Joseph Rowntree Foundation announce calls for proposals on 'Multiple Exclusion Homelessness'

A collaboration of key agencies have announced a 680K call for proposals to 'ensure that policy and practice responses to multiple exclusion homelessness are better informed by robust evidence.'

The Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC) have joined up with the Joespeh Rowntree Foundation, the Department for Communities and Local Government (CLG), and voluntary sector agencies such as Homeless Link to invite for proposals.

The specific objectives of the research have been announced as:

• to develop a scientifically rigorous account of the relationship between homelessness and other dimensions of 'deep' social exclusion;
• to attain a theoretically-informed understanding of the causes of multiple exclusion homelessness; and
• to shift thinking on multiple exclusion homelessness away from ‘a priori’ organisational categorisations, towards inductive analyses which start from the perspectives of people with relevant first-hand experience.

The deadline for receipt of applications is 4pm on 7 August 2008 though a launch event will be taking place on the 25th of June.

For more information or to book a place on the launch event see here

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[Zola]

Great work.