UofG Centre for Public Policy

Dr Thomas Rochow

  • Research Associate, Affiliate (Centre for Public Policy)

Biography

Thomas is a research associate at the Centre for Public Policy. He is primarily a qualitative researcher, and his work intersects youth studies, welfare conditionality and care policies. His PhD, awarded by the University of Glasgow in 2023, focused on how young people experience social security systems and how social policies shape youth transitions to adulthood. Prior to joining the centre, he held research associate positions at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and the University of York, and was an assistant professor in social research methodology at Heriot-Watt University.

He has worked alongside parents and carers across the UK and Spain, with Changing Realities and the rEUsilience Project, to co-produce policy-relevant findings and push for change across social security systems to enable low-income families to live with dignity. Currently, he is working on The State of Poverty, a Robertson Trust-funded project exploring how policy siloes and cliffedges shape experiences of poverty in Scotland from a multi-level governance perspective. He is a co-convener of the CPP ECR network and is a member of the Social Policy Association. 

Research interests

  • Youth transitions
  • Social security systems
  • Underemployment
  • Family care policies
  • Homelessness policies
  • Qualitative methods

Publications

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2025

Rochow, Thomas ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-4595-7079 (2025) Young people’s experiences of multiple benefit sanctions: secondary Analysis of qualitative longitudinal data. Journal of Youth Studies, (doi: 10.1080/13676261.2025.2561936) (Early Online Publication)

León, Margarita, Cerrillo, Ivan and Rochow, Thomas ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-4595-7079 (2025) Families with low resources striving for resilience in Spain. In: Daly, Mary (ed.) Families, Welfare States and Resilience: Low-Resource Families Navigating Care, Employment and Welfare in Europe. Edward Elgar, pp. 117-136. ISBN 9781035346752 (doi: 10.4337/9781035346769.00013)

2024

Rochow, Thomas ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-4595-7079 (2024) Internalised individualism: young people, welfare conditionality and the psychological framing of employment aspirations. Social Policy and Society, (doi: 10.1017/S1474746424000320) (Early Online Publication)

2023

Rochow, Thomas ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-4595-7079 and Wong, Mark ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5683-8684 (2023) “School for Houses”: conditional housing pathways for young people in the UK. In: Wyn, Johanna, Cahill, Helen and Cuervo, Hernan (eds.) Handbook of Children and Youth Studies. Springer, pp. 1-15. ISBN 9789814451963 (doi: 10.1007/978-981-4451-96-3_102-1)

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Articles

Rochow, Thomas ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-4595-7079 (2025) Young people’s experiences of multiple benefit sanctions: secondary Analysis of qualitative longitudinal data. Journal of Youth Studies, (doi: 10.1080/13676261.2025.2561936) (Early Online Publication)

Rochow, Thomas ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-4595-7079 (2024) Internalised individualism: young people, welfare conditionality and the psychological framing of employment aspirations. Social Policy and Society, (doi: 10.1017/S1474746424000320) (Early Online Publication)

Book Sections

León, Margarita, Cerrillo, Ivan and Rochow, Thomas ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-4595-7079 (2025) Families with low resources striving for resilience in Spain. In: Daly, Mary (ed.) Families, Welfare States and Resilience: Low-Resource Families Navigating Care, Employment and Welfare in Europe. Edward Elgar, pp. 117-136. ISBN 9781035346752 (doi: 10.4337/9781035346769.00013)

Rochow, Thomas ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-4595-7079 and Wong, Mark ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5683-8684 (2023) “School for Houses”: conditional housing pathways for young people in the UK. In: Wyn, Johanna, Cahill, Helen and Cuervo, Hernan (eds.) Handbook of Children and Youth Studies. Springer, pp. 1-15. ISBN 9789814451963 (doi: 10.1007/978-981-4451-96-3_102-1)

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