Policy Translation in National Homeless Policy – A Swedish case study
Short description
After more than a decade of missing a national homeless policy in Sweden, the government released a national homeless strategy 2022 - 2026 in July 2022. The aim of the doctoral project is to contribute to the knowledge on how key actors and social workers on different levels translate and negotiate the national strategy into local practice and policies.
About the doctoral project
The doctoral project entails the implementation processes of the Swedish homeless strategy 2022-2026. It aims to deepen the knowledge of how the national strategy is translated into homeless policy on different levels and local practice.
Method
This project consists of a qualitative case study with a document analysis of policy documents followed by expert interviews and focus group interviews.
Through interviews and policy documents, the project intend to investigate how the national strategy on multiple levels of governance is translated into local homeless policies.
The research conducted within the doctoral program at the Department of Social Work encompasses a variety of dissertation projects addressing social problems and phenomena, social processes, and the conditions of social work.
Within these themes, both doctoral students and collaborative doctoral students work with different theoretical and methodological approaches.