Professor Donna Haig Friedman
PhD, Brandeis University Heller School
Department of Public Policy and Public Affairs
Research Interests and Specialties:
Family Welfare, Social Welfare Policy, Homelessness and Homelessness Prevention, the Role of Non-Profits and Organizational Learning, Outcome Measurement, and Qualitative Research Design.
Donna Haig Friedman directs the McCormack Graduate School’s Center for Social Policy. In addition to her leadership role as Center Director, she specializes in policy analysis and research on family homelessness.
She is the author of Parenting in Public: Family Shelter and Public Assistance (Columbia University Press, 2000). Donna also teaches research methods and policy analysis in the McCormack Graduate School's Masters Program in Public Affairs and Ph.D. Program in Public Policy, and she is a McCormack School Senior Fellow.
She received her Ph.D. in social welfare policy at the Heller School, Brandeis University in 1996.
More information on the Center for Social Policy
Sample publications:
Building Knowledge and Power in the Third Sector in Haifa Israel
Preventing Homelessness and Promoting Housing Stability: A Comparative Analysis
Office Location: Healey Library, 10th floor, room 012
Telephone: 617-287-5565
Email address: donna.friedman@umb.edu
NEWS BRIEF:
Donna Haig Friedman was an invited presenter at the International Movement ATD Fourth World Movement Conference in Paris France,. Presenting on the Extreme Poverty, Family Ties and Gender panel, Donna spoke on “Participatory Action Research for Social Change: Opportunities and Challenges”.
Learning to Build an Equitable Society
Contact us at public.policy@umb.edu for more information.
