Children's Leisurescapes and Parenting Strategies in Middle-Class British Indian Families: Building Knowledge, Impact and Skills

这一职业发展奖学金将使我能够巩固我的博士工作，将我的研究的影响带给学术界以外的更广泛的受益者，提高我的技能，并促进我过渡到以研究为重点的学术职业。在我的社会学博士学位期间，我从孩子和他们专业的中产阶级父母的角度研究了在英国的8至12岁英裔印度儿童的日常休闲实践。我的定性研究结果为中产阶级少数族裔父母的育儿策略、儿童在休闲空间中的种族主义经历以及休闲在塑造当代童年和父母方式中所起的重要作用提供了洞察。在这项研究的基础上，我想充分利用这项奖学金提供的资源，开展一项有组织的活动计划，以提高我在学术界的就业能力。首先，我想利用这笔奖学金的时间来巩固我的出版记录。我将向《童年》杂志提交一篇方法论文章(影响系数：1.957)，并撰写我的专著，这将是我博士论文的实质性发展。帕尔格雷夫·麦克米伦已经表达了对他们的儿童批评文化研究系列丛书下的专著项目的兴趣。除了这些计划出版的学术出版物外，我还将在四个主要会议上发表口头演讲，并通过参加学术讲座和研讨会参加学术对话。这些学术倡议将使我能够影响未来的学术研究，并帮助我在我的研究领域建立我的声誉。第二，我热衷于将我的研究影响带给学术界以外的利益相关者。我希望通过一项覆盖整个团契期间的影响力活动计划，让休闲行业团体和英属印度社区组织参与进来。我将为首席文化与休闲官员协会(CLOA)、WiHTL、英国印度女性、南亚@LSE和Sampad南亚艺术组织的博客和时事通讯发表有研究见识的文章。此外，我将在伦敦尼赫鲁中心(印度高级专员公署的文化分支机构)发表关于英裔印第安人童年的演讲，并在WiHTL关于休闲产业种族和民族多样性的研讨会上发表另一篇演讲。我还将通过南安普敦印度包容性增长和可持续发展中心参与网络活动。我将为该中心目前正在开发的一项关于英属印度人对英国经济的贡献的倡议做出贡献。这些活动将磨练我对如何实现研究影响的理解--这在我未来的学术生涯中将是至关重要的。第三，我想通过在两个主要领域进行进一步的培训来提高我的方法技能：人种学方法和使用NVivo软件进行定性数据分析(见附件中的支持案例)。这些技能将使我能够教授研究方法课程，它们也将使我在重大项目上获得有竞争力的研究资金，从而提高我在学术界的就业能力。第四，我将在第二学期在我所在的系担任教学和监督工作。关于种族和民族的社会学二年级模块目前在南安普敦停课。利用我在该领域的专业知识，我将教授这一模块。我还将支持本科生和讲授的研究生学位论文的督导。这些教学和指导经验将大大增加我的简历，并增加我在学术界获得教学和研究职位的机会。最后，我将征求我的导师罗莎琳德·爱德华兹教授的建议，为我的学术生涯奠定下一步。这将包括在出现工作机会时审查，并就准备研究奖学金和讲师职位的申请材料征求她的意见。

This career development fellowship will enable me to consolidate my PhD work, bring the impact of my research to a wider set of beneficiaries beyond the academia, enhance my skill set and facilitate my transition into a research-focused academic career. For my doctorate in sociology, I studied everyday leisure practices of 8-to-12-year-old British Indian children in the UK from the perspective of both the children and their professional middle-class parents. The findings of my qualitative study provide insights into parenting strategies of middle-class ethnic minority parents, children's experiences of racism in leisure spaces and the significant role leisure plays in shaping contemporary childhoods and parenthoods. Building on this research base, I want to optimise the resources made available by this fellowship to undertake a programme of structured activities that will boost my employability in the academia.Firstly, I want to utilise the time of the fellowship to consolidate my publication record. I will submit a methodological article to the journal Childhood (impact factor: 1.957) and work on my monograph which will be a substantial development of my PhD thesis. Palgrave Macmillan has already expressed interest in the monograph project under their Critical Cultural Studies of Childhood book series. Alongside these planned academic publications, I will deliver oral presentations at four major conferences and participate in academic dialogues by attending academic talks and workshops. These academic initiatives will enable me to influence future scholarship as well as help me to establish my reputation within my field of research.Secondly, I am keen to bring the impact of my research to stakeholders outside the academia. I want to engage leisure industry bodies and British Indian community organisations through a programme of impact activities spread across the fellowship period. I will publish research-informed write-ups for the blogs and newsletters of Chief Cultural & Leisure Officers Association (CLOA), WiHTL, Indian Ladies in the UK, South Asia @ LSE and Sampad South Asian Arts Organisation. Additionally, I will give a talk about British Indian childhoods at Nehru Centre London (the cultural wing of the Indian High Commission) and another talk at a WiHTL workshop on racial and ethnic diversity in leisure industries. I will also engage in networking events through Southampton India Centre for Inclusive Growth and Sustainable Development. I will contribute to an initiative the Centre is currently developing about the contribution of British Indians to the UK economy. These activities will hone my understanding of how to achieve research impact - which will be crucial in my future academic career.Thirdly, I want to enhance my methodological skills by undertaking further training in two main areas: ethnographic methods and the use of NVivo software for qualitative data analysis (see Case for Support, attached). These skills will enable me to teach research methods courses and they will also put me in good stead in securing competitive research funding for major projects, thus boosting my employability within the academia.Fourthly, I will undertake teaching and supervision in my host department over Semester 2. The 2nd year sociology module on race and ethnicity is currently suspended at Southampton. Drawing upon my expertise in the field, I will teach this module. I will also support the supervision of undergraduate and taught postgraduate dissertations. These teaching and supervision experiences will add greatly to my CV and boost my chances of securing a teaching-cum-research position in the academia.Lastly, I will seek the advice of my mentor Prof Rosalind Edwards to lay the next steps in my academic career. This will involve reviewing job opportunities as they arise and seeking her advice on preparing application materials for research fellowships and lectureships.