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 to push for change across social security systems to enable low-income families to live with dignity. Currently, he is working on a Robertson Trust-funded project looking at how policy siloes and cliffedges shape experiences of poverty in Scotland from a mult-level governance perspective. He is a co-convener of the CPP ECR network and is a member of the Social Policy Association. 

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

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