Professor Daniel Nettle

Professor

Department: Social Work, Education and Community Wellbeing

Research Themes and Scholarly Interests

I am Professor in Community Wellbeing in the Department of Social Work, Education and Community Wellbeing and a researcher in the at the , Paris.

I study a number of different topics relating to behaviour, cognition, society and health. My current research projects are in one or more of the following areas:

Economic and social inequality
Trust, cooperation and antisocial behaviour
Adversity and aging
Hunger and food insecurity
Moral and political cognition

My work spans the biological and social sciences. I am also interested more broadly in explanations in the behavioural sciences; in interdisciplinary synthesis; and in open science. Recently I have begun to explore how my work might apply to and support .

In addition to my PURE record, you can in some form via my website, even if it is not the publisher’s formatted version. You can also find information on the various and access an introductory I wrote.

I also write a on science, and society.

Key Publications

Basic Income for Greater Manchester: Plans for a feasible, affordable and popular pilot, Hawdale, A., Strappazzon, L., Douglas, J., Johnson, E., Duffy, S., Mermelstein, D., Stark, G., Reed, H., Nettle, D., Johnson, M. 10 Feb 2025
Does food insecurity cause anxiety and depression? Evidence from the Changing Cost of Living Study, Bateson, M., Chevallier, C., Johnson, E., Johnson, M., Pickett, K., Nettle, D. 14 Feb 2025
Examining the relationship between income and both mental and physical health among adults in the UK: Analysis of 12 waves (2009-2022) of Understanding Society, Reed, H., Nettle, D., Parra Mujica, F., Stark, G., Wilkinson, R., Johnson, M., Johnson, E. 6 Mar 2025, In: PLoS One
Poverty is associated with both risk avoidance and risk taking: empirical evidence for the desperation threshold model from the UK and France, de Courson, B., Frankenhuis, W., Nettle, D. 5 Feb 2025, In: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Short-term changes in financial situation have immediate mental health consequences: Implications for social policy, Nettle, D., Chevallier, C., de Courson, B., Johnson, E., Johnson, M., Pickett, K. 1 Mar 2025, In: Social Policy & Administration
The daily experience of hunger in UK females with and without food insecurity, Neal, C., Pepper, G., Shannon, O., Allen, C., Bateson, M., Nettle, D. 1 Jan 2025, In: Appetite
What role do young people believe Universal Basic Income can play in supporting their mental health?, Johnson, E., Webster, H., Morrison, J., Thorold, R., Mathers, A., Nettle, D., Pickett, K., Johnson, M. 2 Jan 2025, In: Journal of Youth Studies
Act Now: A vision for a better future and a new social contract, Johnson, M., Dorling, D., Driscoll, J., Hardill, I., Hobbs, C., Johnson, E., Lawson, N., Nadel, J., Nettle, D., Pickett, K., Polanski, Z., Pollock, A., Reed, H., Robson, I., Stark, G., Taylor-Robinson, D., Wilkinson, R. 1 Jul 2024
Basic Income: The Policy That Changes Everything, Johnson, M., Pickett, K., Nettle, D., Reed, H., Johnson, E., Robson, I. 5 Nov 2024
Breaking the Overton Window: on the need for adversarial co-production, Johnson, E., Hardill, I., Johnson, M., Nettle, D. 1 Aug 2024, In: Evidence and Policy

Professional Activity

Oral presentation: Act Now Book Launch 2024
Invited talk: Modelling Public Acceptability of Tax and Benefit Changes 2024
Invited talk: Universal Basic Income and public health crises: RSA North Report launch 2022

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