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Marcia Gibson is a Researcher at the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow. Her work focuses on systematic reviews of complex social interventions, particularly the health impacts of welfare state policies and social protection measures. She leads projects on welfare-to-work interventions, basic income evaluations, and the effects of benefit sanctions, with a commitment to engaging policymakers and practitioners.
Her research interests include evaluating policy-level interventions, natural experiments, and the intersection of social policy and public health. Key areas of focus are the health of lone parents, welfare reforms, and the design of equitable social protection systems. She has contributed to parliamentary evidence submissions and co-authored reviews on universal credit, austerity impacts, and basic income feasibility.
Recent work includes analyzing mental health effects of Universal Credit through mixed methods and scoping reviews of benefit sanctions. Her grants include funding from the National Institute for Health Research for developing platforms to model income supplementation reforms. Collaborations span interdisciplinary teams addressing systemic health inequalities through policy evaluation.
Publications highlight her expertise in systematic reviews, policy analysis, and qualitative methods. Key outputs include Cochrane reviews on welfare-to-work impacts and a Lancet Public Health paper on basic income's role in public health. Her work emphasizes methodological rigor in evaluating large-scale social interventions.
