HIGHLIGHT CPC- Connecting Generations Centre

连接世代中心（CGC）将研究不同世代的连接方式，以及这些连接如何形成，以及如何被社会、人口和经济变化所塑造。不同世代的人结合起来互相帮助，社会就会受益。考虑到这一点，中心的总目标是通过密切注意代际活动所起的作用来改善现在和将来的社会。为了改善社会，我们需要清楚地了解不同代人的生活水平是如何变化的。我们需要了解经济衰退、工作不安全感、英国脱欧和2019冠状病毒病等社会和经济冲击对各代际群体的不同影响。我们还需要知道几代人是如何相互支持的，例如，通过交换财富、知识、时间和住房，并了解他们的相对政治和社会影响。通过增加我们的知识，我们可以确定最有可能需要支持的群体。不同的世代在他们人生的不同阶段互相提供经济、情感和实际的支持。这种支持通常在人们生活的不同时期提供：离开家、与伴侣同居或分居、生孩子、进入和离开工作、继续在社区独立生活或进入寄宿护理。这些重大的生活事件不是孤立发生的；它们受到我们的健康、经济生活水平、社会网络和个人适应能力的影响，并对我们产生了影响。它们可能因我们的移民身份、种族以及我们居住或来自哪里而有所不同。CG中心的研究将集中在所有这些领域，我们的研究成果可以用来制定高效和有效的社会政策，并帮助商业创新。CG中心出现在我们社会历史上的关键时刻。英国脱欧和2019冠状病毒病大流行使得该中心了解现有不平等现象并预测新出现的不平等现象的工作更加紧迫。环境退化和气候变化等更广泛的全球问题使我们更加关注我们给子孙后代留下了什么，以及他们如何在改变的环境条件下进行管理。本届政府的“升级”议程承诺要传播繁荣和机遇。英国脱欧和新冠肺炎疫情带来的限制已经并将继续以各种方式影响不同的世代和群体。这些对我们的社会和经济功能的“冲击”的结果可能会使我们越来越难以实现升级的愿望。我们需要实施有针对性的、以证据为基础的政策。为了提供这一重要的研究证据，新的CG中心将汇集来自人口变化中心（南安普顿大学、圣安德鲁斯大学和斯特林大学）、Leverhulme人口科学中心（牛津大学）和决议基金会代际中心的专家。我们的多学科团队由世界领先的人口统计学、老年学、经济学、地理学、政治学、社会政策、社会学、计算机科学和统计学专家组成。我们的研究将通过我们与国家统计局、苏格兰国家记录、斯特林和克拉克曼南郡城市交易办公室的牢固伙伴关系以及与国家和地方政府、邮政、第三部门组织和商业联系的合作，付诸行动。通过直接解决政府感兴趣的研究领域，包括老龄化大挑战，我们的工作将为当今的关键问题提供答案。我们的愿景是让CGC对代际关系产生积极影响。我们的希望是，通过密切关注年轻人、老年人和中年人在我们社会中的生活状况，我们可以在关键时刻加强代际团结和公平，对我们所有人的未来前景产生积极影响。

The Connecting Generations Centre (CGC) will examine the ways different generations are connected and how these connections shape, and are shaped by, social, demographic and economic change.Society benefits when different generations combine and help each other. With this in mind, the overall aim of the Centre is to improve society now and in the future by paying close attention to the role that intergenerational activity plays.To improve society, we need a clear picture of how living standards are changing for people in different generations. We need to understand how social and economic shocks, such as recession, job insecurity, Brexit and COVID-19, impact the generational groups differently. We also need to know how the generations support each other by, for example, exchanging wealth, knowledge, time, and housing, and understand their relative political and social influence. By increasing our knowledge, we can identify the groups that are most likely to need support.Different generations provide financial, emotional and practical support to each other across the different stages of their lives. This support is usually given at different times of people's lives: when leaving home, moving in with or separating from a partner, having children, entering and leaving work, continuing to live independently in the community, or moving into residential care. These major life events do not happen in isolation; they are affected by, and have an impact on, our health, economic living standards, social networks and personal resilience. They can vary by our migrant status, ethnicity and where we live or come from. Research within the CG Centre will focus on all these areas, and our findings can be used to form efficient and effective social policy, and aid commercial innovation.The CG Centre comes at a crucial time in the history of our society. Brexit and the COVID-19 pandemic make the Centre's work of understanding existing and foreseeing emerging inequalities even more urgent. The wider global issues of environmental degradation and climate change add to our concerns about what we leave behind for future generations and how they might manage in altered environmental conditions. The current government's 'levelling up' agenda made a promise to spread prosperity and opportunities. Brexit and the restrictions stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic have affected, and will continue to impact on, different generations and groups in various ways. The outcomes of these 'shocks' to our social and economic function could make it increasingly difficult for levelling-up aspirations to be fulfilled. We will need to implement targeted, evidence-based policies. To provide this crucial research evidence, the new CG Centre will bring together experts from the Centre for Population Change (Universities of Southampton, St Andrews and Stirling), the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science (University of Oxford) and the Intergenerational Centre at the Resolution Foundation. The multi-disciplinary team are world-leading experts in demography, gerontology, economics, geography, political science, social policy, sociology, computer science and statistics.Our research will be put into action through our strong partnerships with the Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, the Stirling and Clackmannanshire City Deal and by working with national and local government, POST, third sector organisations and business contacts. By directly addressing government areas of research interest, including the Ageing Grand Challenge, our work will offer answers to the critical questions of the day.Our vision is for the CGC to have a positive impact on intergenerational relations. Our hope is that by looking closely at how the young, old and those in mid-life are getting on in our society, we can bolster intergenerational solidarity and fairness at a critical moment, positively influencing all our future prospects.