Bringing the Homefront to the Forefront: Understanding the academia-policy gap by centring lived experiences of military families in welfare provision

将后方带到最前线：通过将军人家庭的生活经验集中在福利提供上来理解学术界与政策之间的差距

• 批准号: ES/V011111/1
• 负责人: Emma Long
• 金额: $ 13.16万
• 依托单位: University of York
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Fellowship
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FV011111%2F1
• 关键词: Bringing; Homefront; Forefront; Understanding; academia

ContextAlthough the British military relies upon the practical and emotional labour of partners of serving personnel to maintain operational effectiveness, their needs are continually over-looked and treated as tertiary to military objectives. The state pays considerable lip service and publicises the idea of supporting MFs, e.g. through the Armed Forces Covenant, but there is a gap between this discourse and reality. This has been markedly evidenced by the absence of family-specific recommendations in the recent Veterans Consultation. Furthermore, my PhD research found that there has been no considered review of the effectiveness of the overall welfare framework available to MFs - and success appears to be measured by the retention figures of serving personnel. Thus, voices and perspectives of MFs continue to go unheard, certain issues barely acknowledged and, at worst, denied. AimsThis Fellowship will extend the scope of my PhD through a focused exploration of the relationship between the academy and policy by engaging with key stakeholders including academics from diverse approaches (e.g. quantitative/qualitative, critical/problem-solving), and policy-influencers (e.g. policy-makers, the MoD, related charities, practitioners, MPs and activists). It will spark a debate between the various approaches in academia and policy by exploring (dis)similarity between these stakeholders' identification of issues facing MFs, their foci, proposed solutions, and theoretical framework. Specifically, it will investigate the barriers and opportunities towards aligning policy and (multiple) academic narratives. I aim to encourage policy-influencers/makers to take seriously MFs' issues, and to explore ways in which MFs' voices and experiences may be better heard and understood, and thus centred within policy. Indeed, my thesis found that policy-influencers more often engage with academia that takes a quantitative approach and does not question military processes (e.g. approaches evident in some psychological and medical research) - obscuring findings, debates, and perspectives evidenced in approaches which place military processes at the heart of enquiry. This exploratory research will be achieved through the following: 1. Revisiting data collected during the PhD with support providers to develop additional innovative insights into support provision available for MFs. Gaps will be addressed through a further 5 interviews with policy-influencers;2. Organising a conference presenting research examining the lives of MFs from different academic approaches (e.g. quantitative/qualitative, problem-solving/critical, medical/social) and associated opportunities/barriers towards engaging with policy; 3. Developing a report of the key findings around the identified academia-policy relationship;4. Developing a journal article outlining the relationship between academic approaches and policy. Throughout this Fellowship I will further establish myself within the academic sphere by maximising networking opportunities afforded by the activities outlined above, and revising/resubmitting three journal articles (submitted prior to the start of the Fellowship). Therefore, this Fellowship will enable me to build and enhance my profile as a newly qualified academic, conduct a small amount of additional research, and provide networking and dissemination opportunities to both academic and non-academic audiences.Future DirectionThis exploratory work builds the necessary foundations for defining and applying for future research. Upon identifying some of the barriers towards aligning academia and policy narratives, I will develop an application to Leverhulme's Early Career Fellowship order to explore this area in greater detail with a larger range of stakeholders (expected submission: Feb 2022).

尽管英国军队依靠服役人员伙伴的实际和情感劳动来维持作战效能，但他们的需求不断被忽视，并被视为军事目标的第三位。国家在口头上提供了相当多的服务，并宣传了支持多边基金的想法，例如通过武装部队盟约，但这种说法与现实之间存在差距。最近的退伍军人协商中没有提出针对家庭的建议，这明显地证明了这一点。此外，我的博士研究发现，一直没有考虑审查的整体福利框架提供给多边基金的有效性-和成功似乎是衡量在职人员的保留数字。因此，多边基金的声音和观点仍然得不到倾听，某些问题几乎得不到承认，最坏的情况是被否认。AimsThis奖学金将通过与关键利益相关者，包括来自不同方法的学者（例如定量/定性，批判/解决问题）和政策影响者（例如政策制定者，国防部，相关慈善机构，从业者，国会议员和活动家）的参与，重点探索学院与政策之间的关系，从而扩大我的博士学位范围。它将通过探讨这些利益攸关方对多边基金面临的问题、其重点、拟议的解决方案和理论框架的认识之间的相似性，引发学术界和政策界各种方法之间的辩论。具体而言，它将调查调整政策和（多种）学术叙述的障碍和机会。我的目标是鼓励政策影响者/决策者认真对待多边基金的问题，并探讨如何更好地听取和理解多边基金的声音和经验，从而使其成为政策的核心。事实上，我的论文发现，政策影响者更经常与学术界接触，采取定量方法，不质疑军事过程（例如，在一些心理学和医学研究中明显的方法）-模糊的发现，辩论和观点证明了将军事过程置于调查核心的方法。本探索性研究将通过以下几个方面来实现：1.与支持提供者一起重新审视博士期间收集的数据，以开发更多的创新见解，为MF提供支持。差距将通过与政策影响者的进一步5次访谈来解决;2.组织一次会议，介绍从不同学术方法（例如定量/定性，解决问题/批判，医学/社会）研究MFs的生活以及参与政策的相关机会/障碍; 3.围绕已确定的政策关系编写一份关键调查结果报告;4.撰写一篇期刊文章，概述学术方法与政策之间的关系。在整个奖学金期间，我将通过最大限度地利用上述活动提供的网络机会，并修改/重新提交三篇期刊文章（在奖学金开始之前提交），进一步在学术领域建立自己。因此，这个奖学金将使我能够建立和提高我的个人资料作为一个新的合格的学术，进行少量的额外的研究，并提供网络和传播的机会，以学术和非学术audios.Future DirectionThis探索性的工作建立必要的基础，定义和申请未来的研究。在确定了一些对学术界和政策叙事对齐的障碍后，我将开发一个应用程序，以Leverhulme的早期职业奖学金，以更详细地探索这一领域与更大范围的利益相关者（预计提交：2022年2月）。

项目成果

Maximising Operational Effectiveness: Exploring Stigma, Militarism, and the Normative Connections to Military Partners' Support-Seeking

最大限度地提高作战效率：探索耻辱、军国主义以及与军事伙伴寻求支持的规范联系

• DOI: 10.1177/00380385211033170
• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: Sociology
• 影响因子: 2.9
• 作者: Long E

Living Liminal Lives: Army Partners' Spatiotemporal Experiences of Deployment

• DOI: 10.1177/0095327x21995966
• 发表时间: 2021-03-03
• 期刊: ARMED FORCES & SOCIETY
• 影响因子: 1.4
• 作者: Long, Emma

Older veterans: The materiality of reminiscence, making unknown histories knowable and forging social connections

老退伍军人：回忆的物质性，让未知的历史变得可知并建立社会联系

• DOI: 10.1177/17506980211024317
• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: Memory Studies
• 影响因子: 1.1
• 作者: Long E