Mixed-income communities and the wellbeing of low-income young people

该奖学金的目的是围绕年轻人将社会住房改造成混合收入社区的经历，促进学术辩论和研究知情的政策和实践。这将通过一系列研究传播和知识交流活动来实现，这些活动将增加我的博士研究的社会影响，并促进学者、政策制定者、从业人员和社区的理解。我的博士研究显示，工薪阶层青少年并没有从将贫困的市政社区转变为社会经济混合社区的过程中获益。相反，再生过程似乎进一步限制了他们过上好日子的机会和能力。我的博士学位旨在突出年轻人的声音，了解他们的邻里关系如何影响他们的福祉。为此，我在2018/19年花了12个月的时间在伦敦市中心的一个委员会庄园进行身临其境的田野工作，这个庄园已经变成了一个混合社区。我在当地青年中心做志愿者，让40名年轻人(12-19岁)参加党派活动和小组讨论。我还采访了36名成年利益相关者，包括再生决策者和当地服务提供商。调查结果显示，与政策预期相反，年轻人无法从所在地区的新设施和改善中受益，他们的福祉受到社会不平等和分化的加剧、他们被排除在公共空间和地方决策之外以及他们的归属感下降的破坏。这些调查结果对社会住房再开发的政策和实践具有明显的影响，特别是在伦敦和其他西方国家的城市，在那里，社会融合是城市更新的一个共同特征。在我博士工作的基础上，这一奖学金旨在：(A)加深对混合社区再生对工薪阶层年轻人福祉的影响的了解；(B)促进对青年福祉的概念化，突出他们的生活经历；(C)为以青年为中心的参与式方法的文献做出贡献；(D)促进包容青年的社会住房再生政策和实践；以及(E)为未来的研究合作创造机会。这些目标将通过一系列活动来实现，包括发展学术出版物、在会议和研讨会上发言、与青年、政策制定者、实践者、活动家和感兴趣的团体组织知识交流活动、共同为包容青年的再生政策和实践编写宣言、为更广泛的受众撰写文章、确定奖学金后的研究计划以及发起论坛，以便与同事讨论未来项目的方向。

This fellowship aims to contribute to academic debate and research-informed policy and practice around young people's experiences of social housing estates being regenerated into mixed income communities. This will be achieved through a package of research dissemination and knowledge exchange activities that will increase the social impact of my doctoral research and facilitate its uptake by academics, policy makers, practitioners and communities. My doctoral research revealed that working class teenagers are not reaping the benefits of transforming deprived council estates into socio-economically mixed communities. On the contrary, it seems that the regeneration processes further restricting their opportunities and ability to live a good life. My PhD aimed to give prominence to youth voices in understanding how their neighbourhood affects their wellbeing. To that end I spent 12 months in 2018/19 conducting immersive fieldwork in an inner-London council estate that has been turned into a mixed community. I volunteered at the local youth centre and engaged 40 young people (12-19 years) in partiticaptory activities and group discussions. I also interviewed 36 adult stakeholders, including regeneration decision makers and local service providers. Findings showed that, contrary to policy expectations, young people are not able to benefit from the new facilties and improvements in their area and that their wellbeing is undermined by increasing social inequalities and divisions, their exclusion from public spaces and local decision making and their diminishing sense of belonging.These findings have clear implications for the policy and practice of social housing redevelopment, particularly in London and other cities of Western countries where social mix is a common feature of urban regeneration. They are also of relevance to academic debates and literatures on community and place, youth wellbeing and the use of collaborative participatory research methods.Building on my PhD work, this fellowship aims to: (a) enhance the understanding of the influence of mixed communities regeneration on working class young people's wellbeing; (b) advance a conceptualisation of youth wellbeing that foregrounds their lived experiences; (c) contribute to the literature on youth-centred participatory methodology; (d) promote youth-inclusive social housing regeneration policy and practice; and (e) create opportunities for future research collaborations. These aims will be achieved through a programme of activities that include developing academic publications, presenting at conferences and seminars, organising knowledge exchange events with young people, policy makers, practitioners, campaigners and interest groups, co-producing a manifesto for youth-inclusive regeneration policy and practice, writing for a wider audience, scoping post-fellowship research plans and initiating forums for discussions with colleagues about directions for future projects.