Children's Leisurescapes and Parenting Strategies in Middle-Class British Indian Families: Building Knowledge, Impact and Skills

这项职业发展奖学金将使我能够巩固我的博士工作，使我的研究影响到学术界以外的更广泛的受益者，提高我的技能，并促进我向以研究为中心的学术生涯过渡。在攻读社会学博士学位期间，我从英国8- 12岁的英裔印度儿童及其职业中产阶级父母的角度研究了他们的日常休闲活动。我的定性研究结果为中产阶级少数民族父母的养育策略、儿童在休闲空间中的种族主义体验以及休闲在塑造当代儿童和父母关系中的重要作用提供了见解。在这个研究基础上，我想优化这个奖学金提供的资源，开展一个有组织的活动项目，这将提高我在学术界的就业能力。首先，我想利用奖学金的时间来巩固我的发表记录。我将向《儿童》杂志提交一篇方法论文章（影响因子：1.957），并撰写我的专著，这将是我博士论文的实质性发展。帕尔格雷夫·麦克米伦已经对他们的《童年批判文化研究》系列丛书的专题研究项目表示了兴趣。除了这些计划出版的学术刊物外，我还将在四个主要会议上作口头报告，并参加学术讲座和研讨会，参与学术对话。这些学术倡议将使我能够影响未来的学术，并帮助我在我的研究领域建立自己的声誉。其次，我渴望将我的研究成果带给学术界以外的利益相关者。我想让休闲行业机构和英裔印度人社区组织参与进来，在奖学金期间开展影响活动。我将在首席文化与休闲官协会（CLOA）、WiHTL、英国印度妇女、伦敦经济学院南亚和Sampad南亚艺术组织的博客和通讯上发表研究报告。此外，我将在伦敦尼赫鲁中心（印度高级专员公署的文化部门）发表关于英属印度人童年的演讲，并在WiHTL关于休闲行业种族和民族多样性的研讨会上发表另一篇演讲。我还将通过南安普顿印度包容性增长和可持续发展中心参与网络活动。我将为该中心目前正在开展的一项关于英裔印度人对英国经济的贡献的倡议做出贡献。这些活动将磨练我对如何实现研究影响的理解，这对我未来的学术生涯至关重要。第三，我想通过在两个主要领域进行进一步的培训来提高我的方法论技能：人种学方法和使用NVivo软件进行定性数据分析（见附件中的支持案例）。这些技能将使我能够教授研究方法课程，也将使我在争取重大项目的竞争性研究经费方面处于有利地位，从而提高我在学术界的就业能力。第四，我将在第二学期在我所在的院系进行教学和监督。南安普顿大学目前暂停了关于种族和民族的第二年社会学课程。利用我在这个领域的专业知识，我将教授这个模块。我也将支持指导本科生和教授研究生的论文。这些教学和督导经验将为我的简历增光添辉，并增加我在学术界获得教学和研究职位的机会。最后，我将寻求我的导师罗莎琳德·爱德华兹教授的建议，为我的学术生涯奠定下一步。这将包括审查出现的工作机会，并在准备研究奖学金和讲师职位的申请材料方面征求她的建议。

This career development fellowship will enable me to consolidate my PhD work, bring the impact of my research to a wider set of beneficiaries beyond the academia, enhance my skill set and facilitate my transition into a research-focused academic career. For my doctorate in sociology, I studied everyday leisure practices of 8-to-12-year-old British Indian children in the UK from the perspective of both the children and their professional middle-class parents. The findings of my qualitative study provide insights into parenting strategies of middle-class ethnic minority parents, children's experiences of racism in leisure spaces and the significant role leisure plays in shaping contemporary childhoods and parenthoods. Building on this research base, I want to optimise the resources made available by this fellowship to undertake a programme of structured activities that will boost my employability in the academia.Firstly, I want to utilise the time of the fellowship to consolidate my publication record. I will submit a methodological article to the journal Childhood (impact factor: 1.957) and work on my monograph which will be a substantial development of my PhD thesis. Palgrave Macmillan has already expressed interest in the monograph project under their Critical Cultural Studies of Childhood book series. Alongside these planned academic publications, I will deliver oral presentations at four major conferences and participate in academic dialogues by attending academic talks and workshops. These academic initiatives will enable me to influence future scholarship as well as help me to establish my reputation within my field of research.Secondly, I am keen to bring the impact of my research to stakeholders outside the academia. I want to engage leisure industry bodies and British Indian community organisations through a programme of impact activities spread across the fellowship period. I will publish research-informed write-ups for the blogs and newsletters of Chief Cultural & Leisure Officers Association (CLOA), WiHTL, Indian Ladies in the UK, South Asia @ LSE and Sampad South Asian Arts Organisation. Additionally, I will give a talk about British Indian childhoods at Nehru Centre London (the cultural wing of the Indian High Commission) and another talk at a WiHTL workshop on racial and ethnic diversity in leisure industries. I will also engage in networking events through Southampton India Centre for Inclusive Growth and Sustainable Development. I will contribute to an initiative the Centre is currently developing about the contribution of British Indians to the UK economy. These activities will hone my understanding of how to achieve research impact - which will be crucial in my future academic career.Thirdly, I want to enhance my methodological skills by undertaking further training in two main areas: ethnographic methods and the use of NVivo software for qualitative data analysis (see Case for Support, attached). These skills will enable me to teach research methods courses and they will also put me in good stead in securing competitive research funding for major projects, thus boosting my employability within the academia.Fourthly, I will undertake teaching and supervision in my host department over Semester 2. The 2nd year sociology module on race and ethnicity is currently suspended at Southampton. Drawing upon my expertise in the field, I will teach this module. I will also support the supervision of undergraduate and taught postgraduate dissertations. These teaching and supervision experiences will add greatly to my CV and boost my chances of securing a teaching-cum-research position in the academia.Lastly, I will seek the advice of my mentor Prof Rosalind Edwards to lay the next steps in my academic career. This will involve reviewing job opportunities as they arise and seeking her advice on preparing application materials for research fellowships and lectureships.