Austerity and Altered Life-Courses: Socio-Political Ruptures to Family, Employment and Housing Biographies Across Europe
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Manchester
Department Name: Environment, Education and Development
Abstract
Austerity and the global economic crisis have had direct and devastating impacts on young people's life-course biographies across Europe since 2008. This has been particularly acute for those now aged 35 and under, experiencing significant disruption ('socio-political ruptures') throughout their formative years. This includes interconnected impacts on family childbearing decisions, employment opportunities, and housing arrangements. These vary depending on context. To investigate these issues, this project is focused on three European devolved or autonomous regions: Greater Manchester (UK), Barcelona Province (Catalonia, Spain) and Sardinia (Italy).
A growing body of academic and policy related research on the lived experiences of austerity and economic crisis considers the impact on young people's futures. However, less understood by academics and policy-makers are the interconnections between socio-political ruptures for/within life-course biographies of young people. A lack of understanding about intersecting socio-political ruptures is also mirrored in policy and government silos, whereby housing, family and employment policies and departments are rarely integrated. There is also a need to embed life-course perspectives into policy-making, to better account for how the social life of policy (such as austerity) has impacts that are felt on the ground long after implementation. As a form of redress, this project proposes thinking about austerity not as a point in time, society or space, but as constantly being formed and reshaped, and in dialogue with experiences, histories and futures.
This project provides the necessary conceptual novelty and empirical innovation to address these complex issues. It does so by synthesising and extending conceptual approaches from across social science disciplines, developing creative methodological tools, and co-designing regional policy recommendations that embed life-course perspectives within regional policy. It will reprise long-term perspectives offered by a life-course approach within geography, with a new methodological twist, and will develop a new approach to understanding policy that considers the 'social life of policy' as spatially and temporally contingent. To advance this agenda, the project is guided by the following research questions:
1. In what ways have young people experienced overlapping socio-political ruptures to their life-courses, according to local austere contexts?
2. How do young people articulate and envision the impacts of these socio-political ruptures on their future biographies?
3. How can life-course perspectives on austerity shape understandings about and applications of the social life of policy?
To address these questions, in-depth creative oral history interviews (100 per site) will be carried out in each site, documenting the impacts of austerity on young people's life-course biographies, focused on the linkages between socio-political ruptures. This will produce a rich, innovative body of data detailing the lived, complex legacies of austerity. With permission edited interviews will be submitted to local public archives in each site and used to develop an exhibition. The comparative empirical elements are also underpinned by systematic area profiles and literature reviews that bring together multi-disciplinary and policy work in the field, across languages and contexts. Co-production workshops, drawing on project findings presented via an exhibition in each site and a website, will develop policy recommendations on bringing life-course perspectives and ideas about the social life of policy into regional policies. These will be discussed at policy implementation workshops with the support of partners and attended by policy-makers from various levels of government. The project will also build a community of praxis leading to the first European research and policy network focused on young people's life-course biographies and austerity (ENYPLA).
A growing body of academic and policy related research on the lived experiences of austerity and economic crisis considers the impact on young people's futures. However, less understood by academics and policy-makers are the interconnections between socio-political ruptures for/within life-course biographies of young people. A lack of understanding about intersecting socio-political ruptures is also mirrored in policy and government silos, whereby housing, family and employment policies and departments are rarely integrated. There is also a need to embed life-course perspectives into policy-making, to better account for how the social life of policy (such as austerity) has impacts that are felt on the ground long after implementation. As a form of redress, this project proposes thinking about austerity not as a point in time, society or space, but as constantly being formed and reshaped, and in dialogue with experiences, histories and futures.
This project provides the necessary conceptual novelty and empirical innovation to address these complex issues. It does so by synthesising and extending conceptual approaches from across social science disciplines, developing creative methodological tools, and co-designing regional policy recommendations that embed life-course perspectives within regional policy. It will reprise long-term perspectives offered by a life-course approach within geography, with a new methodological twist, and will develop a new approach to understanding policy that considers the 'social life of policy' as spatially and temporally contingent. To advance this agenda, the project is guided by the following research questions:
1. In what ways have young people experienced overlapping socio-political ruptures to their life-courses, according to local austere contexts?
2. How do young people articulate and envision the impacts of these socio-political ruptures on their future biographies?
3. How can life-course perspectives on austerity shape understandings about and applications of the social life of policy?
