Stories in Transition: Examining the role of arts, culture and sport in supporting veteran transition to civilian life

转型中的故事：审视艺术、文化和体育在支持退伍军人过渡到平民生活中的作用

• 批准号: AH/T006862/1
• 负责人: Nick Caddick
• 金额: $ 83.85万
• 依托单位: Anglia Ruskin University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FT006862%2F1
• 关键词: Stories; Transition; Examining; role; arts

The Stories in Transition project pioneers creative methods to co-produce research with veterans about the role of arts, sport and culture activities in supporting military-to-civilian transition. In the aftermath of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan British veterans have received unprecedented attention from media, government and the wider public. Increasingly, arts, sport and cultural activities are being used to support veterans; high profile theatre projects, such as "The Two Worlds of Charlie F", and sporting initiatives, such the Invictus Games, are good examples of this new trend. Whilst organisations using arts, sport and culture are popular with veterans, they do not have a strong evidence base and we do not understand why these activities could benefit veterans.Current research on veterans is dominated by health perspectives and focuses on easily measurable outcomes like rates of alcoholism and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Missing from this research are veterans' experiences, explained in their own words, as they adapt to civilian life and make sense of their new identity. It is known that veterans may experience alienation, and many grieve the loss of their military way of life and comradeship. The Stories in Transition project recognises that becoming a civilian is a more complicated social and cultural process that goes beyond the need for housing, employment and healthcare. This project aims to explore how veterans author their own stories about life after military service through participation in arts, sport and culture activities, and through producing creative documentary films. The project is unique because it engages with veterans in a creative and empowering way. Unlike measuring instrumental transition 'outcomes', like scores on a questionnaire, we are interested in what transition itself really means to veterans and what they think they get out of participating in arts, sport and culture activities. This inter-disciplinary project combines creative and collaborative research methodologies with a rigorous case study design to study three veterans' organisations that use sailing, theatre and archaeology in their work. Veterans' voices are at the heart of the research process, and they will work with researchers in the fields of critical military studies, participatory arts and creative practice methodologies to co-produce and co-author their own transition stories and engage in collective reflection about their participation in arts, sport and culture activities.Professionally-edited creative documentary films will share new knowledge of veterans' military and post-military lives, and showcase the role of arts, sport and culture in supporting their transition to civilian life. The research has the potential to transform our understanding of both transition and the unique opportunities of arts, sport and culture activities. In doing so, it will provide the partner organisations, veteran community, military charity sector, practitioners of arts, sport and culture, and the wider public with new knowledge of what transition 'is' and how arts, sport and culture can best be used to support veterans.

过渡时期的故事项目开创了创造性的方法，与退伍军人共同研究艺术，体育和文化活动在支持军事向民用过渡中的作用。在伊拉克和阿富汗战争之后，英国退伍军人受到了媒体、政府和公众前所未有的关注。越来越多地利用艺术、体育和文化活动来支持退伍军人;“查理·F的两个世界”等引人注目的戏剧项目和“不可战胜的运动会”等体育活动都是这一新趋势的很好例子。虽然组织使用艺术，体育和文化是受欢迎的退伍军人，他们没有一个强有力的证据基础，我们不明白为什么这些活动可以使退伍军人受益。目前对退伍军人的研究主要是由健康的角度，并侧重于容易衡量的结果，如酗酒率和创伤后应激障碍（PTSD）。这项研究中缺少的是退伍军人的经历，用他们自己的话解释，因为他们适应了平民生活，并理解了他们的新身份。众所周知，退伍军人可能会感到疏远，许多人对失去军事生活方式和军事地位感到悲痛。“过渡时期的故事”项目认识到，成为平民是一个更加复杂的社会和文化过程，超越了住房、就业和医疗保健的需要。该项目旨在探索退伍军人如何通过参与艺术，体育和文化活动以及制作创意纪录片来创作自己的故事。该项目是独一无二的，因为它以创造性和授权的方式与退伍军人接触。与测量工具性过渡的“结果”不同，比如问卷上的分数，我们感兴趣的是过渡本身对退伍军人的真正意义，以及他们认为他们从参与艺术、体育和文化活动中得到了什么。这个跨学科的项目结合了创造性和协作性的研究方法与严格的案例研究设计，以研究三个退伍军人组织在他们的工作中使用帆船，戏剧和考古学。退伍军人的声音是研究过程的核心，他们将与批判性军事研究，参与性艺术和创造性实践方法等领域的研究人员合作，共同制作和共同创作自己的过渡故事，并参与集体反思他们对艺术的参与，体育和文化活动。经过编辑的创意纪录片将分享退伍军人的军事和退役生活的新知识，并展示艺术、体育和文化在支持他们向平民生活过渡方面的作用。这项研究有可能改变我们对艺术，体育和文化活动的过渡和独特机会的理解。在这样做的过程中，它将为合作伙伴组织，退伍军人社区，军事慈善部门，艺术，体育和文化从业者以及更广泛的公众提供关于过渡“是”以及如何最好地利用艺术，体育和文化来支持退伍军人的新知识。