Wellbeing, Support Networks and Expertise on the Seacroft Council Estate, Leeds, 1950s-90s

利兹 Seacroft 议会庄园的福祉、支持网络和专业知识，20 世纪 50 年代至 90 年代

• 批准号: ES/V001329/1
• 负责人: Jessica Hammett
• 金额: $ 30.38万
• 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: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FV001329%2F1
• 关键词: Wellbeing; Support; Networks; Expertise; Seacroft

The second half of the twentieth century witnessed a transformation in the homes, health and wellbeing of British working-class communities. The establishment of the Welfare State and the NHS led to an optimism about the ability of the state to end poverty and ill health, and council houses were constructed on an unprecedented scale, significantly widening access to high-quality housing. Many of these new homes were on large suburban council estates. Yet, in the following decades contemporary commentary about these communities was often critical. There was a concern in the 1950s-60s that suburbanisation had destroyed 'traditional' working-class community networks and caused 'suburban neurosis' amongst lonely housewives, and, from the 1970s, that a collapse in social responsibility had isolated residents through fear of their neighbours. Such sites were repeatedly stigmatised, represented as having low levels of wellbeing and poor access to practical and emotional support from the community. This project examines these changes through co-produced research with residents of the Seacroft estate, Leeds. The small village of Seacroft was massively expanded in the 1950s when construction began on the new council estate. During this project, and in partnership with residents, I will examine how social networks developed, endured and changed in Seacroft from when the estate was first built to the 1990s. In doing so I will reconsider the nature of post-Second World War suburban communities. I will pay attention to complex identities as well as vernacular understandings of class, ethnicity and gender. I will investigate how social networks had a positive or detrimental effect on wellbeing, when support was available within the community and when it was absent. Alongside this, the project will trace changing understandings of mental health and wellbeing in Seacroft, and investigate the role of professional and lay expertise in informing these understandings. The project will develop co-production methods for social historians. I am already working with a women's health discussion group and I will form four more groups to represent a broad range of social groups on the Seacroft estate, many of which rarely have the chance to engage with the university. These groups will be at the core of the project and we will collaboratively develop research questions and aims, analysis and interpretation, and project outputs. We will cross academic/non-academic divides when presenting our research and there will be opportunities for sharing different forms of expertise at conferences and project workshops. A radical reconsideration of ethical practices is at the centre of this project and I will develop new guidelines for participant care and self-care when working on sensitive topics with marginalised groups.There will be a range of outputs aimed at academics, the Seacroft community, and local organisations. I will write articles analysing shifting understandings of and attitudes towards mental health, wellbeing and expertise, and investigating the changing role of friendship and local support networks in wellbeing. In addition, I will write research methodology articles on co-production and ethics which will be of interest to public historians inside and outside the university. A major public output will be produced with and for the Seacroft community, and the form this takes will be decided in collaboration with project participants in response to their needs and wishes. Creative events held throughout the project will disseminate findings as well as generating new research, and the testimony collected will be held in a new archive collection at the West Yorkshire Archives. I will work in partnership with local community and mental health organisations -Chapel FM, Women's Health Matters and the Leeds Older People's Forum - and I will share this research more widely through History & Policy and the What Works Well Centre for Wellbeing.

20世纪下半叶见证了英国工人阶级社区在家庭、健康和福利方面的转变。福利国家和国民健康保险制度的建立使人们对国家消除贫困和疾病的能力持乐观态度，廉租房以前所未有的规模建造，大大扩大了获得高质量住房的机会。这些新房中有许多位于郊区的大型市政地产。然而，在接下来的几十年里，对这些社区的当代评论经常是批评的。在20世纪50 -60年代，人们担心郊区化破坏了“传统的”工人阶级社区网络，并在孤独的家庭主妇中造成了“郊区神经症”，从20世纪70年代开始，社会责任的崩溃使居民因害怕邻居而孤立起来。这些场所一再被污名化，被认为福利水平低，难以获得社区的实际和情感支持。该项目通过与利兹Seacroft地产的居民共同进行的研究来考察这些变化。Seacroft这个小村庄在20世纪50年代大规模扩建，当时新的理事会地产开始建设。在这个项目中，我将与居民合作，研究从Seacroft最初建成到20世纪90年代，社交网络是如何发展、持续和变化的。在此过程中，我将重新考虑二战后郊区社区的性质。我将关注复杂的身份认同，以及对阶级、种族和性别的白话理解。我将调查社交网络如何对幸福感产生积极或有害的影响，当社区内有支持时，当社区内没有支持时。除此之外，该项目还将追踪Seacroft对心理健康和福祉的不断变化的理解，并调查专业和非专业知识在告知这些理解方面的作用。该项目将为社会历史学家开发合作制作方法。我已经在与一个妇女健康讨论小组合作，我将再组建四个小组，以代表Seacroft地产的广泛社会团体，其中许多人很少有机会与大学接触。这些小组将是项目的核心，我们将合作开发研究问题和目标，分析和解释，以及项目产出。在展示我们的研究时，我们将跨越学术/非学术的界限，并将有机会在会议和项目研讨会上分享不同形式的专业知识。对道德实践的彻底反思是这个项目的核心，我将在与边缘群体一起处理敏感话题时，为参与者护理和自我护理制定新的指导方针。将有一系列针对学术界，Seacroft社区和当地组织的产出。我将撰写文章，分析人们对心理健康、幸福和专业知识的理解和态度的转变，并调查友谊和当地支持网络在幸福中不断变化的作用。此外，我将撰写关于合作制作和伦理的研究方法文章，这将使大学内外的公共历史学家感兴趣。将与Seacroft社区一起制作一个主要的公共产出，并为其制作，其形式将与项目参与者合作决定，以响应他们的需求和愿望。在整个项目中举行的创造性活动将传播调查结果并产生新的研究，收集的证词将在西约克郡档案馆的新档案中保存。我将与当地社区和心理健康组织合作——教堂FM、妇女健康问题和利兹老年人论坛——我将通过历史与政策和福利中心更广泛地分享这项研究。

项目成果

Creating the people's war - Civil defence communities in Second World War Britain

创造人民战争 - 第二次世界大战英国的民防社区

• DOI: 10.7765/9781526162427
• 发表时间: 2022
• 作者: Hammett J