Everyday integration: The Local Contexts, Practices, and Mobilities of Integration
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Bristol
Department Name: Sociology
Abstract
The recent Casey Review (2016) and Integrated Communities Strategy Green Paper (2018) have revived integration as a national policy priority. The problem these strategies address is the perceived lack of integration of immigrants and ethnic minorities. The fix they propose combines English Language provision and the promotion of 'fundamental British values' with curbs on immigration and interventions to address what are viewed as harmful cultural practices.
Whilst most will agree that integration is desirable, there are different views on what integration is and how best to achieve it. Our approach is distinctive in at least three ways.
First, we view integration as a process involving everyone, not just immigrants and ethnic minorities. The drawback of approaches that single out certain populations as 'unintegrated' is that they relieve other, 'integrated' populations of responsibility for integration. Integration, we argue, can only work if it involves everyone, where everyone shares its responsibilities and benefits.
Second, we view integration as beginning in the situated practices and local contexts of everyday life. The drawback of approaches that stress fundamental national values is they trade in abstractions that may have little bearing on people's day-to-day concerns. Integration, we argue, should be pursued and achieved through social intercourse grounded in everyday life, not (only) through the promotion of abstract national values.
Third, we view integration as a bottom-up phenomenon, where the aim of policy should be to capture and encourage existing best practices whilst simultaneously attenuating local barriers to integration. The drawback of approaches pitched at the national level is they are less sensitive to variation in local context. Integration, we argue, must begin with and attend to the specificities of local context.
Our Everyday Integration approach reclaims and retools integration for academic and policy purposes.
Our approach represents a step change in the scholarship on integration. Integration has been criticised for its assimilationist undertones and lack of conceptual clarity, leading some to abandon it in favour of cognate concepts such as incorporation or inclusion. Given integration's continued policy relevance, however, our aim instead is to redefine and reclaim it in ways that identify and then remedy its earlier shortcomings. We begin with integration as an assortment of locally grounded everyday practices and mobilities that facilitate meaningful and constructive social exchange. We will develop this approach as our main scholarly intervention to integration.
Our approach is designed to achieve maximum impact for the everyday users and agents of integration. Integration is not just a matter of fostering good relations between citizens and migrants in national contexts. Rather, integration occurs through the grounded practices, exchanges, and mobilities of everyday life in local contexts. Our policy interventions are designed to capture and facilitate existing good practices whilst simultaneously addressing remaining barriers to integration. Working with the Mayor of Bristol, the Bristol City Council, and a wide range of City and Community Partners, we will use our research findings to co-produce and implement an Integration Strategy for Bristol. We will then distil the insights from our research and Strategy to formulate an Integration Toolkit that can be flexibly adapted for other urban contexts across Britain.
Rather than simply seeing the lack of integration as a problem, we contend that a focus on the ways in which different groups of mobile and settled residents of the city already experience and practice integration - that is, the people who are its everyday architects and agents - can provide insights and creative approaches for scholars and policymakers seeking to understand and foster integration.
Whilst most will agree that integration is desirable, there are different views on what integration is and how best to achieve it. Our approach is distinctive in at least three ways.
First, we view integration as a process involving everyone, not just immigrants and ethnic minorities. The drawback of approaches that single out certain populations as 'unintegrated' is that they relieve other, 'integrated' populations of responsibility for integration. Integration, we argue, can only work if it involves everyone, where everyone shares its responsibilities and benefits.
Second, we view integration as beginning in the situated practices and local contexts of everyday life. The drawback of approaches that stress fundamental national values is they trade in abstractions that may have little bearing on people's day-to-day concerns. Integration, we argue, should be pursued and achieved through social intercourse grounded in everyday life, not (only) through the promotion of abstract national values.
Third, we view integration as a bottom-up phenomenon, where the aim of policy should be to capture and encourage existing best practices whilst simultaneously attenuating local barriers to integration. The drawback of approaches pitched at the national level is they are less sensitive to variation in local context. Integration, we argue, must begin with and attend to the specificities of local context.
Our Everyday Integration approach reclaims and retools integration for academic and policy purposes.
Our approach represents a step change in the scholarship on integration. Integration has been criticised for its assimilationist undertones and lack of conceptual clarity, leading some to abandon it in favour of cognate concepts such as incorporation or inclusion. Given integration's continued policy relevance, however, our aim instead is to redefine and reclaim it in ways that identify and then remedy its earlier shortcomings. We begin with integration as an assortment of locally grounded everyday practices and mobilities that facilitate meaningful and constructive social exchange. We will develop this approach as our main scholarly intervention to integration.
