Homeless Link Research Forum

Homeless Link coordinates a Research Forum which aims to improve the quality, co-ordination, relevance and impact of research in the homelessness sector. The Forum is open to members of Homeless Link and meets on a quarterly basis. Members share information on a regular basis on their proposed and ongoing research in order to improve collaboration.

If you would like to find out more about Homeless Link's research or the work of the Research Forum please contact Rachel Prime on e-mail or phone 020 7960 3018.

Homeless Link Research

These pages contain details of Homeless Link's ongoing and previous research projects, including an archive of research reports and related documents.

• Experiences of Commissioning - An online survey of Homeless Link member organisations. The survey asked about the type of experience (whether positive, negative or mixed) that people have had of thirteen aspects of the commissioning process, and what evidence they could provide on these issues.

• New Multiple exclusion and homelessness initative - £680,000 committed to for academic research initative launched in June. Launch and networking event on 25 June to bring together interested parties in voluntary and academic sectors.

• Mapping services for homeless people without dependants - Findings have now been published from the Survey of Needs and Provision (SNAP), developed by Homeless Link and RIS, looking at homelessnes services for single people and couples in England - where they are, what they do and who they work with.

• Rural homelessness project - The full report and executive summary of Homeless Link research looking at good practice and capacity building needs of rural agencies has now been published.

• Clean break - our action research project into drugs and homelessness.

• Homeless Link has published its report on A8 nationals, which reveals that a small but significant number of Eastern Europeans are turning to London’s homelessness services for help. Download the Executive Summary or contact Paul Anderson to receive the full report. See also our good practice guide Sharing Solutions: Working with A8 Nationals

• Move-on research Get the full national results of Homeless Link's Move-on Research.

• Annual Update of homelessness research In 2004 Homeless Link, in conjunction with CRASH, published the fourth annual update of research into homelessness in pdf format. A searchable bibliography of all four updates can be found on the CRASHINDEX website.