Researching Homelessness: Challenging Exclusion?

• Main Authors: Isobel Anderson, Masa Filipovic, Joe Finnerty
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cogitatio 2016-10-01
• Series: Social Inclusion
• Subjects: hidden homelessness; homelessness policy-making; homelessness research; policy evaluation; research networks; service user participation; social inclusion
• Online Access: https://www.cogitatiopress.com/socialinclusion/article/view/774

This themed issue of Social Inclusion provides a timely opportunity to reflect on how contemporary research is addressing the multi-dimensional issue of homelessness around the world. The papers presented here provide a wide range of new evidence on homelessness including theoretical, methodological and empirical contributions. They draw on a range of national experiences in Europe and beyond, and addressing the issue of social inclusion and social exclusion of homeless or previously homeless people from a range of perspectives and approaches. It is hoped that the contributions to this themed issue will prove influential in terms of both scholarship and potential to enhance policy making and service delivery to some of our most excluded citizens.