Our approach is designed to achieve maximum impact for the everyday users and agents of integration. Integration is not just a matter of fostering good relations between citizens and migrants in national contexts. Rather, integration occurs through the grounded practices, exchanges, and mobilities of everyday life in local contexts. Our policy interventions are designed to capture and facilitate existing good practices whilst simultaneously addressing remaining barriers to integration. Working with the Mayor of Bristol, the Bristol City Council, and a wide range of City and Community Partners, we will use our research findings to co-produce and implement an Integration Strategy for Bristol. We will then distil the insights from our research and Strategy to formulate an Integration Toolkit that can be flexibly adapted for other urban contexts across Britain.
Rather than simply seeing the lack of integration as a problem, we contend that a focus on the ways in which different groups of mobile and settled residents of the city already experience and practice integration - that is, the people who are its everyday architects and agents - can provide insights and creative approaches for scholars and policymakers seeking to understand and foster integration.
Planned Impact
One key objective of this project is to engage community partners, policymakers, and academics in collaborative research to co-produce an Integration Strategy for Bristol that will provide an evidence-based, locally grounded approach to promoting integration in the city. This will form the basis for an Integration Toolkit, which will offer a flexible set of principles, methodologies, and insights for other cities to develop their own locally-driven approaches to integration.
The project's aims and design have been developed and agreed through a series of workshops, meetings, and other discussions in 2017-2018 with local government and community organisations. We will continue this collaboration to: share knowledge between academics, practitioners and communities; co-organise Integration Roadshows to canvass local communities on their ideas and concerns about integration; run a series of Integration Workshops with 25 local Partners to shape the project's ongoing implementation; co-produce an Integration Strategy for Bristol; deliver the Integration Strategy to the Mayor of Bristol and Bristol City Council and work with them on a plan for its implementation and continued funding; and develop and disseminate the Integration Toolkit to stakeholders across the UK.
The beneficiaries of the project are the range of Partners in Bristol who are involved in and supporting this project. These include Bristol City Council and the Mayor of Bristol, who have pledged their support for the project and their commitment to collaborating with the research. Together they will ensure the dissemination and implementation of the Integration Strategy for Bristol, linking it with and embedding it in the Mayor's One City Plan for 'a coherent and socially inclusive city'. Our Bristol City Council Partners from the Housing Division, the Department for Neighbourhoods and Communities, the Department for Growth and Regeneration, and the Division of Culture will join the project's Steering Committee to inform the design and implementation of the research and ensure that it addresses the needs of local residents and policymakers.
The project has achieved the support of a wide range of local community organisations and stakeholders, including our four core City Partners: Voscur, Up Our Street, Ashley Community Housing, and the Black South West Network, who will join the project's Steering Committee with responsibility for representing the interests and needs of organisations working on integration issues in the city. Additionally, the project will work with 25 Community Partners, including Babbasa Youth Empowerment, Bristol Disability Equality Forum, Bristol Multi-Faith Forum, Community CoLab, Hartcliffe and Withywood Community Partnership, Refugee Women of Bristol, and United Communities (see Appendix 1 for a full list). These Partners will participate in the Integration Workshops and Roadshows to help develop the research's approach to addressing the concerns and views of diverse communities from across the city. Such commitment from our Bristol Partners ensures that our project is well positioned to achieve real impact on its Integration Strategy and related initiatives in the city to reach some of the project's most important beneficiaries, the people of Bristol.
Additionally, the project will draw on the insights, proposals and lessons learnt from the research and Integration Strategy to create a national Integration Toolkit for national launch and dissemination to other cities across the UK. Our Partner from the Mayor's Office, David Barclay (Good Faith Partnership/Advisor to the Mayor on Social Inclusion), will lead on the launch of the Integration Strategy for Bristol in London and the subsequent dissemination of the Integration Toolkit to local stakeholders in other cities and to national stake-holders, including parliamentarians and civil servants.
The project's aims and design have been developed and agreed through a series of workshops, meetings, and other discussions in 2017-2018 with local government and community organisations. We will continue this collaboration to: share knowledge between academics, practitioners and communities; co-organise Integration Roadshows to canvass local communities on their ideas and concerns about integration; run a series of Integration Workshops with 25 local Partners to shape the project's ongoing implementation; co-produce an Integration Strategy for Bristol; deliver the Integration Strategy to the Mayor of Bristol and Bristol City Council and work with them on a plan for its implementation and continued funding; and develop and disseminate the Integration Toolkit to stakeholders across the UK.
The beneficiaries of the project are the range of Partners in Bristol who are involved in and supporting this project. These include Bristol City Council and the Mayor of Bristol, who have pledged their support for the project and their commitment to collaborating with the research. Together they will ensure the dissemination and implementation of the Integration Strategy for Bristol, linking it with and embedding it in the Mayor's One City Plan for 'a coherent and socially inclusive city'. Our Bristol City Council Partners from the Housing Division, the Department for Neighbourhoods and Communities, the Department for Growth and Regeneration, and the Division of Culture will join the project's Steering Committee to inform the design and implementation of the research and ensure that it addresses the needs of local residents and policymakers.
