The Research-Led Attack on Sheltered Housing and its Policy Implications, A Review of Recent Studies

In the introductory session on the research influence on policy and practice at the BSG Conference in Glasgow we were offered different models of how research might or might not influence policy and exposed to ideas about how slowly or rapidly this influence might make itself felt. One image was to regard research findings as the gentle rain of truth which fell on the limestone hills and only much later trickled out in the valley as one tributary to the broad river of policy making.