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Elgar Research Agendasoutline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are give n the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary. Forward-looking and innovative, Elgar Research Agendas are an essential resource for PhD students, scholars and anybody who wants to be at the forefront of research. This timely book utilises the specialised insights and experiences of those who have carried out research on different aspects of social welfare law and policy to construct an innovative post-Brexit and post-Covid 19 research agenda that identifies what needs to be studied and how this should be carried out. Embracing not only social welfare law but also social welfare policy, practice and impact, expert contributors consider major areas of non-economic law, such as asylum and immigration law, health law, social care law, social work and child welfare law, social security law, and issues involving social rights. Individual chapters cover branches of social welfare law, four areas of social welfare policy, four distinctive methodological approaches, and three contemporary developments. They reflect a wide-ranging set of substantive concerns and methodological approaches and, taken together, comprise a challenging but non-prescriptive research agenda. This Research Agenda will be a key resource for socio-legal researchers contemplating research on social welfare law and policy, as well as research councils, government departments and charitable bodies that fund research on social welfare law and policy.

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'Michael Adler brings together a sharply focused selection of contributions that provide key insights into the issues facing social welfare law, now and in the future. This collection provides an in-depth discussion of the research challenges spanning different branches of law and methodological approaches, focused on different social welfare policies and on contemporary organisational developments. It makes a compelling case for how future developments in social welfare law, policy and practice need to be considered in a post-Brexit, post-Covid world. In doing so, it delivers a timely and significant agenda for research.' -- Grainne McKeever, Ulster University, UK

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Edited by Michael Adler, Emeritus Professor of Socio-Legal Studies, School of Social and Political Science, The University of Edinburgh, UK

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