Feeling Towns: the role of place and identity in governance and local policy

强调文化政策举措中的自豪感和地位已经变得司空见惯-例如，这是2021年升级计划书的核心。然而，在政策文件、实践和评估中，公民自豪感和地方依恋的概念、经验和机制往往没有得到界定和审查。同样，它的社会政治意义和价值观充其量是有争议的，最坏的情况是没有探讨，甚至被忽视。该项目将利用我们现有的关于城镇，自豪感和指标的研究，与主要合作伙伴和广泛的实践社区合作，创造性地共同探索公民自豪感的方法和指标，并进行地方依恋监测，评估和报告。我们认为这是一个机会，可以分享定性方法和指标的价值和范围，这些方法和指标可以补充更占主导地位的文化计量经济学方法，该项目将学术研究纳入与国家文化机构和地方当局的对话中，以交流有关地方依恋之间相互关系的知识。（被理解为人与地方之间的情感纽带）和当地文化生态的健康。此次合作将直接说明与我们的合作伙伴建立的一套共同制作的评估指标的需求，以了解自豪感和地位。

The emphasis on pride and place in cultural policy initiatives has become commonplace - it is, for example, core to the 2021 Levelling Up Prospectus. Yet the concept, experience, and mechanics of civic pride and place attachment often remain undefined and unexamined in policy documents, practice and evaluations. Likewise, its socio-political meanings and values are at best contested and at worst unexplored or even ignored. This project will use our existing research on towns, pride and metrics to work with lead partners and a broad community of practice to creatively and collectively explore methods and metrics of civic pride and place attachment monitoring, evaluating and reporting. We understand this to be an opportunity to share the value and range of qualitative methods and metrics which can complement the more dominant econometric approaches towards culture, regeneration and local economies.The project brings academic research into conversation with national cultural bodies and local authorities to exchange knowledge regarding the correlation between place attachment (understood as the emotional bond between people and place) and the health of local cultural ecologies. The collaboration will speak directly to the need, established with our partners, for a set of co-produced evaluative metrics for understanding pride and place.