Papers relating to research carried out by students at the School of Social Work under Spencer's supervision.

Consists of: Correspondence from the Department of Social Welfare attaching data from a study on social allowance applicants; notes and papers relating to a consultative conference on the chronic petty offender including Spencer's paper "The Homeless Transient"; report of the committee on homeless and transient men by committee chairman John Spencer; School of Social work bibliography; Proceedings of "The Homeless Transient - the person and the problem", a public institute held at Saskatchewan house, including paper presented by Spencer "The Homeless Transient - Citizen or Vagrant".