Home space? Public and private in new welfare settings

拟议的研讨会系列将探讨在使用公共服务时的“家”和“归属感”，包括儿童保育场所，医院和老年人护理场所，在这些服务发生重大变化的时候。通过关注“家庭空间”和“家庭”的想法，研讨会将提出有关空间内公共和私人生活的更广泛的问题。具体来说，该系列将询问谁在这些空间中“感觉像在家一样”，以及用户和工人如何体验这些空间。它将制定一个新的框架，以了解与提供服务有关的机构、半机构和家庭空间。一系列特殊的问题将是目前英国福利国家的全面变革和削减的背景，这可能会以不同的方式影响不同的群体。研讨会借鉴了对家庭、公共生活和私人生活的各种思考方式，包括女权主义理论，该理论往往将家庭视为压抑的场所，以及社会政策制定者，他们在制定政策时往往考虑到家庭和家庭生活的理想模式。这表明，“家的空间”具有矛盾的性质，对一个群体来说可能感觉“家”的东西排除了其他人。研讨会还借鉴了研究机构内空间的新方法，例如使用视觉媒体和理解感官和情感方面。这一领域的现有研究只集中于一种特定的空间，例如儿童保育员之家或老年人住房，因此，这一建议具有高度的创新性，将关注不同群体在不同生活阶段使用的不同类型公共服务空间的研究人员和工作人员聚集在一起。在考虑空间在一起的研讨会将问有多远的感觉在家里的经验正在改变整体内提供公共服务，以及有什么不同的地区。研讨会汇集了来自不同学科的研究人员，决策者和从业人员，以发展新的见解，建立新的联系和制定新的研究议程。将举办五项活动：第一个将围绕家庭和家庭空间提出理论框架，第二个将着眼于家庭空间与政策议程和方案的关系，第三个将着眼于生命过程不同阶段的“照顾”空间，第四个研讨会将审查研究方法，最后一个研讨会将反映新的研究议程和从业人员展望的问题。研讨会的结果将分发给通过一系列出版物、一个互动网站和一本摘要小册子，与其他研究人员、政策制定者和从业人员组成的各种团体进行交流。

The proposed seminar series will explore feelings of 'home' and 'belonging' when using public services, in spaces including childcare settings, hospitals and sites of care for older people, at a time of significant change to such services. Through focusing on ideas of 'home spaces' and 'homeliness' the seminars will ask wider questions about public and private lives within the spaces. Specifically the series will ask who 'feels at home' or not in these spaces and how they are experienced by users and workers. It will develop a new framework for understanding institutional, semi-institutional and domestic spaces in relation to service provision. A particular set of issues will be the context of sweeping change and cuts to the UK welfare state at the present moment, which potentially affects different groups in different ways. The seminars draw on a variety of ways of thinking about home and public and private lives, including feminist theory which has often seen homes as places of repression, and among social policy-makers, who often have aspirational models of home and domestic life in mind when designing policies. This suggests that 'home spaces' have contradictory qualities and that what might feel 'homely' for one group excludes others. The seminars also draw on new approaches to researching spaces within institutions, for example using visual media and understanding sensory and emotional aspects. Existing research in this area has focused only on one particular kind of space, for example childminders' homes or housing for older people, and therefore this proposal is highly innovative in bringing together researchers and workers concerned with different kinds of public service spaces, used by different groups at different stages of life. In considering the spaces together the seminars will ask how far experiences of feeling at home are changing overall within public service provision, and what is different across areas. The seminars bring together researchers from different disciplines, policy makers and practitioners in order to develop new insights, create new connections and develop new research agendas. Five events will be held: the first one will set out theoretical frameworks around homeliness and home spaces, the second will look at home spaces in relation to policy agendas and programmes, the third will will look at spaces of 'care' at different stages of the lifecourse, the fourth will examine research methods and the final one will reflect on new research agendas and issues for practitioners looking forward.Findings from the seminars will be disseminated to diverse groups of other researchers, policy makers, and practitioners, via a range of publications, an interactive website and a summary pamphlet.