The project has achieved the support of a wide range of local community organisations and stakeholders, including our four core City Partners: Voscur, Up Our Street, Ashley Community Housing, and the Black South West Network, who will join the project's Steering Committee with responsibility for representing the interests and needs of organisations working on integration issues in the city. Additionally, the project will work with 25 Community Partners, including Babbasa Youth Empowerment, Bristol Disability Equality Forum, Bristol Multi-Faith Forum, Community CoLab, Hartcliffe and Withywood Community Partnership, Refugee Women of Bristol, and United Communities (see Appendix 1 for a full list). These Partners will participate in the Integration Workshops and Roadshows to help develop the research's approach to addressing the concerns and views of diverse communities from across the city. Such commitment from our Bristol Partners ensures that our project is well positioned to achieve real impact on its Integration Strategy and related initiatives in the city to reach some of the project's most important beneficiaries, the people of Bristol.
Additionally, the project will draw on the insights, proposals and lessons learnt from the research and Integration Strategy to create a national Integration Toolkit for national launch and dissemination to other cities across the UK. Our Partner from the Mayor's Office, David Barclay (Good Faith Partnership/Advisor to the Mayor on Social Inclusion), will lead on the launch of the Integration Strategy for Bristol in London and the subsequent dissemination of the Integration Toolkit to local stakeholders in other cities and to national stake-holders, including parliamentarians and civil servants.
Organisations
- University of Bristol, United Kingdom (Lead Research Organisation)
- University College London, United Kingdom (Collaboration)
- Ambition Lawrence Weston (Collaboration)
- Refugee Women of Bristol (Collaboration)
- Bristol Green Capital Partnership (Collaboration)
- Knowle West Media Centre (Collaboration)
- The Architecture Centre (Collaboration)
- Age UK, United Kingdom (Collaboration)
- Greater London Authority (GLA) (Collaboration)
- Barton Hill Settlement (Collaboration)
- Voscur (Collaboration)
- Linkoping University (Collaboration)
- Bristol Disability Equality Forum (Collaboration)
- University of Kent, United Kingdom (Collaboration)
- British Future (Collaboration)
- Bristol Multi-faith Forum (Collaboration)
- Bristol City Council, United Kingdom (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- The Bristol Somali Resource Centre (Collaboration)
- Southmead Development Trust (Collaboration)
- Conservatoire for Dance and Drama, United Kingdom (Collaboration)
- Community CoLab (Collaboration)
- Up Our Street (Collaboration)
- University of Oxford, United Kingdom (Collaboration)
- Trinity Centre (Collaboration)
- Wellspring Healthy Living Centre (Collaboration)
- Bristol Refugee Rights (Collaboration)
- Local Government Association (Collaboration)
- Business West, United Kingdom (Collaboration)
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (Collaboration)
- DMAC UK (Collaboration)
- Black South West Network (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- Paul Hamlyn Foundation (Collaboration)
- Stand Against Racism and Inequality (Collaboration)
- LGBT Bristol (Collaboration)
- Aarhus University, Denmark (Collaboration)
- Bristol and Bath Regional Capital (Collaboration)
- United Communities (Collaboration)
- Ujima Radio (Collaboration)
- Ashley Community Housing (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- Babbasa (Collaboration)
- Voscur (Project Partner)
- Easton & Lawrence Hill Neighbourhood Mgt (Project Partner)
Publications
Anderson B
(2021)
Exploring New Avenues for Knowledge Production in Migration Research: A Debate Between Bridget Anderson and Janine Dahinden Pre and After the Burst of the Pandemic
in Swiss Journal of Sociology
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(2020)
Economic Work Package Everyday Integration Working Document
| Title | Set of photographs |
| Description | A collaboration with local artist Ibolya Feher. Feher responded to the central themes of the project. |
| Type Of Art | Artwork |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | The published photographs from the collaboration so far have been used on our website. |
| URL | https://everydayintegration.org.uk/ |
| Description | In August/September 2020 we administered a survey (n=786) to explore the impact of Covid-19 in Bristol on the economic, social, civic, and spatial dimensions of integration (these four areas align with the focus of the project). The COVID-19 pandemic has upturned many of our assumptions about the relationships between integration, work, neighbourhoods and engagement. In one version of an integrated city, we would all be in this together as the virus infects human cells indiscriminately, but we have seen how profoundly unintegrated we are with the disproportionate impact of the pandemic across lines of age, ethnicity, precarity, immigration status and social class. Indeed, it is precisely the non-discriminatory nature of COVID that exposes race, class and passports as producing mechanisms of inequality and segregation. Our analysis of survey data produced four key findings: • Working was drastically affected by the lockdown, with nearly a quarter of Bristolians reported being negatively affected by COVID-19 - a rate lower than the average national rate (Wielgoszewska et al., 2020). The economic impact of COVID-19 appeared to have widened existing socio-economic inequalities, with individuals from ethnic minority groups and those with lower take-home pay, working part-time and/or working in sectors requiring fewer skills reporting more negative effects. • The first national lockdown saw a substantial decrease in face-to-face interactions and a substantial increase in online interactions. These trends transformed the neighbourhood into an important site of social interaction and source of place attachment, especially for white British and high-income groups. For others, including some non-citizens and ethnic minorities, the pandemic and the national response to it strengthened their attachment to the UK and encouraged virtual social exchange via trans-local and trans-national networks. • During the period of the lockdown, there was a general decrease in conventional forms of civic engagement, such as participation in political parties, national charities or faith groups, and a shift away from national participation in favour of local participation, such as participation in local charities and local citizens/community groups. There was also evidence of a high level of reported voting intentions in future elections. This was particularly the case for local, drawing attention to possible new opportunities for local political engagement. • Spatial: Mobility gradually recovered over the summer in Bristol. The recovery, however, was unevenly distributed across the city. Compared to white British and affluent residents, respondents from ethnic minority backgrounds, low-income groups and those living in the most deprived neighbourhoods reported significantly higher rates of work-related and health-related trips, demonstrating their greater exposure to health and occupational risks associated with COVID-19. Comparison of activity spaces indicates that different socio-economic groups used and experienced the city in different ways. These differences were related to the geographic distribution of urban opportunities and the residential distribution of different socio-economic groups across the city. |
