Grey and Pleasant Land? An Interdisciplinary Exploration of the Connectivity of Older People in Rural Civic Society
Lead Research Organisation:
Plymouth University
Department Name: Sch of Nursing & Midwifery
Abstract
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Publications
Shergold I
(2012)
Transport-related social exclusion amongst older people in rural Southwest England and Wales
in Journal of Rural Studies
Shergold I
(2012)
Rural car dependence: an emerging barrier to community activity for older people
in Transportation Planning and Technology
Simon Evans (Author)
(2011)
Civic engagement and rural elders : how important is 'the big society' debate?
Vanessa Burholt (Author)
(2010)
The dimensionality of 'place attachment' for older people in rural areas of England and Wales
Vanessa Burholt (Author)
(2011)
Social exclusion of older people in rural communities and the impact on social cohesion
Vanessa Burholt (Author)
(2011)
Urban and rural dimensions of placelessness and attachment to place
Vanessa Burholt (Author)
(2009)
The next decade of research on rural ageing
Vanessa Burholt (Author)
(2010)
Social connections of older rural adults
Vanessa Burholt (Author)
(2011)
The dimensionality of 'place attachment' for older people in rural areas of England and Wales
| Title | Rufus Stone |
| Description | Josh Appignanesi, London-based filmmaker, script writer and director, was chosen to direct a short film based in three years of research at Bournemouth University. The film, Rufus Stone, tells the story of being gay and growing older in the British countryside.The research project's lead investigator acted as Executive Producer and Author on the film. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2011 |
| Title | Rural ageing in the United Kingdom 2009-2012 |
| Description | This collection includes qualitative and quantitative datasets from the Grey and Pleasant Land project, funded under the RCUK's New Dynamics of Ageing programme interdisciplinary research initiative. These data were collected to address the principal project research questions: (1) how and in what ways are older people connected to civic society in rural settings in England and Wales? (2) what is the impact of this connectivity on older people's quality of life in rural areas? and (3) how is later life experienced across diverse rural contexts and within subgroups of older people? This archived collection comprises data from older people aged 60 and over in six project study sites (from 3 rural place types each [accessible, less accessible, remote and inaccessible] in southwest England and Wales). These include a face-to-face survey of 922 respondents and a supplementary telephone survey with a sub-sample of 419 (Workpackage 1); 68 oral histories focused on leisure over the lifecourse collected in one study site only (North Cornwall) (Workpackage 2); 54 qualitative interviews with older respondents focused on transport and mobility (Workpackage 3); 29 qualitative interviews with older respondents focused on welfare and well-being in rural areas (Workpackage 5); 5 qualitative interviews with policy actors on older people in the study locations in southwest England and Wales (Workpackage 5); threads from the research team's online discussion forum focused on interdisciplinary approaches to investigating rural ageing (Workpackage 7). |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | This research database continues to be used by the former project team members to generate publications as reported in the Researchfish publications section. |
| URL | http://reshare.ukdataservice.ac.uk/853264/ |
| Description | Beyond the Book: new forms of academic communication |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | One of three panel members at the LSE Review of Books hosted event as part of the 5th London School of Economiocs Space for Thought Literary Festival. Jones' presentation entitled,"Performative Social Science: What it is and how it started" with reference to the short film, Rufus Stone. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Facilitating discretionary mobility amongst seniors in rural areas : findings from the NDA project 'grey and pleasant land' on older people's connectivity in rural civic society |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | This presentation was delivered at the seminar 'Health, Wellbeing Quality of Life and Outdoor Spaces', Bristol University, 20 June 2011. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Grey and Pleasant Land: Engaging with the Project Findings on Older People's Participation in Rural Community Life |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | This is a presentation of the findings from the Grey and Pleasant Land project based primarily on the data from the project study sites in Wales. It was delivered to OPAN Cyrmu, the Older People's Ageing Research and Development Network for Wales on 20th March, 2013 at the University of Swansea. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Grey and pleasant land? : end of project newsletter |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | This is the last in a series of five newsletters reporting the progress and findings of the Grey and Pleasant Land project. It is intended for project dissemination to the project's Older People's Panel and to lay audiences. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Modalities of connectivity for healthy ageing in the community |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Presented at University of the West of England seminar 'Preparing for an ageing society: is the built environment fit for the future?' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Older gays in rural areas; protest over art and culture in America |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | BBC Radio 4 broadcast; interview by Laurie Taylor Dr Kip Jones from Bournemouth University discusses the challenges faced by older gay men and lesbians who live in rural areas of The South West of England and Wales. His paper, 'Gay and Pleasant Land?' uses first hand evidence to explore the attitudes of both older gay countryside dwellers and the communities they live in. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
| Description | Older people in rural areas (OPeRA) newsletter four |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | This is the fourth newsletter of the Older People in Rural Areas (OPeRA) network, a research collaboration between Bournemouth University, the University of the West of England and Plymouth University. The audience for the newsletter is the OPeRA Older People's Panel and other stakeholders in rural ageing research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2009 |
| Description | Older people in rural areas (OPeRA) newsletter three : spring 2009 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | This is the third newsletter of the Older People in Rural Areas (OPeRA) network, a research collaboration between Bournemouth University, the University of the West of England and Plymouth University. The audience for the newsletter is the OPeRA Older People's Panel and other stakeholders in rural ageing research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2009 |
| Description | Older people's participation in rural community life : barriers and facilitators to active ageing |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Participants in your research or patient groups |
| Results and Impact | Presentation delivered to the Peninsula Public Health Network Section not completed |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Research on rural gerontology : where have we got to and where are we going? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Staff seminar |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Rural isolation amongst rural elders : identifying it and ameliorating it |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | This presentation was delivered to the Herefordshire County Council, Withington, Hereford, 2 December, 2011. Section not completed |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
| Description | Shunning the journals, scholar brings work on older gays to life in film |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Article reporting on the collaboration of filmmaker, Josh Appignanesi and researcher Kip Jones on the short film, "Rufus Stone". The New York Times |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| URL | http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/11/world/europe/11iht-educSide11.html?_r=3 |
| Description | The grey and pleasant land |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation given to the Rhayader Wellbeing Club on 24 June 2010 in Rhayader, Powys, Wales. Section not completed |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |