Homebuyers 'plotting' a move to the UK countryside? A study of counter-urbanisation and entrepreneurial emergence in rural areas

这项研究绘制了企业家精神，反城市化和社会资本研究的平行线，以了解在持续的全球流行病背景下影响农村和区域发展的当代过程，随着英国城市居民开始在农村地区购买房屋，这可能会引发21世纪的“农村复兴”。希望“翻转”他们的生活到农村，并重新评估什么是重要的，在增加家庭工作，这是在这里停留。本研究将解决以下首要的研究问题：社会资本和空间背景影响农村移民创业出现在一个持续的全球流行病的背景下，这是如何影响农村生计的更广泛的发展？60名来自诺福克、萨福克郡或埃塞克斯农村地区的农村移民企业家将接受采访，以确定社会和空间背景及其供给的重要性;环境为企业家的出现提供了一个有洞察力的个人的优势（吉布森，1966年）。研究人员将花时间在微观研究领域，以增强对当地可供性的背景理解，并促进与新企业家或有抱负的企业家的焦点小组会议，以真实的了解对农村地区及其可供性的看法。“乡村”没有确切的定义，但发展学者一般以农村地区的环境和欠发达的结构性缺陷来界定农村地区（Wiggins和普罗克特，2001：427-428）。这些问题在低收入发展中国家可能更为严重，但英格兰农村地区也可能面临基础设施不发达、隐性贫困和难以获得服务等类似问题（诺福克县理事会，2013年）。然而，移民有可能成为“发展的推动者”，为农村经济增长和改善农村生计做出贡献;这就是为什么有序、安全和正常的人口迁移是2030年可持续发展议程的基础。了解潜在的“供给”如何创造和维持充满活力的农村经济，将有助于了解个人流动性、社交网络和对农村地区的不同看法如何与当地环境的特点相互作用，以创造新的创业机会，提高当地发展潜力，并提供个人谋生机会。

This study draws parallel lines of research in entrepreneurship, counter-urbanisation and social capital to understand contemporary processes influencing rural and regional development in the context of a persistent global pandemic that potentially launched a 21st century 'rural renaissance' as UK city dwellers began buying houses in rural areas, looking to 'flip' their lives to the countryside and reassess what is important amid increased home working that is here to stay. This study will address the following overarching research question: Do social capital and spatial contexts affect rural in-migrant entrepreneurial emergence in the context of a persistent global pandemic and how does this impact the wider development of rural livelihoods? 60 rural in-migrant entrepreneurs will be interviewed from rural locations in Norfolk, Suffolk or Essex to establish the importance of social and spatial contexts and their affordances; the advantages that an environment offers a perceptive individual for entrepreneurial emergence (Gibson, 1966). The researcher will spend time in the micro-study areas to augment the contextual understandings of local affordances and facilitate focus groups sessions with new or aspiring entrepreneurs to understand in real time, perceptions of rural locations and their affordances. 'Rurality' has no precise definition, but development scholars generally characterise rural areas by their environment and structural deficits of underdevelopment (Wiggins and Proctor, 2001: 427-428). These issues may be more acute in low-income developing countries, but rural areas of England can face similar issues of underdevelopment of infrastructure, hidden deprivation and poor access to services (Norfolk County Council, 2013). Migrants, however, have the potential to become 'agents of development', contributing to rural economic growth and improving rural livelihoods; that is why orderly, safe and regular migration of people underpins the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (UN, 2018). Understanding how underlying 'affordances' create and sustain dynamic rural economies will provide knowledge about how personal mobility, social networks and diverse perceptions of rural places can interact with features of a local context to create new entrepreneurial opportunities to enhance local development potential and provide individual livelihood opportunities.