| Exploitation Route | The results of the questionnaire are presently being shared with Bristol City Council, our Key Project Partners, and our 30 Community Partners. Some further analysis will likely be undertaken at the request of these partners and in alignment with the objectives of the project. Together this will form an evidence base that will feed into the Integration Strategy and Integration Toolkits we will be preparing toward the end of the project. The Integration Strategy will reside with the One City Office and Bristol City Council. We are currently working with the MHCLG, the LGA, and the Belong Network to cultivate national networks to disseminate the Integration Toolkit to local authorities across the country. In addition, we will widely disseminate the survey's Final Report and a series of Press Releases on each of the key findings to targeted local and national collaborators. |
| Sectors | Communities and Social Services/Policy,Creative Economy,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Healthcare,Leisure Activities, including Sports, Recreation and Tourism,Government, Democracy and Justice,Transport |
| Description | We are in the middle of a collaborative and co-produced research project with Bristol City Council and more than thirty community partners across the city. The impact of the research has been found in the process thus far of collaborating with our partners to progress the work of the project. Those meetings include 1 large workshop (with the majority of partners present), regular steering committee meetings (with representatives from 4 key community partners and Bristol City Council participating), and regular and ongoing work-package meetings (each with at least 1 key community partner, 1 Bristol City Council partner, and 1 University of Bristol partner). We have been working together with all these project partners on our data collection strategies and in developing our approach to integration. The main objective of the project is to co-produce an impact strategy for Bristol. To date, we have been scoping and collecting the knowledge we have in local communities (through our community partners) and identifying the integration priorities for both community and Bristol City Council partners. The process of meeting and collaborating on these and other objectives has put our community partners into direct dialogue with Bristol City Council on matters of shared concern and interest. This is building the capacity of our community partners to influence local policy on integration and other matters. At the same time we have been working with a number of national organisations - British Future, the Belong Network, the LGA, and the MHCLG to share and discuss our approach to integration and cultivate a national network of partners for future impact and dissemination activities. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2016 |
| Sector | Communities and Social Services/Policy,Creative Economy,Leisure Activities, including Sports, Recreation and Tourism,Government, Democracy and Justice,Transport |
| Impact Types | Societal,Policy & public services |
| Description | Advisory board for Beyond 'Us' and 'Them' Project, Centre for the Study of Group Processes |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a advisory committee |
| Description | Consultation for Talk/Together Project |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a national consultation |
| URL | https://together.org.uk/talk-together/ |
| Description | Meetings with Greater London Authority |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a advisory committee |
| Description | Brigstow Institute Funding for 'Subject to Scrutiny' film |
| Amount | £9,300 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Bristol |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2020 |
| End | 12/2020 |
| Description | QR Strategic Priorities Fund |
| Amount | £5,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | United Kingdom Research and Innovation |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2021 |
| End | 03/2021 |
| Title | #WhoseBristol Questionnaire |
| Description | An online survey that collected information on how people's everyday experience of work, social exchange, civic engagement and outdoor activities changed during and after the first national lockdown (March- July 2020), and how these changes pose challenges and opportunities for integration in Bristol. The survey was distributed through a variety of channels, including through partnerships with community organisations, through area-based mutual aid groups and through social media and online advertising. We received 786 responses. |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | This research tool was used to collect data that has informed the direction of the project and has been the basis of several reports. |
| Title | #WhoseBristol Survey Data |
| Description | The dataset draws on the #WhoseBristol survey - an online survey of 786 respondents living in Bristol or the areas around it. The survey was launched on 24th August and closed on 4th October 2020. We treat the data as cross-sectional collected in August and September 2020 - when the first national lockdown was eased in Bristol and the areas around it. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | None yet. |
| Title | Annotated Bibliographies |
| Description | Annotated bibliographies for each work-package. We asked our key partners to send us information about relevant publications to include on these bibliographies. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | Knowledge exchange between key partners and academic research team. |
| Title | Community Research Database |
| Description | Database of existing community research on integration. We asked our community partners for information about existing research, including research projects, evaluation, workshops, events and associated reports, and have compiled this information in a database. We have not yet shared this database with others but plan to create a searchable database that would be beneficial to our community partners. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | Increased engagement of community partners in the project. |
| Description | Academic Advisory Board for Solidarities project |
| Organisation | Aarhus University |
| Country | Denmark |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Professor Bridget Anderson stands on the advisory committee for the solidarities research project. Contributions include intellectual input and professional expertise. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Intellectual input and professional expertise. |
| Impact | N/A |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Academic Advisory Board for Solidarities project |
| Organisation | Linkoping University |
| Country | Sweden |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Professor Bridget Anderson stands on the advisory committee for the solidarities research project. Contributions include intellectual input and professional expertise. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Intellectual input and professional expertise. |