To address these questions, in-depth creative oral history interviews (100 per site) will be carried out in each site, documenting the impacts of austerity on young people's life-course biographies, focused on the linkages between socio-political ruptures. This will produce a rich, innovative body of data detailing the lived, complex legacies of austerity. With permission edited interviews will be submitted to local public archives in each site and used to develop an exhibition. The comparative empirical elements are also underpinned by systematic area profiles and literature reviews that bring together multi-disciplinary and policy work in the field, across languages and contexts. Co-production workshops, drawing on project findings presented via an exhibition in each site and a website, will develop policy recommendations on bringing life-course perspectives and ideas about the social life of policy into regional policies. These will be discussed at policy implementation workshops with the support of partners and attended by policy-makers from various levels of government. The project will also build a community of praxis leading to the first European research and policy network focused on young people's life-course biographies and austerity (ENYPLA).
Planned Impact
This project will develop new and in-depth conceptual, methodological and practical insights into the lived impacts of austerity on young people's future life-course biographies. It will also develop policy recommendations for embedding life-course and the 'social life of policy' approaches within policy making at the regional scale. As such, and with a rich variety of engagement activities, it presents a unique opportunity for cross-sector knowledge formation and impact. This includes:
- Regional and national organisations directly engaging with young people impacted by austerity in UK, Spain and Italy. This includes project partners (TDM2000 and Young Manchester) and similar organisations who work directly with young people affected, and sector-specific groups, such as housing organisations (Shelter, Orbit and PAH) and welfare, employment and wellbeing organisations (ABD and Inspiring Futures). The project is a real opportunity for regional and national organisations to benefit from networking across sectors (e.g. housing with youth organisations), as well as internationally across the three project sites. This is supported by project partnerships and activities such as creative oral history workshops, and through collaborator and academic advisor networks.
- Policy-makers: including the three devolved or autonomous regional governments of Greater Manchester, Barcelona Province and Sardinia, local authorities, and national policy-makers from government and third sector, looking to learn from international cases. We anticipate interest in the project from wide ranging policy stakeholders given the intersectional scope and possibilities for evidence-led regional policy outcomes (through co-produced policy workshops and policy implementation events). Furthermore, a key outcome of the project is to find ways to integrate a 'social life of policy' approach at the regional level initially, which considers how the impacts of policies, such as austerity measures, continue to be felt on the ground long after implementation and even extermination. Crucially, this includes embedding notions of the life-course in policy making, to consider how policies are placed in both space and time.
- General public: such as young people and their families who have been affected by austerity, or wish to see policy change to reduce inequalities. Impacts in this regard are developed and measured through engagement and feedback mechanisms at creative oral history methods workshops, co-production policy events, a public-facing audio exhibition, and an interactive website. Members of the public, for whom taking part and sharing personal stories can be incredibly valuable and empowering, also engage with the research as participants (100 per site).
- Research community: this project aims to build a community of praxis within and beyond academia, across languages (English, Catalan, Spanish, Italian) and national contexts (UK, Spain, Italy), with an interest in austerity and economic change, youth transitions, life-course studies, housing, employment and family. In particular, a major outcome of the project is the development of the first European network on young people's life-course biographies altered by austerity (ENYPLA), which brings together academics, practitioners and policy-makers across Europe around this significant and topical agenda.
- Regional and national organisations directly engaging with young people impacted by austerity in UK, Spain and Italy. This includes project partners (TDM2000 and Young Manchester) and similar organisations who work directly with young people affected, and sector-specific groups, such as housing organisations (Shelter, Orbit and PAH) and welfare, employment and wellbeing organisations (ABD and Inspiring Futures). The project is a real opportunity for regional and national organisations to benefit from networking across sectors (e.g. housing with youth organisations), as well as internationally across the three project sites. This is supported by project partnerships and activities such as creative oral history workshops, and through collaborator and academic advisor networks.
- Policy-makers: including the three devolved or autonomous regional governments of Greater Manchester, Barcelona Province and Sardinia, local authorities, and national policy-makers from government and third sector, looking to learn from international cases. We anticipate interest in the project from wide ranging policy stakeholders given the intersectional scope and possibilities for evidence-led regional policy outcomes (through co-produced policy workshops and policy implementation events). Furthermore, a key outcome of the project is to find ways to integrate a 'social life of policy' approach at the regional level initially, which considers how the impacts of policies, such as austerity measures, continue to be felt on the ground long after implementation and even extermination. Crucially, this includes embedding notions of the life-course in policy making, to consider how policies are placed in both space and time.
