Living Apart Together: a multi-method analysis
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Bradford
Department Name: Faculty of Social Sciences
Abstract
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Organisations
Publications
Carter J
(2015)
Sex, Love and Security: Accounts of Distance and Commitment in Living Apart Together Relationships
in Sociology
Duncan S
(2014)
Practices and perceptions of living apart together
in Family Science
Duncan S
(2012)
Living Apart Together: uncoupling intimacy and co-residence'
Duncan S
(2013)
Legal rights for people who 'Live Apart Together'?
in Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law
Duncan S
(2015)
Women's Agency in Living Apart Together: Constraint, Strategy and Vulnerability
in The Sociological Review
Duncan S
(2013)
Why do people live apart together?
in Families, Relationships and Societies
Stoilova M
(2016)
Constructions, reconstructions and deconstructions of 'family' amongst people who live apart together (LATs)
in The British Journal of Sociology
| Description | Scientific impact has been achieved in 4 main areas: 1. The establishment of comprehensive empirical knowledge on living apart together (LAT) in Britain, where previously knowledge had been partial and unsure. This information base covers the prevalence and social distribution of LAT, everyday practice and contact, caring practices, perceptions and attitudes about LAT, relationships more widely, and the law, motivations (more or less explicitly articulated) for LAT, understandings and meanings of LAT, and biographical routes into LAT. 2. The employment of this robust knowledge base to evaluate the role and meaning of LAT in contemporary society, where previously debate had been both speculative and weakly supported. Rather than seeing LAT in terms of a 'continuity or change' binary, the research allowed a more sophisticated analysis of the diversity of LAT and its combination of tradition, adaption and change. 3. The application and extension of this examination of LAT to the analysis of wider contemporary issues concerning changes in families, relationships, and personal life. Topics addressed include commitment, sexual exclusivity, friends and family, gender and personal life, and socio-legal reform. 4. Drawing on this enhanced understanding of LAT to address methodological debate about agency and practice in social science more generally. The project has 4 types of societal impact: 1. making accessible to media and practitioner audiences a robust "state of the art" knowledge base on LAT; 2. contributing to the development of more extensive and sophisticated public understanding of LAT through engagement with a range of mass and social media channels; 3. establishing the importance of LAT as a relationship category amongst relationship practitioners; 4. providing a resource for up-to-date and accessible teaching materials about LAT for undergraduate and A-- Level students |
| First Year Of Impact | 2011 |
| Sector | Communities and Social Services/Policy,Education |
| Impact Types | Societal |