Join the conversation about laziness — and contribute your ideas, research, or experiences

  • Share your personal experiences

  • Participate in one of our workshops

  • Suggest topics we should explore

  • Review our research design or findings

  • Share material you think we should look at (e.g. research, books, quotes, songs, films, artwork, etc.)

  • Or simply get in touch to tell us how you’d like to contribute

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We know forms aren’t everyone’s favourite thing. But filling in this short one helps us get back to you and handle your information responsibly. Think of it as a tiny administrative hurdle that opens the door to contributing to Project Lazy.

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Why your insights matter

  • Our research at the University of Oxford aims to better understand the meaning of the label ‘lazy’, and how it can affect people by

    • harming wellbeing – causing anxiety, low self-esteem, or burnout

    • enabling discrimination – leading to unfair treatment in employment, education and healthcare

    • deepening inequalities - disproportionately affecting ethnic minorities, those with chronic health conditions, neurodivergence, and those experiencing homelessness or unemployment

    Your experiences and insights are essential to ensure our research addresses the right questions.

  • Welfare reforms designed to reduce the number of people on benefits sometimes rely on simplistic assumptions about who 'deserves' support, excluding those labelled ‘lazy’.

    By sharing your experiences and insights, you can help transform policies to better recognise diverse abilities and create more inclusive standards of productivity.

  • Judgments about laziness often mask deeper problems in society such as discrimination, inequality, and a lack of essential healthcare services.

    Your insights can help expose these problems.