Housing and community-leadership: sharing learning from reorganising the neighbourhood

英国住房危机继续在COVID-19疫情、能源价格螺旋式上升及收入停滞等社会问题的表面下酝酿。这些危机加剧了住房保障的障碍，表现为住房需求和法定无家可归者的比例不断上升。社区领导人站在最前沿，发展对住房日益缺乏负担能力的适应能力，建立社区组织，开发创新设计解决方案，并抵制社区的中产阶级化。在我的博士研究中，我探索了社区干预措施，以应对中产阶级化威胁的社区住房设计，使用来自英国各地的社区领导人和组织的访谈和焦点小组。这些数据让我了解到社区领导在住房方面如何在邻里层面建立对社会空间问题的适应能力。这方面的学习对于发展社区领导的能力和理解实现政策改革和实现社会影响的机会至关重要。这一点尤为重要，因为各级政府越来越多地对社区基础设施（如食品银行）负责，正如我们在疫情期间看到的那样，互助制度是福利政策的一部分。但是，尽管十年来政策转向社区基础设施（从旗舰政策提案开始，如“大社会”和地方主义法案（Bevan，2014; Brownill和布拉德利，2017）），工人阶级社区的物质环境继续下降。然而，我的博士项目的发现试图揭示社区组织超越弹性的潜在能力，并建立改革的社会运动。使用在我的博士研究开发的国家网络，奖学金的中心活动将因此与社区领袖和组织合作，设计和提供社区领导暑期学校。使用共同制作的方法，暑期学校将提供两个活动，在领导和组织治理途径的主题有很强的基础。第一次活动将巩固我在参与组织的博士研究中的学习，并通过专业社区组织者和社区设计师的研讨会，在社区领导人的旅程开始时向他们传播学习。第二次活动将为社区伙伴提供一个机会，参与政策知识交流，让权力下放和地方政府的住房政策制定者参与，分享对政策干预的理解，以及社区领导人在政策领域产生影响的途径。纳菲尔德基金会的研究、开发和分析基金以及标准人寿基金会，这将使该领域的研究能够持续到研究金年度之后。该项目旨在更好地了解房东如何集体组织，以及他们如何组织他们的资金，并调查如何组织抵抗房东-扩大与社区联盟ACORN的现有研究，进行更深入的人种学研究。这个项目还将发展我对影响和知识交流的理解，与REEF的联系人和合作伙伴网络合作-包括一个领先的智囊团（新经济基金会），地方当局和下放政府-制定政策的基础上的研究结果。最后，奖学金也将发展我的教学和论文写作技能，在组织研究，通过与我的导师Ouysmolovic-Jones博士和NUBS的战略合作伙伴Mihaela Kelemen教授的合作。

The UK housing crisis continues to simmer below the surface of society wide issues such as the COVID-19 pandemic, spiralling energy prices, and stagnating incomes. These crises have exacerbated barriers to housing security, demonstrated by rising rates of housing need and statutory homelessness. Community leaders are at the forefront of developing resilience to an increasing lack of affordability in housing, building community organisations, developing innovative design solutions, and resisting gentrification in their neighbourhoods. In my PhD research I explored community interventions into the design of housing in neighbourhoods threatened with gentrification, using interviews and focus groups with community leaders and organisations from across the UK. This data allowed me to develop an understanding of how aspects of community leadership in housing can build resilience to socio- spatial issues at the neighbourhood level.Learning in this area is vital for developing community leaders' capacities and understanding of the opportunities to achieve policy reforms and realise social impact. This is particularly important as government at all levels increasingly responsibilises community infrastructure such as food banks and, as we saw during the pandemic, for systems of mutual aid as part of welfare policy. But despite a now decade long policy shift to community infrastructure (beginning with flagship policy proposals such as "the big society" and the Localism Act (Bevan, 2014; Brownill and Bradley, 2017)), the material circumstances of working-class communities have continued to decline. The findings of my PhD project, however, attempt to reveal the latent capacities of community organisation to move beyond resilience and build social movements for reform. Using the national networks developed in my PhD research, the central activity of the fellowship will therefore be to collaborate with community leaders and organisations to design and deliver a Community Leadership Summer School. Using a co-production approach, the summer school will deliver two events with a strong basis in the themes of the Leadership and Organisational Governance Pathway. The first event will consolidate learning from my PhD research in participating organisations, as well as disseminating learning to community leaders at the beginning of their journeys, through workshops from professional community organisers and community designers. The second event will provide an opportunity for community partners to participate in knowledge exchange in policy, engaging housing policy makers across devolved and local government in sharing understanding about where policy interventions can be made and what the routes to impact for community leaders are in policy spheres.This fellowship will also be used to develop a funding application targeted for the Friends Provident Foundation, the Nuffield Foundation's Research, Development and Analysis Fund and the Standard Life Foundation, which would enable continuous research in this area that will extend beyond the year of the fellowship. The project will aim to better understand how landlords organise collectively and how they organise their finance, as well as investigating how resistance to landlords is organised - expanding on existing research with community union ACORN to conduct more in-depth, ethnographic research. This project will also develop my understanding of impact and knowledge exchange, working with REEF's network of contacts and partners - including a leading think-tank (New Economics Foundation), local authorities and devolved governments - to develop policy based on the findings of the research.Finally, the fellowship will also develop my teaching and paper writing skills in organisational studies, through collaboration with my mentor Dr Owain Smolovic-Jones at OUBS and strategic partner Professor Mihaela Kelemen at NUBS.