Working with colleagues in the Department for Social and Policy Sciences, we research Universal Basic Income (UBI) from a range of disciplinary perspectives.

We undertake microsimulations and macroeconomic modelling of UBI proposals, study UBI pilots and experiments, research the political economy of UBI, and exchange knowledge with policymakers and civil society advocates for UBI.

Current research projects in this area include:

• The economics of basic income
• The UBI Bath Beacon

• UBI-eh?, January 2025
• A UBI for Germany funded by indirect tax reforms, March 2024
• Technological change and growth regimes, August 2022
• A basic income in France: Ideas for a debate, April 2022
• Basic income experiments in OECD countries: A rapid evidence review, March 2022

• Education, welfare and work
• Sustainable futures and healthy living
• Political economy and politics