| Impact | N/A |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Academic Advisory Board for Solidarities project |
| Organisation | University College London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Professor Bridget Anderson stands on the advisory committee for the solidarities research project. Contributions include intellectual input and professional expertise. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Intellectual input and professional expertise. |
| Impact | N/A |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Bristol collaborator/partner for Beyond Us and Them Project |
| Organisation | University of Kent |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The research team contribute intellectual input to the Beyond Us and Them project and are helping with sample construction and recruitment in Bristol. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Our partners (both from the University of Kent and members of the Belong network) offer their expertise through this collaboration, which helps inform our work. |
| Impact | N/A |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | British Future |
| Organisation | British Future |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Intellectual input and professional expertise at meetings as part of /Together coalition. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Professional expertise and intellectual input. Coordination of /Together coalition events and research. |
| Impact | N/A |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Collaboration with Inclusive Cities Project |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Department | Centre on Migration, Policy, and Society (COMPAS) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Prof. Bridget Anderson has been working with Inclusive Cities, most recently supporting their work on NRPF. She has introduced them to key legal commentators and to people at the university working on relevant issues. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Professional expertise and intellectual input. |
| Impact | N/A |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Consultation for /Together Coalition |
| Organisation | British Future |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Our research team took part in the national consultation led by British Future as part of the /Together coalition and offered intellectual input. |
| Collaborator Contribution | British Future led the Talk/Together initiative on behalf of the /Together coalition, which has influenced the work of the project. |
| Impact | N/A |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Greater London Authority |
| Organisation | Greater London Authority (GLA) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Intellectual input and feedback on their measures of integration. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Professional expertise and intellectual input. |
| Impact | N/A |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Local Government Association |
| Organisation | Local Government Association |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Attending meetings and offering intellectual input. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Professional expertise at meetings. |
| Impact | N/A |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government |
| Organisation | Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Professional expertise and intellectual input. |
| Collaborator Contribution | N/A |
| Impact | N/A |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Partnership with Bristol City Council |
| Organisation | Bristol City Council |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Research expertise, intellectual input and access to data. We are also exploring MSc placements with Bristol City Council that would benefit both the Council and the students themselves. |
| Collaborator Contribution | 23 days of work over the duration of the project. Engagement with the project, offering local and national advice and support, access to local government decision making and major's office, stakeholder mapping for Integration Strategy. |
| Impact | Annotated bibliographies, community research database, workshop participation, Mayor's blog post. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Partnership with community partners |
| Organisation | Age UK |
| Department | Age UK Bristol |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Research expertise, intellectual input. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Contributing local knowledge and experience of working with communities in Bristol. They have helped with sample construction and recruitment of research participants for interviews and questionnaire, and have helped with community research. |
| Impact | Workshop (contribution to decisions made over direction of research and GPS sample construction), workshop report, annotated bibliographies, community research database. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Partnership with community partners |
| Organisation | Ambition Lawrence Weston |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Research expertise, intellectual input. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Contributing local knowledge and experience of working with communities in Bristol. They have helped with sample construction and recruitment of research participants for interviews and questionnaire, and have helped with community research. |
| Impact | Workshop (contribution to decisions made over direction of research and GPS sample construction), workshop report, annotated bibliographies, community research database. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Partnership with community partners |
| Organisation | Babbasa |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Research expertise, intellectual input. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Contributing local knowledge and experience of working with communities in Bristol. They have helped with sample construction and recruitment of research participants for interviews and questionnaire, and have helped with community research. |
| Impact | Workshop (contribution to decisions made over direction of research and GPS sample construction), workshop report, annotated bibliographies, community research database. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Partnership with community partners |
| Organisation | Barton Hill Settlement |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Research expertise, intellectual input. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Contributing local knowledge and experience of working with communities in Bristol. They have helped with sample construction and recruitment of research participants for interviews and questionnaire, and have helped with community research. |
| Impact | Workshop (contribution to decisions made over direction of research and GPS sample construction), workshop report, annotated bibliographies, community research database. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Partnership with community partners |
