Verner Denvall
Professor i socialt arbete
Evaluating homelessness – a comparative analysis of top 10 articles from the US and Europe : Att utvärdera hemlöshet – en komparativ analys av de mest citerade utvärderingarna från USA och Europa
Författare
Summary, in English
Homelessness as a political and social dominion has a number of features that make it particularly difficult to tackle. In addition to being a wicked problem, homelessness offers several analytical avenues. How do these characteristics affect the evaluation of programmes and projects aspiring to combat homelessness? Dissimilar pictures and solutions regarding homelessness in the US and in European countries will likely affect recommendations given as a result of evaluations performed. For this study, the empirical base is a sample of the most cited evaluations of homelessness programmes published in professional journals between 1996 and 2010. Most of these evaluations are from the US. These US evaluations more often use large-scale national programmes and quantitative methods, whereas European evaluations more often have smaller sample sizes and qualitative methods. In both regions, the evaluators seldom use theory from social science when analysing their findings. It is suggested that European evaluation research should be noticed to a larger extent since it is probably better suited for application in a European context.
Avdelning/ar
- Socialhögskolan
Publiceringsår
2017-09-03
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
724-740
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
European Journal of Social Work
Volym
20
Issue
5
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Routledge
Ämne
- Social Work
Nyckelord
- bibliometrics
- Evaluation
- homelessness
- impact
- social work
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 1369-1457