DESCRIPTION

The Social Policy Analysis Working Group (SPAWG) is located at the Boston University School of Social Work. SPAWG is co-directed by Daniel P. Miller, Yoonsook Ha, and Thomas Byrne, faculty at the School of Social Work.  

 

SPAWG has three primary aims:

1. To inform ongoing policy debates of relevance to social welfare via high-quality and rigorous empirical research.  
2. To provide ongoing opportunities for collaboration, discourse, and training for faculty and students at the BU School of Social Work and beyond who are interested in social policy analysis. 
3. To house and disseminate policy-relevant data from a range of sources to facilitate social welfare research and policymaking. 

 

Current projects at SPAWG fall into a number of core research areas: 

1. Homelessness and housing. 
2. Child care policy. 
3. Child welfare policy. 
4. Veterans’ health. 
5. Child and family nutritional well-being.