| Organisation | Bristol Disability Equality Forum |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Research expertise, intellectual input. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Contributing local knowledge and experience of working with communities in Bristol. They have helped with sample construction and recruitment of research participants for interviews and questionnaire, and have helped with community research. |
| Impact | Workshop (contribution to decisions made over direction of research and GPS sample construction), workshop report, annotated bibliographies, community research database. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Partnership with community partners |
| Organisation | Bristol Green Capital Partnership |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Research expertise, intellectual input. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Contributing local knowledge and experience of working with communities in Bristol. They have helped with sample construction and recruitment of research participants for interviews and questionnaire, and have helped with community research. |
| Impact | Workshop (contribution to decisions made over direction of research and GPS sample construction), workshop report, annotated bibliographies, community research database. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Partnership with community partners |
| Organisation | Bristol Multi-faith Forum |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Research expertise, intellectual input. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Contributing local knowledge and experience of working with communities in Bristol. They have helped with sample construction and recruitment of research participants for interviews and questionnaire, and have helped with community research. |
| Impact | Workshop (contribution to decisions made over direction of research and GPS sample construction), workshop report, annotated bibliographies, community research database. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Partnership with community partners |
| Organisation | Bristol Old Vic Theatre School |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Research expertise, intellectual input. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Contributing local knowledge and experience of working with communities in Bristol. They have helped with sample construction and recruitment of research participants for interviews and questionnaire, and have helped with community research. |
| Impact | Workshop (contribution to decisions made over direction of research and GPS sample construction), workshop report, annotated bibliographies, community research database. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Partnership with community partners |
| Organisation | Bristol Refugee Rights |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Research expertise, intellectual input. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Contributing local knowledge and experience of working with communities in Bristol. They have helped with sample construction and recruitment of research participants for interviews and questionnaire, and have helped with community research. |
| Impact | Workshop (contribution to decisions made over direction of research and GPS sample construction), workshop report, annotated bibliographies, community research database. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Partnership with community partners |
| Organisation | Bristol and Bath Regional Capital |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Research expertise, intellectual input. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Contributing local knowledge and experience of working with communities in Bristol. They have helped with sample construction and recruitment of research participants for interviews and questionnaire, and have helped with community research. |
| Impact | Workshop (contribution to decisions made over direction of research and GPS sample construction), workshop report, annotated bibliographies, community research database. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Partnership with community partners |
| Organisation | Business West |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Research expertise, intellectual input. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Contributing local knowledge and experience of working with communities in Bristol. They have helped with sample construction and recruitment of research participants for interviews and questionnaire, and have helped with community research. |
| Impact | Workshop (contribution to decisions made over direction of research and GPS sample construction), workshop report, annotated bibliographies, community research database. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Partnership with community partners |
| Organisation | Community CoLab |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Research expertise, intellectual input. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Contributing local knowledge and experience of working with communities in Bristol. They have helped with sample construction and recruitment of research participants for interviews and questionnaire, and have helped with community research. |
| Impact | Workshop (contribution to decisions made over direction of research and GPS sample construction), workshop report, annotated bibliographies, community research database. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Partnership with community partners |
| Organisation | DMAC UK |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Research expertise, intellectual input. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Contributing local knowledge and experience of working with communities in Bristol. They have helped with sample construction and recruitment of research participants for interviews and questionnaire, and have helped with community research. |
| Impact | Workshop (contribution to decisions made over direction of research and GPS sample construction), workshop report, annotated bibliographies, community research database. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Partnership with community partners |
| Organisation | Knowle West Media Centre |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Research expertise, intellectual input. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Contributing local knowledge and experience of working with communities in Bristol. They have helped with sample construction and recruitment of research participants for interviews and questionnaire, and have helped with community research. |
| Impact | Workshop (contribution to decisions made over direction of research and GPS sample construction), workshop report, annotated bibliographies, community research database. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Partnership with community partners |
| Organisation | LGBT Bristol |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Research expertise, intellectual input. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Contributing local knowledge and experience of working with communities in Bristol. They have helped with sample construction and recruitment of research participants for interviews and questionnaire, and have helped with community research. |
