Re-imagining LGBTQ+ Multi-generational Communities

重新构想 LGBTQ 多代社区

• 批准号: ES/Y009959/1
• 负责人: Eleanor Whitcroft
• 金额: $ 6.45万
• 依托单位: University of Sussex
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FY009959%2F1
• 关键词: Re; imagining; LGBTQ+; Multi; generational

This project brings together LGBTQ+ University students and older LGBTQ+ Brighton & Hove community members with aim to tackle loneliness and social isolation through intergenerational community building.The principal aim of this project is to encourage LGBTQ+ intergenerational community ties that promote communication, solidarity, and in-person knowledge exchange following the isolating effects of Covid-19 pandemic. Statistically, LGBTQ+ people are less likely to grow old than their non- LGBTQ+ counterparts, and they are a group more likely to die by suicide. At the same time, the covid pandemic has disproportionately affected the mental health of LGBTQ+ students at Universities in the UK. A recent study by student minds shows that these students are more likely to struggle with mental health due to a sense of loneliness and isolation at University. The project will take place through in-person befriending meetings (weekly or bi-weekly), visual arts design workshops (once monthly), and 'knowledge cascading' research workshops (once termly). The project will run over university term-time (1 September 2023 - 30 June 2024), in two 16-week cycles, with opportunity to adjust workshop models and content.The aim of the workshops is to use visual arts to create empowering narratives that picture local LGBTQ+ history, identity, and community. In the workshops, we will use comics, zines, photography, and other visual storytelling mapping exercises to think about LGBTQ+ identity and what resilience looks like. This project develops a knowledge cascading community model where knowledge flows down from older LGBTQ+ participants to LGBTQ+ university students, and back up again. While there will be room to talk about personal experience, the aim of the workshop is to materially visualise LGBTQ+ identity, and to create a picture of what community looks like. Alongside the workshops, the students and community members aged 55+ will also meet in pairs to encourage community building and knowledge exchange. This will be managed by the lead researcher, who has a conversation with each participant, and matches participants by age (there should be two older community members and two university students in each 'befriending pod'). These pods will then be instructed to meet in-person at least twice a month, for 30 mins to an hour during each meeting. They will be provided with conversation starter packs (which include questions to ask, short 'icebreaker' art activities) to help them along. The purpose of these meetings will be stated: to improve the community knowledge exchange, and to address a key challenge outlined in this project: loneliness and isolation. There will four other initiatives running alongside the workshops and befriending scheme: a bespoke workshop for participants interested in learning more about 'knowledge cascading' and community research; ongoing wellbeing recommendations through partnerships, as well as a 'mental health and community building' wellbeing pack which signposts mental health support routes; placement recruitment and design (various courses at the University of Sussex are interested in using this project as a placement option for their students); development of a civic engagement toolkit that can be used by Universities across the UK (including placement models, content design, partnership suggestions); and the creation of a Community Interest Company to ensure the project is sustained through a civic engagement model used by Universities.

该项目汇集了 LGBTQ+ 大学生和老年 LGBTQ+ 布莱顿霍夫社区成员，旨在通过代际社区建设解决孤独和社会孤立问题。该项目的主要目的是鼓励 LGBTQ+ 代际社区联系，促进沟通、团结和内部联系。 Covid-19 大流行的隔离影响后的人员知识交流。据统计，LGBTQ+ 人群比非 LGBTQ+ 人群变老的可能性更小，而且他们是一个更容易自杀的群体。与此同时，新冠疫情对英国大学 LGBTQ+ 学生的心理健康造成了不成比例的影响。最近的一项学生思想研究表明，由于大学里的孤独感和孤立感，这些学生更有可能出现心理健康问题。该项目将通过面对面的交友会议（每周或每两周一次）、视觉艺术设计研讨会（每月一次）和“知识级联”研究研讨会（每学期一次）进行。该项目将在大学学期（2023年9月1日至2024年6月30日）期间运行，分两个16周的周期，并有机会调整研讨会模式和内容。研讨会的目的是利用视觉艺术创造赋权叙事，描绘当地 LGBTQ+ 历史、身份和社区。在研讨会中，我们将使用漫画、杂志、摄影和其他视觉叙事映射练习来思考 LGBTQ+ 身份以及复原力是什么样子。该项目开发了一个知识级联社区模型，其中知识从年长的 LGBTQ+ 参与者流向 LGBTQ+ 大学生，然后再次回流。虽然会有讨论个人经历的空间，但研讨会的目的是实质性地形象化 LGBTQ+ 身份，并描绘出社区的面貌。除了研讨会之外，55 岁以上的学生和社区成员还将结对见面，以鼓励社区建设和知识交流。这将由首席研究员管理，他与每个参与者进行对话，并按年龄匹配参与者（每个“交友舱”中应该有两名年长的社区成员和两名大学生）。然后，这些小组将被要求每月至少举行两次面对面会议，每次会议持续 30 分钟到 1 小时。我们将为他们提供对话入门包（其中包括要问的问题、简短的“破冰”艺术活动）以帮助他们前进。这些会议的目的将是：改善社区知识交流，并解决该项目中概述的一个关键挑战：孤独和孤立。除了研讨会和交友计划之外，还有其他四项举措：为有兴趣了解更多“知识级联”和社区研究的参与者举办的定制研讨会；通过合作伙伴关系提供持续的健康建议，以及标明心理健康支持路线的“心理健康和社区建设”健康包；安置招聘和设计（苏塞克斯大学的各个课程都有兴趣使用该项目作为学生的安置选择）；开发可供英国各地大学使用的公民参与工具包（包括安置模型、内容设计、合作建议）；创建社区利益公司，以确保该项目通过大学使用的公民参与模式得以维持。