Ben is currently a Professor in Social Science and Health in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at King’s College London, and co-leads the Work, welfare reform and mental health programme within the ESRC Centre for Society & Mental Health. He is also co-lead of the ‘WelfareExperiences’ project, a large mixed-methods coproduced comparison of how it feels to claim benefits in five European countries – the project website will be launched early in 2025.

For a time in 2015-16 he was also on secondment as a Policy Advisor at the Department of Work and Pensions.