A particular advantage of the I-SPHERE team lies in its inter-disciplinary character (covering social policy, sociology, economics, human geography, law and political studies) and equal expertise in conducting quantitative and qualitative research.
Research expertise
- Complex needs and adverse childhood experience
- Homelessness and housing exclusion
- Housing policy, law and rights
- Housing needs, affordability and access
- Poverty, including food and fuel poverty, and destitution
- Welfare systems, welfare reform and welfare conditionality
Methodological expertise
- qualitative research and analysis
- survey design and analysis
- longitudinal research (quantitative and qualitative)
- socio-legal and policy analysis
This includes experience in:
- Statistical modelling
- Survey design, delivery and analysis
- Secondary analysis of both large-scale surveys and administrative datasets
- Focus groups
- In-depth interviews
- Qualitative longitudinal research
- Policy, legal, economic and normative analysis
- Process and outcomes impact evaluation
- Cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness analysis
- Rapid evidence reviews
- Vignette-based methodologies
- Case studies
- Participant observation
- Auto-photography / self-directed photography
- International comparative research