Mixed-income communities and the wellbeing of low-income young people

混合收入社区和低收入年轻人的福祉

• 批准号: ES/X005356/1
• 负责人: Rana Khazbak
• 金额: $ 13.83万
• 依托单位: King's College London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Fellowship
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FX005356%2F1
• 关键词: Mixed; income; communities; wellbeing; low

This fellowship aims to contribute to academic debate and research-informed policy and practice around young people's experiences of social housing estates being regenerated into mixed income communities. This will be achieved through a package of research dissemination and knowledge exchange activities that will increase the social impact of my doctoral research and facilitate its uptake by academics, policy makers, practitioners and communities. My doctoral research revealed that working class teenagers are not reaping the benefits of transforming deprived council estates into socio-economically mixed communities. On the contrary, it seems that the regeneration processes further restricting their opportunities and ability to live a good life. My PhD aimed to give prominence to youth voices in understanding how their neighbourhood affects their wellbeing. To that end I spent 12 months in 2018/19 conducting immersive fieldwork in an inner-London council estate that has been turned into a mixed community. I volunteered at the local youth centre and engaged 40 young people (12-19 years) in partiticaptory activities and group discussions. I also interviewed 36 adult stakeholders, including regeneration decision makers and local service providers. Findings showed that, contrary to policy expectations, young people are not able to benefit from the new facilties and improvements in their area and that their wellbeing is undermined by increasing social inequalities and divisions, their exclusion from public spaces and local decision making and their diminishing sense of belonging.These findings have clear implications for the policy and practice of social housing redevelopment, particularly in London and other cities of Western countries where social mix is a common feature of urban regeneration. They are also of relevance to academic debates and literatures on community and place, youth wellbeing and the use of collaborative participatory research methods.Building on my PhD work, this fellowship aims to: (a) enhance the understanding of the influence of mixed communities regeneration on working class young people's wellbeing; (b) advance a conceptualisation of youth wellbeing that foregrounds their lived experiences; (c) contribute to the literature on youth-centred participatory methodology; (d) promote youth-inclusive social housing regeneration policy and practice; and (e) create opportunities for future research collaborations. These aims will be achieved through a programme of activities that include developing academic publications, presenting at conferences and seminars, organising knowledge exchange events with young people, policy makers, practitioners, campaigners and interest groups, co-producing a manifesto for youth-inclusive regeneration policy and practice, writing for a wider audience, scoping post-fellowship research plans and initiating forums for discussions with colleagues about directions for future projects.

该奖学金旨在促进学术辩论和研究知情的政策和做法，围绕年轻人的经验，社会住房被再生为混合收入社区。这将通过一系列研究传播和知识交流活动来实现，这些活动将增加我的博士研究的社会影响，并促进学术界，政策制定者，从业者和社区的吸收。我的博士研究表明，工人阶级的青少年并没有从将贫困的理事会庄园转变为社会经济混合社区中获益。相反，再生进程似乎进一步限制了他们过上美好生活的机会和能力。我的博士学位旨在突出青年的声音，了解他们的邻居如何影响他们的福祉。为此，我在2018/19年度花了12个月的时间在伦敦市中心的一个理事会庄园进行沉浸式实地考察，该庄园已经变成了一个混合社区。我在当地的青年中心做志愿者，让40名年轻人（12-19岁）参加了分组活动和小组讨论。我还采访了36名成年利益相关者，包括再生决策者和当地服务提供者。调查结果显示，与政策预期相反，青年人无法从他们所在地区的新设施和改善中受益，他们的福祉受到社会不平等和分裂加剧、被排除在公共空间和地方决策之外以及归属感下降的影响。这些调查结果对社会住房重建的政策和实践具有明显的影响，特别是在伦敦和西方国家的其他城市，社会融合是城市复兴的共同特征。他们也是相关的学术辩论和文献的社区和地方，青年福祉和使用的合作参与研究方法。在我的博士工作的基础上，这个奖学金的目的是：（a）提高对混合社区再生工人阶级青年福祉的影响的理解;（B）推进青年福祉的概念化，突出他们的生活经验;（c）为有关以青年为中心的参与式方法的文献作出贡献;（d）促进包容青年的社会住房更新政策和做法;（e）为今后的研究合作创造机会。这些目标将通过一项活动方案来实现，其中包括编写学术出版物，在会议和研讨会上发言，组织与年轻人、决策者、从业人员、活动家和利益集团的知识交流活动，共同编写包容青年的再生政策和实践宣言，为更广泛的受众写作，确定研究金后研究计划的范围，并发起论坛，与同事讨论未来项目的方向。