Home space? Public and private in new welfare settings

拟议的系列研讨会将探讨在使用公共服务时的“家”和“归属感”，这些公共服务包括儿童保育设施、医院和老年人护理场所，这些服务正在发生重大变化。通过关注“家庭空间”和“居家”的概念，研讨会将提出有关空间内公共和私人生活的更广泛问题。具体来说，该系列将询问谁在这些空间中“有宾至如归的感觉”，以及用户和工作人员如何体验这些空间。它将制定一个新的框架，以了解与提供服务有关的体制、半体制和家庭空间。一系列特别的问题将是当前英国福利国家的全面改革和削减的背景，这可能以不同的方式影响不同的群体。研讨会借鉴了对家庭、公共和私人生活的各种思考方式，包括经常将家庭视为压抑场所的女权主义理论，以及社会政策制定者，他们在设计政策时往往会考虑到家庭和家庭生活的理想模式。这表明“家的空间”具有矛盾的特质，一个群体可能觉得“家”的东西会排斥其他群体。研讨会还借鉴了研究机构内部空间的新方法，例如使用视觉媒体和理解感官和情感方面。该领域的现有研究只关注一种特定类型的空间，例如保育员之家或老年人住房，因此该提案将研究人员和工作人员聚集在一起，关注不同类型的公共服务空间，为不同阶段的不同群体提供服务。在一起考虑这些空间时，研讨会将探讨在公共服务提供中，宾至如归的体验在多大程度上发生了变化，以及不同地区之间有什么不同。研讨会汇集了来自不同学科的研究人员、政策制定者和实践者，以发展新的见解、建立新的联系和制定新的研究议程。将举办五场活动：第一场将围绕家居和家居空间展开理论框架，第二场将探讨家居空间与政策议程和计划的关系，第三场将探讨生命历程不同阶段的“护理”空间，第四场将探讨研究方法，最后一场将反思新的研究议程和问题，供实践者展望未来。研讨会的调查结果将通过一系列出版物、互动网站和摘要小册子传播给其他研究人员、决策者和实践者的不同群体。

The proposed seminar series will explore feelings of 'home' and 'belonging' when using public services, in spaces including childcare settings, hospitals and sites of care for older people, at a time of significant change to such services. Through focusing on ideas of 'home spaces' and 'homeliness' the seminars will ask wider questions about public and private lives within the spaces. Specifically the series will ask who 'feels at home' or not in these spaces and how they are experienced by users and workers. It will develop a new framework for understanding institutional, semi-institutional and domestic spaces in relation to service provision. A particular set of issues will be the context of sweeping change and cuts to the UK welfare state at the present moment, which potentially affects different groups in different ways. The seminars draw on a variety of ways of thinking about home and public and private lives, including feminist theory which has often seen homes as places of repression, and among social policy-makers, who often have aspirational models of home and domestic life in mind when designing policies. This suggests that 'home spaces' have contradictory qualities and that what might feel 'homely' for one group excludes others. The seminars also draw on new approaches to researching spaces within institutions, for example using visual media and understanding sensory and emotional aspects. Existing research in this area has focused only on one particular kind of space, for example childminders' homes or housing for older people, and therefore this proposal is highly innovative in bringing together researchers and workers concerned with different kinds of public service spaces, used by different groups at different stages of life. In considering the spaces together the seminars will ask how far experiences of feeling at home are changing overall within public service provision, and what is different across areas. The seminars bring together researchers from different disciplines, policy makers and practitioners in order to develop new insights, create new connections and develop new research agendas. Five events will be held: the first one will set out theoretical frameworks around homeliness and home spaces, the second will look at home spaces in relation to policy agendas and programmes, the third will will look at spaces of 'care' at different stages of the lifecourse, the fourth will examine research methods and the final one will reflect on new research agendas and issues for practitioners looking forward.Findings from the seminars will be disseminated to diverse groups of other researchers, policy makers, and practitioners, via a range of publications, an interactive website and a summary pamphlet.