| Impact | Workshop (contribution to decisions made over direction of research and GPS sample construction), workshop report, annotated bibliographies, community research database. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Partnership with community partners |
| Organisation | Refugee Women of Bristol |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Research expertise, intellectual input. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Contributing local knowledge and experience of working with communities in Bristol. They have helped with sample construction and recruitment of research participants for interviews and questionnaire, and have helped with community research. |
| Impact | Workshop (contribution to decisions made over direction of research and GPS sample construction), workshop report, annotated bibliographies, community research database. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Partnership with community partners |
| Organisation | Southmead Development Trust |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Research expertise, intellectual input. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Contributing local knowledge and experience of working with communities in Bristol. They have helped with sample construction and recruitment of research participants for interviews and questionnaire, and have helped with community research. |
| Impact | Workshop (contribution to decisions made over direction of research and GPS sample construction), workshop report, annotated bibliographies, community research database. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Partnership with community partners |
| Organisation | Stand Against Racism and Inequality |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Research expertise, intellectual input. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Contributing local knowledge and experience of working with communities in Bristol. They have helped with sample construction and recruitment of research participants for interviews and questionnaire, and have helped with community research. |
| Impact | Workshop (contribution to decisions made over direction of research and GPS sample construction), workshop report, annotated bibliographies, community research database. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Partnership with community partners |
| Organisation | The Architecture Centre |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Research expertise, intellectual input. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Contributing local knowledge and experience of working with communities in Bristol. They have helped with sample construction and recruitment of research participants for interviews and questionnaire, and have helped with community research. |
| Impact | Workshop (contribution to decisions made over direction of research and GPS sample construction), workshop report, annotated bibliographies, community research database. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Partnership with community partners |
| Organisation | The Bristol Somali Resource Centre |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Research expertise, intellectual input. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Contributing local knowledge and experience of working with communities in Bristol. They have helped with sample construction and recruitment of research participants for interviews and questionnaire, and have helped with community research. |
| Impact | Workshop (contribution to decisions made over direction of research and GPS sample construction), workshop report, annotated bibliographies, community research database. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Partnership with community partners |
| Organisation | Trinity Centre |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Research expertise, intellectual input. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Contributing local knowledge and experience of working with communities in Bristol. They have helped with sample construction and recruitment of research participants for interviews and questionnaire, and have helped with community research. |
| Impact | Workshop (contribution to decisions made over direction of research and GPS sample construction), workshop report, annotated bibliographies, community research database. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Partnership with community partners |
| Organisation | Ujima Radio |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Research expertise, intellectual input. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Contributing local knowledge and experience of working with communities in Bristol. They have helped with sample construction and recruitment of research participants for interviews and questionnaire, and have helped with community research. |
| Impact | Workshop (contribution to decisions made over direction of research and GPS sample construction), workshop report, annotated bibliographies, community research database. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Partnership with community partners |
| Organisation | United Communities |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Research expertise, intellectual input. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Contributing local knowledge and experience of working with communities in Bristol. They have helped with sample construction and recruitment of research participants for interviews and questionnaire, and have helped with community research. |
| Impact | Workshop (contribution to decisions made over direction of research and GPS sample construction), workshop report, annotated bibliographies, community research database. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Partnership with community partners |
| Organisation | Wellspring Healthy Living Centre |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Research expertise, intellectual input. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Contributing local knowledge and experience of working with communities in Bristol. They have helped with sample construction and recruitment of research participants for interviews and questionnaire, and have helped with community research. |
| Impact | Workshop (contribution to decisions made over direction of research and GPS sample construction), workshop report, annotated bibliographies, community research database. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Partnership with key partners (ACH, BSWN, Eastside, and Vosur) |
| Organisation | Ashley Community Housing |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Research expertise, intellectual input, research management, access to data. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Professional expertise, intellectual input, access to data, network of contacts. |
| Impact | Annotated bibliographies, community research database, workshop participation, ACH news report. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Partnership with key partners (ACH, BSWN, Eastside, and Vosur) |
| Organisation | Black South West Network |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Research expertise, intellectual input, research management, access to data. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Professional expertise, intellectual input, access to data, network of contacts. |
