A tendency in current policy research is the focus on ideational features of policymaking, i.e. the way ideas, beliefs and language shape policy processes. The impact of the material situation as it exists irrespective of human interpretation, or in other words, the factual problem pressure, is...

This paper uses data from Understanding Society: the UK Household Longitudinal Study to explore the association between fuel poverty and a set of well-being outcomes: life-satisfaction, self-reported health measures and more objectively measured biomarker data. Over and above the conventional...

Fuel poverty in Ireland is a significant issue faced by almost a quarter of the population as per government statistics. In this study, we investigate the trends in fuel poverty in Ireland between 2008 and 2020 using the Irish subset of EU SILC data. We find that the increase in the proportion...