Communities in history: representing and building the creative power of people to improve health and well-being

英国的社区正面临压力。地理上的邻里被剥夺了资源和存在的理由；去工业化、衰退和紧缩破坏了职业团结；有身份的群体受到各种形式的社会排斥、剥夺公民权和歧视。文化、连通性和意义的历史模式被全球经济发展搅得天翻地覆。在“世界的重量”如此沉重的压力下，社区如何生存、适应或抵抗，更不用说繁荣了？在没有工作和基本福利和服务削减的情况下，家庭和住户如何应付？在这种分离和异化的条件下，个人如何保持希望或有意义的目标？有证据表明，为了保持社区的繁荣，公民必须承担起建设社区复原力的责任。该项目的目的是：探索来自社区和关于社区的故事如何与各种形式的复原力和抵抗力联系起来，并与维护健康和福祉相关；并调查这些故事在知识生产、传播和交流中采取的形式，以及它们如何能够最好地为制定适当的政策、服务和社区行动提供信息，以促进健康和福祉。这是一份发展拨款申请，用于支持撰写大型研究的项目提案。该项目有助于互联社区计划开发更细致的方式，以便了解社区及其联系。我们将把这些问题与他们的历史和文化背景联系起来，作为更广泛的社会经济结构变化的一部分，并跨越不同的社会和人口群体。该方案通过其倡议旨在促进社区内的积极关系，从而促进相互团结，帮助克服陈规定型观念、偏见和歧视。在新的知识空间中开发方法和研究工具具有相当大的潜力，这些方法和研究工具可以连接社区、研究人员和决策者并最大限度地发挥影响。该项目还寻求确定社区与政策和公共服务代表合作的方式，为促进健康和社会凝聚力作出贡献；并为社区提供工具，帮助他们更系统地探索如何最好地改善自己的健康和福祉。在这四个月期间，将举行四次会议，汇集学术研究人员、政策制定者、从业者和社区成员。三次会议将针对具体国家，将涉及10个申请人以及来自社区、政策和实务界的最多10个关键利益攸关方，其中许多人过去已经与申请人合作过。在每一次这样的会议上，一份文件将提供讨论的基础，为更大的项目提出建议提供一个步骤。最后一次会议将包括学术小组，并将提供机会对具体国家的会议进行反思，提出突出的教训和主题，确认项目的主要组成部分。这一过程将意味着该提案将在内部得到充分讨论和同意，并将包括其他利益相关者的见解和知识，以确保在获得资助的情况下对大型项目产生影响。

Communities in the UK are under pressure. Geographical neighbourhoods are stripped of their resources and their raisons d'etre; occupational solidarity is broken up by de-industrialization, recession and austerity; and communities of identity are subject to various forms of social exclusion, disenfranchisement and discrimination. Historic patterns of culture, connectivity and meaning are churned and turned upside down by global economic developments. With the 'weight of the world' bearing down so heavily, how do communities survive, adapt or resist, let alone flourish? How do families and households manage without work and with cutbacks in essential benefits and services? And how do individuals retain any sense of hope or meaningful purpose in conditions of such separation and alienation? Evidence suggests that to maintain thriving communities, citizens must take ownership of the building of resilience in their communities. The aims of the project are: to explore how stories from and about communities connect with forms of resilience and resistance and relate to the maintenance of health and wellbeing; and to investigate the forms these stories take in knowledge production, dissemination and exchange and how they can best inform the development of appropriate policies, services and community action to promote health and wellbeing.This proposal is for a development grant to support the writing of a project proposal for a larger study.This project contributes to the Connected Communities Programme in developing more fine-grained ways by which communities and their connections can be understood. We will look at these in relation to their historical and cultural contexts, as part of wider social economic structural changes and across different social and demographic groups. The programme through its initiatives aims to foster positive relationships within communities which in turn foster mutual solidarity helping overcome stereotypes, prejudice and discrimination. There is considerable potential for developing methodology and research tools within new knowledge spaces which connect communities, researchers and policy makers and maximise impact. The project also seeks to identify ways in which communities can collaborate with policy and public service representatives to contribute to the promotion of health and social cohesion; and give communities the tools to help explore more systematically how best to make improvements themselves to their health and wellbeing.During the four months four meetings will be held to bring together academic researchers, policy makes, practitioners and community members. Three meetings will be country specific and will involve the 10 applicants plus up to ten key stakeholders from communties, and policy and practice worlds, many of who have already worked with the applicants in the past. At each of these meetings a paper will provide the basis for discussion, providing a step towards the development of the proposal for the larger project. A final meeting will include the academic team and will provide opportunities for reflection on the country-specific meetings, drawing out salient lessons and themes, confirming the main components of the project. The process will mean that the proposal will have been internally fully discussed and agreed, and will include the insights and knowledge of other stakeholders to ensure impact for the large project if it is funded.