Spatialities of homeworking and wellbeing: the case of the independent creative worker

家庭工作和幸福感的空间：独立创意工作者的案例

• 批准号: 2430553
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Royal Holloway University of London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 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=studentship-2430553
• 关键词: Spatialities; homeworking; wellbeing; case; independent

The flexibility gifted by the rise of media technologies has seen the number of people working from home almost double over the last decade. Unaffiliated with an organisation and often characterised by precarious working conditions, independent workers are a growing segment of the workforce, and epitomise this trend towards individualised and lone work often conducted in people's own homes. Wellbeing-related concerns regarding independent home-based work have been raised, with specific attention drawn to the potential problems facing creative workers, who constitute a large proportion of the labour behind the UK's growing creative industry. This is because it has been argued that, flexible creative work, unbound by physical space and entangled with the non-economic lives of its practitioners, threatens to disrupt the sanctity of home life, with consequences for mental health. However, there is yet to be a rigorous investigation into the impact of this style and type of work on wellbeing.Responding to these trends and addressing this gap in research, the project will investigate the implications of this spatial conflation of the two spheres of work and home for the wellbeing of home-based independent creative workers. To do so, it will employ Fleuret and Atkinson's (2007) 'spaces of wellbeing' framework to foreground the interrelationship between space and wellbeing. As well as contributing to the ESRC's priority to research the changing nature and location of employment, the project will add to various academic literatures, both across Human Geography and the interdisciplinary field of work and employment research. Firstly, it will contribute to a growing focus on wellbeing in Geography by studying the effects of particular contexts on individual wellbeing. Secondly, engaging with the Critical Geographies of Creativity, it will help to reconcile disagreements within literature regarding the wellbeing of creative workers. Thirdly, by focusing on the key figure of the independent creative worker, it will answer calls within the sub-field of Economic Geography to attend to the trend towards individualised work conducted within the home and its consequences for wellbeing. Finally, by utilising geographical understandings of the dynamics of space, it will also contribute to Organisational Studies work that is conceptualising and considering the impact of the spatial processes of homeworking.Adopting a qualitative methodology to assess wellbeing subjectively, the research will align with current trends within Social Geography. Innovative and multi-modal, the methodology will firstly use participant-led video diaries to access the complexity and spatial interactions of the everyday experiences of home-based independent creative workers. Subsequently, follow-up narrative interviews will be conducted with each participant to discuss excerpts from the video diaries and further explore the relationship between their homeworking practices and wellbeing. Both sets of data will be subject to thematic, discourse and case study analysis. The Association of Independent Professionals and the Self-Employed (IPSE), and StoryFutures, an enterprise supporting the creative 'Gateway Cluster' to the west of London, are collaborative partners on this project and will contribute to its success. As well as supporting the recruitment process and helping to connect the project with industry and policy institutions, both partnerships will enable the project to have societal impact. This will be achieved by feeding into IPSE's work representing creative workers and supporting the wellbeing of independent workers, and StoryFutures' work concerning wellbeing and the development of business models in the creative cluster. In addition to a thesis, the research will also inform a policy brief that will be co-authored with IPSE. An event will be held at the end of the project to help socialise subsequent materials and ideas and engage stakeholders.

媒体技术兴起的灵活性使过去十年中在家工作的人数几乎翻了一番。独立的工人不与组织结立，通常以不稳定的工作条件为特征，是劳动力的越来越多，并体现了这种经常在人们自己的家中进行的个性化和孤独工作的趋势。已经提出了有关独立家庭工作的与福利有关的关注，特别注意创意工作者面临的潜在问题，这些问题构成了英国不断发展的创意产业背后的大部分劳动力。这是因为有人认为，灵活的创意工作，不受物理空间的影响，并纠缠于其从业者的非经济生活，威胁要破坏家庭生活的神圣性，并对心理健康产生后果。但是，尚未对这种风格和工作类型对健康的影响进行严格的调查。对这些趋势进行辩论并解决研究中的这一差距，该项目将调查这两个工作领域的空间汇合以及家庭基于家庭独立创意工作者福祉的空间汇合的含义。为此，它将采用Fleuret和Atkinson（2007）的“福利空间”框架来预示太空与福祉之间的相互关系。除了促进ESRC的优先研究以研究不断变化的就业性质和位置的优先事项外，该项目还将增加人类地理位置和跨学科工作和就业研究领域的各种学术文献。首先，它将通过研究特定环境对个体健康的影响，将越来越多地关注地理环境。其次，参与创造力的关键地理，这将有助于调和有关创意工作者福祉的文献中的分歧。第三，通过关注独立创意工作者的关键人物，它将在经济地理的子场内接听电话，以关注家庭内部进行个性化工作及其对幸福感的趋势。最后，通过利用对空间动力学的地理理解，它还将有助于组织研究工作，这些工作正在概念化并考虑家庭作业的空间过程的影响。采用定性方法来主观评估健康，研究将与当前社交地理学的趋势保持一致。该方法创新和多模式，首先将使用参与者主导的视频日记来访问家庭基于家庭独立创意工作者日常体验的复杂性和空间互动。随后，将与每个参与者进行后续叙事访谈，以讨论视频日记中的摘录，并进一步探讨他们的家庭工作实践与福祉之间的关系。两组数据都将受主题，话语和案例研究分析的约束。独立专业人员与自雇人士（IPSE）和伦敦西部的创意“网关群集”的企业的企业与Storyfutures的协会是该项目的合作伙伴，并将为其成功做出贡献。除了支持招聘流程并帮助将项目与行业和政策机构联系起来，这两个合作伙伴关系还将使该项目产生社会影响。这将通过介绍代表创意工作者并支持独立工人的福祉的IPSE的工作以及故事创作方面的福祉和创意集群中商业模式发展的工作来实现。除论文外，该研究还将为将与IPSE合着的政策摘要提供信息。将在项目结束时举行活动，以帮助社交后续的材料和思想并吸引利益相关者。