| Impact | Annotated bibliographies, community research database, workshop participation, ACH news report. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Partnership with key partners (ACH, BSWN, Eastside, and Vosur) |
| Organisation | Up Our Street |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Research expertise, intellectual input, research management, access to data. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Professional expertise, intellectual input, access to data, network of contacts. |
| Impact | Annotated bibliographies, community research database, workshop participation, ACH news report. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Partnership with key partners (ACH, BSWN, Eastside, and Vosur) |
| Organisation | Voscur |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Research expertise, intellectual input, research management, access to data. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Professional expertise, intellectual input, access to data, network of contacts. |
| Impact | Annotated bibliographies, community research database, workshop participation, ACH news report. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Paul Hamlyn Foundation |
| Organisation | Paul Hamlyn Foundation |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Professional expertise and intellectual input. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Professional expertise and intellectual input. |
| Impact | N/A |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Ashley Community Housing News Article |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | News article announcing project with quotes from PI Jon Fox, Marvin Rees Mayor of Bristol and the CEO of key partner ACH. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://ach.org.uk/news-and-features/uk-first-ps960000-project-explores-integration-bristol |
| Description | Bridging the Gap - Bringing Together Research, Policy and Delivery on Migration. An ACH/MMB seminar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | First in a series of five seminars to be held in 2021 by ACH and Migration Mobilities Bristol on research, policy and practice in the field of migration. These seminars are the result of a strengthened partnership between staff on the project and ACH and aim to spark discussion and facilitate knowledge exchange between policy makers, researchers, and third sector organisations. ACH is an award-winning social enterprise providing a range of innovative and impactful support and integration services for refugees, BAME and migrant individuals. Blurb for the seminar: Migrants and refugees often see enterprise as their route to opportunity. But, in many cases, they are regarded as doing so out of necessity and given low priority by mainstream organisations providing business support. This can lead to greater precarity for those seeking this route. This seminar asks, are we missing an opportunity, both to assist those trying to become autonomous and to stimulate innovation and growth in the wider economy? |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://migration.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/event/bridging-the-gap-bringing-together-research-policy-and-d... |
| Description | Bristol 24/7 News Article |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A news report on the project, including an interview with PI Jon Fox. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/news/bristol-integration-project-a-uk-first/ |
| Description | Bristol Mayor's blog post |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Bristol Mayor Marvin Rees announced the collaboration between UoB and BCC on this research project on his blog. He described the project, its approach to integration, the phases of research and the Integration Toolkit output. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://thebristolmayor.com/2019/07/05/bristol-wins-bid-for-1m-everyday-integration-project/ |
| Description | Epigram News Article |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | A news article in the online newspaper Epigram, 'Post-Brexit social concerns' of Uni professors inspire Bristol city integration research.' The article describes the project and invites people to contact the PI with thoughts on the topic. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://epigram.org.uk/2019/08/01/everyday-integration-project/ |
| Description | Everyday Integration Project Brief Presentation (EUROCITIES) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Presentation by Jon Fox at the Volunteer Exchange event for the EUROCITIES Values Programme, Centre for European Volunteering. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Migration Mobilities Bristol blog post |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Blog post for the Migration Mobilities Bristol Specialist Research Institute website that introduced the project and its main objectives and approaches. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://migration.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2019/07/23/everyday-integration/ |
| Description | Presentation at Inclusive Cities project meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Jon Fox presented the results of the Whose Bristol social survey to the Inclusive Cities project meeting. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.compas.ox.ac.uk/project/inclusive-cities/ |
| Description | Presentation to Special Interest Group Counter Extremism (SIGCE), Home Office and LGA |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Jon Fox presented 'Everyday Integration: An Overview' to the Special Interest Group Counter Extremism (SIGCE), which is a collaboration between the Home Office and LGA. It was attended by members of the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.local.gov.uk/sigce |
| Description | Project used for Migration Mobilities Bristol futurelearn free online course |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | 693 people enrolled on the Migration, Mobilities and Citizenship Futurelearn course, which drew on the project as part of the teaching. The course was designed to help people better understand the processes and experiences of migration and to develop critical thinking skills around the concepts of migration and mobilities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/migration-mobilities-bristol-online-short-course-essentials |
| Description | |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Twitter account with 205 followers. We have used this to promote news related to the project (job advertisements) and to promote the work of our community partners. We will use it to promote future events related to the project and to announce research outputs. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019,2020 |
| URL | https://twitter.com/everydayinteg |
| Description | Workshop with Community Partners |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | A workshop to involve community organisations in the research project. We asked attendees to share their experiences of integration and non-integration in Bristol, which we collected and analysed for themes. We sent a report on our findings to our mailing list contacts. We also asked for feedback on our approach to GPS sampling, which has informed our approach to the sample construction. As a result of the event, we have received requests for further collaboration. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |