An agenda for Australian social policy research

Speech presented at the policy seminar "Identifying social policy research agendas for the 80's: Australian and Queensland perspectives", Department of Social Work, University of Queensland, 9 October 1981 by Adam Graycar, Social Welfare Research Centre, University of New South Wales. This speech is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/There are two ways of talking about research and how research fits into a policy agenda. First of all, we can talk about where research fits into policy generally, and secondly, how in the research centre where I work we have identified the policy issues. We are an academic research body, not a policy body