Communities in history: representing and building the creative power of people to improve health and well-being

英国的社区正面临压力。地理上的社区被剥夺了资源和理由；职业团结因去工业化、衰退和紧缩而破裂；身份认同社区受到各种形式的社会排斥、剥夺公民权和歧视。全球经济发展颠覆和颠覆了文化、互联互通和意义的历史模式。在“世界的重量”如此沉重的情况下，社区如何生存、适应或抵抗，更不用说蓬勃发展了？在基本福利和服务被削减的情况下，家庭和家庭如何在没有工作的情况下管理？在这种分离和疏远的条件下，个人如何保持任何希望或有意义的目标？有证据表明，为了维持繁荣的社区，公民必须在社区中承担起建设复原力的责任。该项目的目的是：探索来自社区的故事和关于社区的故事如何与复原力和抵抗力的形式联系在一起，并与维持健康和福祉有关；调查这些故事在知识生产、传播和交流中采取的形式，以及它们如何最好地为促进健康和福祉的适当政策、服务和社区行动的发展提供信息。这项建议是为了提供发展赠款，以支持撰写一项更大规模研究的项目提案。该项目有助于互联社区方案开发更细粒度的方式，以了解社区及其联系。我们将结合它们的历史和文化背景，作为更广泛的社会经济结构变化的一部分，并跨越不同的社会和人口群体来研究这些问题。该方案通过其倡议旨在促进社区内的积极关系，从而促进相互团结，帮助克服陈规定型观念、偏见和歧视。在新的知识空间内开发方法和研究工具具有相当大的潜力，这些空间将社区、研究人员和政策制定者联系起来，并最大限度地发挥影响。该项目还试图确定社区如何与政策和公共服务代表合作，为促进健康和社会凝聚力做出贡献；并为社区提供工具，帮助更系统地探索如何最好地改善自己的健康和福祉。在这四个月中，将举行四次会议，将学术研究人员、政策制定者、实践者和社区成员聚集在一起。三个会议将针对具体国家，将有10名申请者以及来自社区、政策和实践界的最多10名关键利益攸关方参加，其中许多人过去已经与申请者共事过。在每一次会议上，一份文件将提供讨论的基础，为制定更大项目的提案提供一个步骤。最后一次会议将包括学术小组，并将提供对国别会议进行思考的机会，提出突出的经验教训和主题，确认项目的主要组成部分。这一过程将意味着该提案将在内部得到充分讨论和商定，并将包括其他利益攸关方的见解和知识，以确保在获得资金的情况下对大型项目产生影响。

Communities in the UK are under pressure. Geographical neighbourhoods are stripped of their resources and their raisons d'etre; occupational solidarity is broken up by de-industrialization, recession and austerity; and communities of identity are subject to various forms of social exclusion, disenfranchisement and discrimination. Historic patterns of culture, connectivity and meaning are churned and turned upside down by global economic developments. With the 'weight of the world' bearing down so heavily, how do communities survive, adapt or resist, let alone flourish? How do families and households manage without work and with cutbacks in essential benefits and services? And how do individuals retain any sense of hope or meaningful purpose in conditions of such separation and alienation? Evidence suggests that to maintain thriving communities, citizens must take ownership of the building of resilience in their communities. The aims of the project are: to explore how stories from and about communities connect with forms of resilience and resistance and relate to the maintenance of health and wellbeing; and to investigate the forms these stories take in knowledge production, dissemination and exchange and how they can best inform the development of appropriate policies, services and community action to promote health and wellbeing.This proposal is for a development grant to support the writing of a project proposal for a larger study.This project contributes to the Connected Communities Programme in developing more fine-grained ways by which communities and their connections can be understood. We will look at these in relation to their historical and cultural contexts, as part of wider social economic structural changes and across different social and demographic groups. The programme through its initiatives aims to foster positive relationships within communities which in turn foster mutual solidarity helping overcome stereotypes, prejudice and discrimination. There is considerable potential for developing methodology and research tools within new knowledge spaces which connect communities, researchers and policy makers and maximise impact. The project also seeks to identify ways in which communities can collaborate with policy and public service representatives to contribute to the promotion of health and social cohesion; and give communities the tools to help explore more systematically how best to make improvements themselves to their health and wellbeing.During the four months four meetings will be held to bring together academic researchers, policy makes, practitioners and community members. Three meetings will be country specific and will involve the 10 applicants plus up to ten key stakeholders from communties, and policy and practice worlds, many of who have already worked with the applicants in the past. At each of these meetings a paper will provide the basis for discussion, providing a step towards the development of the proposal for the larger project. A final meeting will include the academic team and will provide opportunities for reflection on the country-specific meetings, drawing out salient lessons and themes, confirming the main components of the project. The process will mean that the proposal will have been internally fully discussed and agreed, and will include the insights and knowledge of other stakeholders to ensure impact for the large project if it is funded.