Jim Kaufman

University of York

I’m Jim, a researcher, and I live in Sheffield with my partner Kat and our two young children. I work full time on Changing Realities. When I’m not working or parenting - so not as often as I might like - I enjoy playing piano. I used to enjoy reading fiction, but these days if I stop moving I more or less instantly fall asleep. I believe that a humane, functioning social security system is essential for the realisation of social justice and equality. I’d like it to become much more difficult for people - politicians, policymakers, the media - to attack and undermine social security with untruthful distortions and stereotypes. In my own life, I’d like to get more sleep.