Patrick Brown

Fellow’s Profile

Patrick Brown

Fellow’s Profile

Patrick Brown

UBI Feasibility in NI: International Evidence from Global Trials

Fellowship

Themes

Focus

Exploring the impact of Basic Income type programmes in South America

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Fellowship year

2023

Locality

Northern Ireland

Biography

I am a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Northern Ireland, first elected in May 2022. I was a local councillor for eight years and I have also worked as a charity director and development officer, and founded and led a number of social enterprises and businesses. In 2022, I completed my PhD at Queen's University in Belfast, researching the merit of Universal Basic Income (UBI) as a tool for conflict transformation in post-conflict societies.

My interest in UBI began when studying cash transfer programmes in Brazil as an undergraduate student, and over several years my real life and academic experience has continued to convince me of its necessity, as the only viable policy to address the chronic deprivation and inequality often present in post-conflict communities, and to future-proof society for the challenges of automation and climate crisis.

This Fellowship brings my academic interest in UBI full circle as I return to Brazil to explore an innovative basic income progamme outside Rio de Janeiro, and then travel to Colombia to research the benefits of post-conflict cash transfer programmes. I hope to use this to inform policy in regard to UBI in Northern Ireland.

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Acknowledgements

There are too many to list here in the word count without excluding others who deserve thanks

Disclaimer

All Reports are copyright © the author. The moral right of the author has been asserted. The views and opinions expressed by any Fellow are those of the Fellow and not of the Churchill Fellowship or its partners, which have no responsibility or liability for any part of them.

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