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Single Parent Action Network: a participatory history

单亲行动网络：参与历史

基本信息

批准号：
AH/S000542/1
负责人：
Josie McLellan
金额：
$ 43.95万
依托单位：
University of Bristol
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2019
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2019 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FS000542%2F1
关键词：
Single Parent Action Network participatory

项目摘要

This project brings together Barton Hill Settlement (BHS), the University of Bristol and the Feminist Archive South to research the history of Single Parent Action Network (SPAN), a voluntary organisation based in inner-city Bristol from 1990 until 2016, when it was amalgamated into BHS. At its height, SPAN oversaw a network of 1000+ groups, and a significant portfolio of national and European funding. Yet it retained a distinctively grassroots and multi-racial ethos. SPAN's activities included education, research, local service provision, community organising and political lobbying. This multi-faceted history is an important example of women's, black, and working-class activism, and the evolution of the voluntary and community sector in the 1990s and 2000s.After a turbulent few years, and the loss of its premises, SPAN recently amalgamated with Barton Hill Settlement, bringing its life as an independent organisation to a close. This project aims to preserve SPAN's archive, currently at risk, and write the history of this organisation through a participatory research process. This project will bring together expertise from the heritage, voluntary and university sectors in an innovative participatory methodology. BHS is a key force for community development in inner-city Bristol, which works with over 40,000 people per annum and is extensively networked locally, nationally and internationally. Public engagement is embedded in the work of the FAS. Both PI and CI are experienced investigators on RCUK-funded historical co-production projects. The central focus of the project is a History Group, which will meet weekly at the Settlement's premises in inner-city Bristol for a period of 12 months. This group will include both academic researchers and community members, activists and service users from both BHS and SPAN. Facilitated by the project team, participants will design and execute a research project, and communicate their findings to members of the public. As outputs will be co-designed, it is not possible at this stage to say what form they will take, but possible outputs include film, an exhibition, walking tours, digital products like an app or a website, collaboration with visual or performance artists and so on. The participants in this project come from groups that rarely have the chance to engage with the university: single parents, speakers of English as an additional language, and benefits claimants. The experience of participating in the project will allow them to gain confidence and expertise, and to build social and professional networks. But the benefits for academia are, if anything, greater. These groups are ideally placed to critique ways of doing history that professional historians take for granted, and to bring different perspectives and life experiences to bear on the archival material. Members of History Group will present their findings in academic fora, such as conference presentations. In this way, the project aims to overcome the currently existing gulf between academics and practitioners of public, community and co-produced history. The academic team will also lead on five scholarly articles, addressing both the historical significance of the history of SPAN, and the methodological contribution of the project. This project builds on the team's expertise in engaged teaching and research, both in academia and in the heritage and voluntary sectors. But it goes beyond current practice in the arts and humanities to develop a participatory research methodology in which co-production is central. In this way, it aims to produce history which is rigorous, inclusive and engaging, and to communicate these new methodologies to academic researchers well beyond the discipline.

该项目汇集了巴顿山定居点 (BHS)、布里斯托大学和南女权主义档案馆，研究单亲行动网络 (SPAN) 的历史。单亲行动网络 (SPAN) 是一个位于布里斯托尔市中心的志愿组织，从 1990 年到 2016 年并入 BHS。在鼎盛时期，SPAN 监管着一个由 1000 多个团体组成的网络，以及大量的国家和欧洲资金组合。然而，它保留了独特的草根和多种族精神。 SPAN 的活动包括教育、研究、本地服务提供、社区组织和政治游说。这段多面的历史是妇女、黑人和工人阶级行动主义以及 1990 年代和 2000 年代志愿和社区部门演变的重要例子。在经历了几年的动荡和失去其场所之后，SPAN 最近与巴顿山定居点合并，结束了其作为一个独立组织的生命。该项目旨在保存目前面临风险的 SPAN 档案，并通过参与性研究过程书写该组织的历史。该项目将以创新的参与方法汇集来自遗产、志愿和大学部门的专业知识。 BHS 是布里斯托尔市中心社区发展的关键力量，每年与超过 40,000 人合作，并在当地、全国和国际上建立了广泛的网络。公众参与已融入 FAS 的工作中。 PI 和 CI 都是 RCUK 资助的历史合拍项目的经验丰富的调查员。该项目的核心是历史小组，该小组将每周在布里斯托尔市中心的定居点举行会议，为期 12 个月。该小组将包括来自 BHS 和 SPAN 的学术研究人员和社区成员、活动家和服务用户。在项目团队的协助下，参与者将设计和执行一个研究项目，并向公众传达他们的发现。由于产出将是共同设计的，因此现阶段不可能说出它们将采取什么形式，但可能的产出包括电影、展览、徒步旅行、应用程序或网站等数字产品、与视觉或表演艺术家的合作等等。该项目的参与者来自很少有机会与大学接触的群体：单亲家长、以英语作为附加语言的人以及福利申请人。参与该项目的经验将使他们获得信心和专业知识，并建立社交和专业网络。但对于学术界来说，如果有什么好处的话，那就是更大了。这些团体非常适合批评专业历史学家认为理所当然的历史记录方式，并为档案材料带来不同的观点和生活经历。历史小组的成员将在学术论坛上展示他们的发现，例如会议演讲。通过这种方式，该项目旨在克服目前公共、社区和共同创造历史的学者和实践者之间存在的鸿沟。学术团队还将领导发表五篇学术文章，阐述 SPAN 历史的历史意义以及该项目的方法论贡献。该项目建立在团队在学术界以及遗产和志愿部门从事教学和研究的专业知识的基础上。但它超越了当前艺术和人文学科的实践，发展了一种以合作生产为核心的参与性研究方法。通过这种方式，它的目标是创造严谨、包容和引人入胜的历史，并将这些新方法论传达给学科之外的学术研究人员。