MCLN focuses on the following professional areas:

• Leadership—theory and practice
• Civil society and the third sector
• Education and educational policy
• Society and social services
• Setting and implementing social policy—how theory, ideas, and philosophy are related to policy and practical activity
• The use of knowledge and information in decision-making
• Theory and practice of personal and systemic change
• Various planning methodologies
• Theories of justice and social theories
• Administration and governance
• Legal issues—in education, social services, civil rights, public administration, and local government
• Development of the Negev—theories of spatial development