- General public: such as young people and their families who have been affected by austerity, or wish to see policy change to reduce inequalities. Impacts in this regard are developed and measured through engagement and feedback mechanisms at creative oral history methods workshops, co-production policy events, a public-facing audio exhibition, and an interactive website. Members of the public, for whom taking part and sharing personal stories can be incredibly valuable and empowering, also engage with the research as participants (100 per site).
- Research community: this project aims to build a community of praxis within and beyond academia, across languages (English, Catalan, Spanish, Italian) and national contexts (UK, Spain, Italy), with an interest in austerity and economic change, youth transitions, life-course studies, housing, employment and family. In particular, a major outcome of the project is the development of the first European network on young people's life-course biographies altered by austerity (ENYPLA), which brings together academics, practitioners and policy-makers across Europe around this significant and topical agenda.
Organisations
- University of Manchester (Fellow, Lead Research Organisation)
- Shelter (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- University of Cagliari (Collaboration)
- Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) (Collaboration)
- Orbit Housing Group (Collaboration)
- PAH Platform Affected by Hiccup (Project Partner)
- Young Manchester (Project Partner)
- ORBIT (Project Partner)
- ABD - Welfare & Development Association (Project Partner)
- Inspiring Futures Partnership (Project Partner)
- TDM2000 (Project Partner)
People |
ORCID iD |
Sarah Hall (Principal Investigator / Fellow) |
Publications
Hall S
(2021)
Creative Methods for Human Geographers
Hall, S.M.
(2021)
Reproductive Futures in Austerity
Hall, S.M.
(2021)
Oral Histories and Futures: Methods for Change
Thurnell-Read T
(2022)
Alcohol, Age, Generation and the Life Course
Tinkler P
(2022)
Introducing 'resonance': Revisioning the relationship between youth and later life in women born 1939-52
in The Sociological Review
Hall S
(2022)
Social reproduction, labour and austerity: Carrying the future
in The Sociological Review
Pottinger L
(2022)
Talking methods, talking about methods: Invoking the transformative potential of social methods through animals, objects and how-to instructions
in Geo: Geography and Environment
Leyland J
(2022)
Classics Revisited: 'Muddy glee' - What geography fieldwork means in the current moment
in Area
Title | Feminist Collective Manifesto - Illustrated |
Description | Urban Justice, Gender and Social Difference Co-Lead, Manchester Urban Institute I co-lead this feminist collective on gender inequality and urban life. Encompassing a feminist reading group, seminars, discussion sessions and panels, and a caring research community. In 2021 the collective co-produced a manifesto for our values and activities, which was illustrated by India Joseph. |
Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
Year Produced | 2021 |
Impact | Widely shared on social media. |
URL | https://twitter.com/Sarah_M_Hall/status/1486697870514434050 |
Title | Oral Histories and Futures animation |
Description | Animation about the Oral Histories and Futures method |
Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
Year Produced | 2021 |
Impact | Use of the video in university training modules on methods, to accompany the how-to-guide. |
URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RU_zeCfDAeA&feature=emb_imp_woyt |
Description | Expert Evaluator, Germany |
Geographic Reach | Europe |
Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
Impact | Influence scope and focus of this large research centre, as it goes into the second half of it's funded period. |
Description | MCC Methods training |
Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Impact | Changes to future research in field of economic strategy |
Description | Methods Advisory Group DWP |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
Impact | Expert advice, training delivered, analysis, networking. |
URL | https://www.gov.uk/government/groups/dwp-methods-advisory-group |
Description | National Lottery |
Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
Description | Reducing Parental Conflict Programme |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
Description | Shaping MCC Economic Policy |
Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
Impact | We expect to see impacts of the anti-poverty strategy on local economies and communities; we have influenced the remit and scope of the report to ensure it represents the needs of local groups. |
Description | Aspect |
Amount | £250,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | United Kingdom Research and Innovation |
Department | Research England |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 03/2022 |
Description | Creative and Authentic Co-Production Methods: Podcasts, Poems and Zines |
Amount | £5,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | University of Southampton |
Department | ESRC National Centre for Research Methods |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 10/2022 |
End | 06/2023 |
Description | GSAG Research and Support Award |
Amount | $250 (USD) |
Organisation | American Association of Geographers |
Sector | Learned Society |
Country | United States |
Start | 02/2023 |
End | 02/2023 |
Description | Keeping on with Online Methods (Methods North West Collaborative Innovation Grant) |
Amount | £2,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | North West Consortium Doctoral Training Partnership (NWCDTP) |
Sector | Multiple |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 09/2021 |
End | 07/2022 |
Description | Project-linked PhD Studentship |
Amount | £75,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | University of Manchester |
Sector | Academic/University |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 09/2022 |
End | 09/2025 |
Description | Cuzzocrea - Academic Partner |
