

    Disabled people, work and welfare

    Grover, C. & Piggott, L., 2015, Disabled people, work and welfare: Is employment really the answer?. Grover, C. & Piggott, L. (eds.). Bristol: Policy Press, p. 1-21 21 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  31. Published

    Social security policy and low wages in austere times

    Grover, C., 2015, Social policy review 27: Analysis and debate in social policy, 2015. Irving, Z., Fenger, M. & Hudson, J. (eds.). Policy Press, p. 33-54 22 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  32. Published

    Themes in disabled people, work and welfare

    Grover, C. & Piggott, L., 2015, Disabled people, work and welfare: Is employment really the answer. Grover, C. & Piggott, L. (eds.). Bristol: Policy Press, p. 277-283 7 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  33. Published
  34. 2014
  35. Published

    From the social fund to local welfare assistance: central-local government relations and 'special expenses'

    Grover, C., 1/10/2014, In: Public Policy and Administration. 29, 4, p. 313-330 18 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  36. Published

    Atos Healthcare withdraws from the Work Capability Assessment: a comment

    Grover, C., 2014, In: Disability and Society. 29, 8, p. 1324-1328 5 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal article

  37. Published

    Temporalities and spaces of disability social (in)security: Australia and the UK compared

    Grover, C. & Soldatic, K., 2014, Disability, spaces and places of policy exclusion. Morgan, H., Roulstone, A. & Soldatic, K. (eds.). London: Routledge, p. 80-96 17 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  38. 2013
  39. Published

    The Allen Report: class, gender and disadvantage

    Grover, C. & Mason, C., 11/2013, In: Families, Relationships and Societies. 2, 3, p. 355-369 15 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  40. Published

    A commentary on resistance to the UK's Work Experience programme: capitalism, exploitation and wage work

    Grover, C. & Piggott, L., 08/2013, In: Critical Social Policy. 33, 3, p. 554-563 10 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  41. Published

    Disability and social (in)security: emotions, contradictions of ‘inclusion’ and employment and support allowance

    Grover, C. & Piggott, L., 07/2013, In: Social Policy and Society. 12, 3, p. 369-380 12 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  42. Published

    A right not to work and disabled people

    Grover, C. & Piggott, L., 2013, In: Social and Public Policy Review. 7, 1, p. 25-39 15 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  43. Published

    Employment and Support Allowance:capability, personalisation and disabled people in the UK

    Grover, C. & Piggott, L., 2013, In: Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research. 15, 2, p. 170-184 15 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  44. Published

    Neoliberal restructuring, disabled people and social (in)security in Australia and Britain

    Grover, C. & Soldatic, K., 2013, In: Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research. 15, 3, p. 216-232 17 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  45. 2012
  46. Published

    Personalised conditionality: observations on active proletarianisation in late modern Britain

    Grover, C., 06/2012, In: Capital and Class. 36, 2, p. 283-301 19 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  47. Published

    Abolishing the discretionary Social Fund: continuity and change in relieving ‘special expenses’

    Grover, C., 2012, In: Journal of Social Security Law. 19, 1, p. 12-28 17 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  48. Published

    Localism and poverty in the United Kingdom: the case of Local Welfare Assistance

    Grover, C., 2012, In: Policy Studies. 33, 4, p. 349-365 17 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  49. 2011
  50. Published

    Social Protest in 2011: Material and Cultural Aspects of Economic Inequalities

    Grover, C., 30/11/2011, In: Sociological Research Online. 16, 4

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  51. Published

    Cutting social security and tax credit spending

    Grover, C., 2011, In: Journal of Poverty and Social Justice. 19, 3, p. 235-248 14 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  52. Published

    The social fund 20 years on: historical and policy aspects of loaning social security

    Grover, C., 2011, Aldershot: Ashgate. 295 p.

    Research output: Book/Report/ProceedingsBook

  53. 2010
  54. Published

    Abolishing the 10p tax band: some observations

    Grover, C., 2010, In: Journal of Poverty and Social Justice. 18, 1, p. 69-79 11 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  55. Published

    Crime and social policy

    Grover, C., 2010, International Handbook of Criminology. Shoham, S. G., Knepper, P. & Kett, M. (eds.). Boca Raton: CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, Ltd., p. 425-454 30 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  56. Published

    From incapacity benefit to employment and support allowance: social sorting, sickness and impairment and social security

    Grover, C. & Piggott, L., 2010, In: Policy Studies. 31, 2, p. 265-282 18 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  57. Published

    No one written off? welfare, work and problem drug use

    Grover, C. & Paylor, I., 2010, In: Drugs: Education, Prevention, and Policy . 17, 4, p. 315-332 18 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  58. Published

    Social security policy and vindictiveness

    Grover, C., 2010, In: Sociological Research Online. 15, 2

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  59. 2009
  60. Published

    Privatizing employment services in Britain

    Grover, C., 08/2009, In: Critical Social Policy. 29, 3, p. 487-509 12 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  61. Published

    Retrenching Incapacity Benefit : Employment Support Allowance and paid work.

    Piggott, L. A. & Grover, C., 04/2009, In: Social Policy and Society. 8, 2, p. 159-170 12 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  62. Published

    Conclusion: Safeguarding children?

    Broadhurst, K., Grover, C. & Jamieson, J., 2009, Critical Perspectives on Safeguarding Children. Broadhurst, K., Grover, C. & Jamieson, J. (eds.). Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 296 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  63. Published

    Critical Perspectives on Safeguarding Children

    Broadhurst, K. (ed.), Grover, C. (ed.) & Jamieson, J. (ed.), 2009, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. 296 p.

    Research output: Book/Report/ProceedingsBook

  64. Published

    Introduction: Safeguarding children?

    Broadhurst, K., Grover, C. & Jamieson, J., 2009, Critical Perspectives on Safeguarding Children. Broadhurst, K., Grover, C. & Jamieson, J. (eds.). Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 296 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  65. Published

    Loaning poor relief

    Grover, C., 2009, In: Social and Public Policy Review. 3, 2, p. 30-53 24 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

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