Stories of contribution, survival and defiance from those living on the margins
This project is about the lives and perspectives of people from a wide range of backgrounds with shared but distinct experiences of poverty, precarity, marginalization and the UK benefits system. If this description applies to you, and you live in Scotland, we would love to hear from you.
Get in touch:
Dr James Morrison, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen
j.g.morrison@rgu.ac.uk
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25
hours of interviews (so far)
22
interviews – and counting…
77,910
sq km of Scotland
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To find out more about this project, what it has found out so far and what it hopes to achieve, please click below.
Do you feel ‘left behind’?
If you live in Scotland and are a low-paid worker, a full-time carer, unemployed or out of work due to long-term illness, disability or for any other reason, we would like to hear from you.
Find out more about this project.
What we’re about
This is a project about the day-to-day challenges faced by people from a variety of backgrounds united by their common experience of financial hardship and lack of opportunity. Drawing on individual interviews with – and personal testimonies from – adults affected by benefit cuts, a precarious, low-waged job market, rising living costs and overstretched, eroded…
Left behind north of the border 