Organisation | University of Cagliari |
Country | Italy |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Dr Valentina Cuzzocrea, Academic Partner |
Collaborator Contribution | Contributes to all aspects of project |
Impact | - |
Start Year | 2021 |
Description | Marre - Academic Partner |
Organisation | Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) |
Country | Spain |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Prof Diana Marre - Academic Partner |
Collaborator Contribution | Contributions to all aspects of the project. |
Impact | - |
Start Year | 2021 |
Description | Orbit Housing. Project partners (non-academic) |
Organisation | Orbit Housing Group |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | - |
Collaborator Contribution | - |
Impact | - |
Start Year | 2021 |
Description | Shelter, Greater Manchester. Project partners - non-academic |
Organisation | Shelter |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | Providing networking, training and support |
Collaborator Contribution | Co-producing project materials and approaches |
Impact | TBC |
Start Year | 2021 |
Description | AALC Seminar Series - ongoing |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | In April 2022 we launched our seminar series with an introduction to the research team and our academic partners. We discussed our various bodies of research, fieldwork and personal experiences and other sources of inspiration behind the project. Our second seminar in July 2022 brought researchers Signe Ravn (University of Melbourne), Melanie Lovatt (University of Stirling) and Valentina Cuzzocrea together to discuss experiences of using creative methods to study the life course, and/or points and places within it (e.g. youth, later life). Our third seminar in December 2022 continued with the theme of creative methods for researching the life-course. We shared early thoughts and findings from a creative activity of sending 'postcards from the field'. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022,2023 |
Description | BBC Arabic TV |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Nov 2022, Hall, Sarah Marie. Interviewed on BBC Arabic TV, Cost of Living Crisis |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | BBC Radio Manchester, December 2022 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Dec 2022, Hall, Sarah Marie. Interviewed on BBC Radio Manchester, Cost of Living Crisis |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Council for European Studies |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | 2022 Leyva del Río, Santiago. Are urban commons self-manageable? Social Movements Research Network-Council for European Studies, Lisbon |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | DWP Afghan Resettlement Programme |
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 | Afghan Resettlement Programme, Department for Work and Pensions: high-profile programme, provide expert advice, shaping research strategy, methods, analysis, and evaluation/follow up. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | DWP Parental Conflict |
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 | Reducing Parental Conflict Programme, Department for Work and Pensions: high-profile programme, provide expert advice, shaping research strategy, methods, analysis and findings. The programme has now shaped its research design, methods, analysis and evaluation in light of my contributions. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022,2023 |
Description | DWP event |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Invited talk to all DWP Social researchers, for their Social Research Learning Day 2022. Led a session on 'Sharing and Presenting Findings Creatively |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Decolonising Geography Blog |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | 2022. Hall, Sarah Marie. Everyday geographies of austerity: on the stories not told. Decolonising Geography Blog. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://decolonisegeography.com/blog/2022/04/everyday-geographies-of-austerity-on-the-stories-not-to... |
Description | EASA Biennial Conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | 2022. Leyva del Río, Santiago. Sharing reproduction while de-commodifying housing. 17th EASA Biennial Conference, Belfast |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | ESRC Festival |
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 | We have organised a public discussion and a workshop on austerity and transport poverty as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science in November 2022. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Filmed Contribution, Co-Creation |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | May 2022, Hall, Sarah Marie. Filmed contribution, dialogue with project partners, on Co-creation, |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022,2023 |
URL | https://youtu.be/BSUVpC0CESE |
Description | Filmed contribution, OU |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
Results and Impact | May 2022, Hall, Sarah Marie. Filmed Contribution for Open University Module 'Everyday Geographies'. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022,2023 |
Description | GMPA Invited Speaker |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | July 2022, Hall, Sarah Marie. GMPA Invited Panel Guest. We have collaborated with GMPA at numerous events and workshops, and are now looking at strategic funding and network development |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022,2023 |
Description | GMPA Roundtable |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Aug 2022, Hall, Sarah Marie. GMPA Roundtable, Invited participant |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022,2023 |
Description | Invited Talk, De Montfort |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Centre for Reproduction Research Seminar Series, De Montfort A pregnant pause? Oral histories and futures of reproduction and austerity |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.dmu.ac.uk/research/centres-institutes/crr/past-seminars.aspx |
