Afect, affordance and connecting rural and urban communities

Lead Research Organisation: University of Leicester
Department Name: Geography

Abstract

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Description This project explored the significance of the concepts of 'affect' and 'affordance' on understandings of community. A key finding of the project was that traces of these concepts can be found within many of the 'classic community' studies of the mid twentieth century. The study also demonstrated the value of mobile and psycho-social interviewing in the examination of affect and affordance.
Exploitation Route The findings of this project fed directly into the development of an AHRC Demonstrator project that sought to further examine the concepts of affect and affordance within community studies and the influence of mobility on the construction of contemporary communities.
Sectors Communities and Social Services/Policy
 
Description This exploratory project fed into the development of a large AHRC Demonstrator Project entitled 'Revisiting the mid-point of British communities: a study of affect, affordance and connectivity in Glossop'.
First Year Of Impact 2011
Sector Communities and Social Services/Policy
Impact Types Cultural
 
Description Programme Coordination Team, Landscape Decisions - Towards a new framework for using land assets
Amount £739,330 (GBP)
Funding ID NE/T002182/1 
Organisation Natural Environment Research Council 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 06/2019 
End 05/2023