Doctoral Dissertation Research: The Social Production of Space for Individuals with Disabilities Who Are Residing in Communities

博士论文研究：居住在社区的残疾人的空间的社会生产

• 批准号: 1459211
• 负责人: Janet Smith
• 金额: $ 1.26万
• 依托单位: University of Illinois at Chicago
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-03-01 至 2019-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1459211&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Social; Production

This doctoral dissertation research project will focus on understanding how individuals with disabilities experience space if they have physical and mobility limitations and they have been relocated from institutional settings to live in the community. The doctoral student will analyze the ways in which these individuals experience and view community facilitators and barriers as they navigate through their everyday life in socially produced spaces of uneven development. The project will help enhance basic understanding of the ways that people with disabilities integrate, face their challenges, and live in the community. It also will have methodological implications, because it will provide a test for the use of a new research approach called grounded critical visualization, which creates a framework for studying lived, conceptual, and perceived spaces. The project will have direct societal benefits by providing new information and perspectives about socio-spatial dimensions of the disability community as well as other communities experiencing physical limitations. It will expand the participation of underrepresented groups by directly engaging people with disabilities in the research, and it will provide new insights to help realign policy and program delivery to maximize accessibility and engagement in communities by people with disabilities. As a Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement award, this award also will provide support to enable a promising student to establish a strong independent research career.As the U.S. increasingly relocates people with disabilities from institutional to community settings, greater knowledge is needed about the complexity of their experience living in the community. The student will employ the multi-method approach of grounded critical visualization, which incorporates aspects of photovoice (an approach using photographs taken by participants to "voice" their experience), questionnaires, interviews, spatial analysis, and statistical analysis to help answer the overarching research question: "What is the relationship between the local, everyday practices of people with disabilities who are living in the community and their social production of space?" The student will conduct her work in two locations in the Chicago area, the city of Oak Park just west of Chicago and neighborhoods in the southeast side of Chicago. In addition to helping the student to complete her doctoral dissertation, project findings will be disseminated through conferences, peer-reviewed journals, and local discussions in focus groups. A town hall meeting involving all participants will build awareness, expand understanding of people with disabilities, and contribute to further research on the production of disability space.

这个博士论文研究项目将侧重于了解残疾人如何体验空间，如果他们有身体和行动能力的限制，他们已经从机构设置搬迁到生活在社区。 博士生将分析这些人在社会生产的不均衡发展空间中浏览日常生活时体验和看待社区促进者和障碍的方式。 该项目将有助于提高对残疾人融入社会、面对挑战和生活在社区中的方式的基本了解。 它还将具有方法论意义，因为它将为使用一种新的研究方法提供测试，这种方法称为扎根的批判性可视化，它为研究生活，概念和感知空间创建了一个框架。 该项目将通过提供有关残疾人社区以及其他面临身体限制的社区的社会空间层面的新信息和视角，产生直接的社会效益。 它将通过直接让残疾人参与研究来扩大代表性不足的群体的参与，并将提供新的见解，以帮助重新调整政策和方案的交付，以最大限度地提高残疾人在社区中的无障碍性和参与度。 作为博士论文研究改进奖，该奖项还将为有前途的学生提供支持，使其能够建立强大的独立研究事业。随着美国越来越多地将残疾人从机构重新安置到社区环境中，需要更多地了解他们在社区生活的复杂性。 学生将采用接地的批判性可视化的多方法方法，其中包括photovoice方面（一种使用参与者拍摄的照片来“表达”他们的经历的方法），问卷调查，访谈，空间分析和统计分析，以帮助回答首要的研究问题：“生活在社区中的残疾人的当地日常做法与他们的社会空间生产之间有什么关系？“学生将在芝加哥地区的两个地点进行她的工作，一个是芝加哥以西的橡树园市，另一个是芝加哥东南侧的社区。 除了帮助学生完成她的博士论文，项目研究结果将通过会议，同行评审的期刊和焦点小组的本地讨论传播。 一个有所有与会者参加的市民大会将提高认识，扩大对残疾人的了解，并有助于进一步研究残疾人空间的产生。