Description | Invited talk, Edinburgh |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Talking Methods Seminar Series, University of Edinburgh Oral histories and futures: methodological innovations in times of crisis Talk recorded for future use |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://media.ed.ac.uk/media/1_85jgm38d |
Description | Invited talk, Leeds |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Leeds A pregnant pause? Oral histories and futures of reproduction and austerity |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://essl.leeds.ac.uk/sociology/events/event/1100/research-seminar-series-a-pregnant-pause-oral-h... |
Description | LGBTQ communities and friendship |
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 | July 2022, Hall, Sarah Marie. Invited participant, LGBTQ communities and friendship workshop, Edinburgh. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | La Vie, Full Interview |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Hall, Sarah Marie. La Vie, Full Interview on Austerity in the UK, |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://www.lavie.fr/actualite/geopolitique/le-royaume-uni-est-la-societe-la-plus-inegalitaire-deuro... |
Description | Life-Course lecture |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
Results and Impact | 2022, Ackerley, Elizabeth. Guest lecture for UG module 'Life-course geographies: Social transformation and intergenerational justice'. Lecture title: "Researching the lifecourse: young people's politics and austerity" |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Media engagement, MoS |
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 | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Further requests for media engagement |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10456215/More-half-babies-born-middle-class-mothers-figures... |
Description | Media interview, BBC Radio 5 Live 2022 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | BBC Radio 5 Live: Cost of Living crisis. Interviewed by Dotun Adebayo |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Media interview, BBC Radio Manchester Feb 2022 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | BBC RADIO MANCHESTER: Cost of living crisis, further interview requests |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0bhnbys |
Description | Media interview, BBC Radio Manchester March 2022 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | BBC RADIO MANCHESTER: Cost of living crisis, interviewed by Mike Sweeney (daytime show, 10am-2pm) |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Media interview, LBC News Feb 2022 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | LBC news, interviewed by Jim Diamond on the cost of living crisis |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Media interview, LBC, Feb 2022 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | LBC, interviewed by David Lammy on the cost of living crisis |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Methods Lecture |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
Results and Impact | March 2023. Leyva del Ro, Santiago. Guest Lecture UAB (Barcelona) ,module 'Asálisis Antropológico del Mundo Contemporáneo'. Lecture title: 'Understanding the lives of austerity through creative methods' |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Methods training |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Throughout Autumn 2022 we have been running a qualitative methods training course for members of Manchester City Council as part of our CAPE project. We organised 5 sessions on designing, doing and delivering qualitative research. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022,2023 |
Description | Methods workshop, NCRM |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | NCRM Research Methods e-fest, Online Creative Approaches to Memory, workshop and panel |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/RMeF2021/ |
Description | Morgan Centre |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | 2022 Routon, Madeline. 'Mothers, wives, friends: women's role in London squatting struggles since 1969'. Paper presented at Morgan Centre Internal Conference, University of Manchester, 2 November, 2022. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Multiple News Media, July 2022 |
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 | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | July 2022, Hall, Sarah Marie. Interviewed on LBC Radio, Transport and Cost of Living Crisis July 2022, Hall, Sarah Marie. Interviewed on Granada TV, Transport and Cost of Living Crisis July 2022, Hall, Sarah Marie. Interviewed on BBC North West TV, Transport and Cost of Living Crisis July 2022, Hall, Sarah Marie. Interviewed on BBC Radio Manchester, Transport and Cost of Living Crisis July 2022, Hall, Sarah Marie. Interviewed on BBC Radio Merseyside, Transport and Cost of Living Crisis July 2022, Hall, Sarah Marie. Interviewed on Jeremy Vine, Channel 5 TV, Cost of Living Crisis |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022,2023 |
Description | Multiple News Media, May 2022 |
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 | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | May 2022, Hall, Sarah Marie. Interviewed on LBC Radio, Cost of Living Crisis May 2022, Hall, Sarah Marie. Interviewed on BBC Radio Manchester, Cost of Living Crisis |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | NCRM Ideas sessions |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | As part of our NCRM project, we are co-producing a methods series with Inspire, a local women's organisation. This involves multiple collaborative sessions and the co-development of materials for the in-person workshops later in 2023. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022,2023 |
