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Evaluating an Innovative Scheme for Preventing Youth Homelessness
Author(s): Sarah Dickens, Kandy Woodfield
Organization: Joseph Rowntree Foundation
Publication Date: 2004
A review of an innovative approach to youth homelessness that tackles the problem in advance of a crisis being reached. This report explores the experiences of young people participating in the "cluster schemes" set up by Safe in the City and the impact of the schemes in moving young people away from the risk factors associated with social exclusion and youth homelessness. The cluster schemes are an innovative approach to youth homelessness that...
Blurring the Boundaries? New Social Media, New Social Research: Developing a network to explore the issues faced by researchers negotiating the new research landscape of online social media platforms
Author(s): Kandy Woodfield, Gareth Morrell, Katie Metzler, Grant Blank, Janet Salmons, Jerome Finnegan, Mithu Lucraft
Organization: National Centre for Research Methods
Publication Date: 2013
This paper emerges from a programme of workshops and social media activities exploring the impact of social media on social science research funded by NCRM during 2012-13. The New Social Media, New Social Science? Network (NSMNSS) brought together an international network of interdisciplinary researchers to discuss the possibilities and challenges these new social media platforms and worlds pose for social science researchers. The main questions...
New Approaches to Youth Homelessness Prevention: A Qualitative Evaluation of the Safe in the City Cluster Schemes
Author(s): Sarah Dickens, Kandy Woodfield
Publication Date: 2004
Safe in the City was an innovative response to the problem of youth homelessness. It was set up in 1998 and tasked with piloting new approaches to youth homelessness in London. Building on research findings, it developed an ‘early intervention’ response to homelessness, which meant that it targeted young people who had been identified as being ‘at risk’ of homelessness because of their personal circumstances but who were currently in housing....