Description | PhD Masterclass |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | 2022 Routon, Madeline. 'Mothers, wives, friends: women's role in London squatting struggles since 1969'. Paper presented at 'Towards Just and Equitable Global Political Economies' PhD Masterclass, University of Manchester, 18 October, 2022. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Podcast workshop, Oldham |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
Results and Impact | How to make a community podcast. Workshop for community groups, designed and delivered with Inspire Women, Oldham. They have since developed their own podcast and released it to the general public. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | RGS-IBG conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | 2022. Fenton, Laura. Hammertown, Milltown and Beyond: Re-imaging the Class and Place in Youth Transitions, RGS-IBG Annual International Conference |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Sharing Event |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | In September 2022 we held the 'Sharing untold stories in creative ways' event, bringing together three organisations across Greater Manchester: Heart and Parcel, Inspire Women Oldham, and Safety for Sisters. Inspire discussed their podcast; Heart and Parcel talked about their cookbook; and Safety for Sisters spoke about their poetry collection, followed by group discussions. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Showcase event, online |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Methods for Change: showcasing social science methodologies This final showcase event brought together the Methods for Change academic contributors and a range of professionals from policy, charity, business and creative sectors. In the panel discussions, and an interactive session, we unpicked the importance and opportunities for social science methods to create transformative change in these sectors. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://aspect.ac.uk/news-and-events/methods-for-change-showcase-event/ |
Description | Smart Transport Magazine |
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 | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Aug 2022, Hall, Sarah Marie. Quoted in Smart Transport Magazine |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.smarttransport.org.uk/insight-and-policy/finance-and-funding/transport-poverty-is-poor-r... |
Description | Streets Ahead Podcast |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | 2022. Hall, Sarah Marie. Interviewed for Cost of living & transport, Streets Ahead Podcast, Season 1, Ep. 46 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://shows.acast.com/streets-ahead/episodes/cost-of-living-transport |
Description | Student Projects, Hamburg |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
Results and Impact | 2023, Team. March -April, provide expert advice to undergraduate students from Hamburg University; discussions on austerity and poverty in Greater Manchester |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Stylist Magazine |
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 | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | 2022. Briggs, Alison. Stylist Magazine: Mortgage payments are set to soar - so how does this impact renters? |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.stylist.co.uk/life/mortgage-rate-increases-impact-on-renters-landlords/720196 |
Description | The Conversation |
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 | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | 2023. Hall, Sarah Marie. Austerity has its own life, The Conversation |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://theconversation.com/austerity-has-its-own-life-heres-how-it-lives-on-in-future-generations-1... |
Description | The i newspaper |
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 | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Oct 2022, Hall, Sarah Marie. Quoted in The Independent |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://inews.co.uk/news/how-food-prices-became-so-unaffordable-and-what-rishi-sunak-can-do-about-it... |
Description | Times Radio Feb 2022 |
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 | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | TIMES RADIO: Cost of living crisis, further interview requests |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.thetimes.co.uk/radio/show/20220312-11422/2022-03-12 |
Description | Transport Austerity |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Jan 2023, Luca, Karen and Hall, Sarah Marie. Transport and Economic Austerity policy event, |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022,2023 |
URL | https://www.policy.manchester.ac.uk/events/upcoming-events/transport-and-economic-austerity/ |
Description | Work in Progress session |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | In December 2022, we organised a work-in-progress workshop to coincide with Dr Signe Ravn's visit to the University of Manchester from the University of Melbourne. The workshop featured presentations from a multi-disciplinary group of postgraduate, early career and established researchers from the University of Manchester and Manchester Metropolitan University. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Workshop and mentoring, Berlin |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | IRS Spring Academy, Spaces of Crisis, Berlin Invited workshop on 'Exploring Everyday Crisis Using Ethnographic Methods' and event mentor |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://leibniz-irs.de/en/aktuelles/veranstaltungen/05/irs-spring-academy-2021 |
Description | Writing workshop, Birmingham |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Children Youth and Families Research Group, University of Birmingham Invited to deliver an ECR and PGR writing workshop |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Youth Organisation visit |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | 2023. Ackerley, Elizabeth. Young people's activism in times of austerity. Presentation of key findings for local partner organisation RECLAIM. January, 2023. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |