Environments : homes, housing and neighbourhoods
Healthy Homes
I worked with Professor Linda Jones, Dr Verina Waights and Professor Sheila Peace on an evaluation of the public health effects of a local authority housing renovation project. Sample households involved in the programme were surveyed prior to renovation work and were surveyed again following renovations. For these further data collections local residents were recruited, trained, and supported to use the survey instrument and to take part in the analysis.
I worked with Professor Linda Jones, Dr Verina Waights and Professor Sheila Peace on an evaluation of the public health effects of a local authority housing renovation project. Sample households involved in the programme were surveyed prior to renovation work and were surveyed again following renovations. For these further data collections local residents were recruited, trained, and supported to use the survey instrument and to take part in the analysis.
Extra Care Housing
Jeanne Katz and I describe findings from a series of 16 focus group sessions with middle-aged and older members of Jewish communities in London and the south east of England as they considered the 'pros and cons' of Extra Care housing:
Holland, C. and Katz, J.S. (2010) Cultural Identity and belonging in later life: is extra care housing an attractive concept to older Jewish people living in Britain? Journal of Cultural Gerontology, 25(1) pp59-69
Holland, C. and Katz, J.S. (2010) Cultural Identity and belonging in later life: is extra care housing an attractive concept to older Jewish people living in Britain? Journal of Cultural Gerontology, 25(1) pp59-69
Social Interactions in Urban Public Places
Participative research : carried out by academic and local non-academic observers working together.
Public places are at the heart of the civic life of towns and cities, allowing spaces for people meet, see and be seen. In theory they open to everyone, but even cursory observation shows that some people dominate public spaces more than others. Research that looked in particular at the use of public places by older people and younger people was carried out by a team that included Dr Andrew Clark (now at the University of Salford), Dr Jeanne Katz, Professor Sheila Peace and myself, and a large team of local people who lived, worked, or studied in Aylesbury. The research was funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and the Report was published by Policy Press
Public places are at the heart of the civic life of towns and cities, allowing spaces for people meet, see and be seen. In theory they open to everyone, but even cursory observation shows that some people dominate public spaces more than others. Research that looked in particular at the use of public places by older people and younger people was carried out by a team that included Dr Andrew Clark (now at the University of Salford), Dr Jeanne Katz, Professor Sheila Peace and myself, and a large team of local people who lived, worked, or studied in Aylesbury. The research was funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and the Report was published by Policy Press
Environment and Identity in Later Life: a cross-setting study
Throughout life, everyday interactions with our particular material, social, and psychological environments influence our sense of self - and at the same time who we think we are influences how we behave in particular places. In later life, people bring to this relationship a lifetime's experience of responding to the challenges of changing environments. These experiences have a direct bearing on how individuals create and maintain 'home' in later life.
The research for this project was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) in 1999-2003 as part of the 'Growing Older' research programme. This study by Sheila Peace , Leonie Kellaher and myself took place in England - in Haringey (north London), Bedford and Northamptonshire. Unusually it involved older people living in a range of different kinds of accommodation including, among others, residential care homes; high-rise council flats; and large detached houses - and it looked at many levels of 'environment' from small domestic objects within the home to neighbourhoods and towns.
The research for this project was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) in 1999-2003 as part of the 'Growing Older' research programme. This study by Sheila Peace , Leonie Kellaher and myself took place in England - in Haringey (north London), Bedford and Northamptonshire. Unusually it involved older people living in a range of different kinds of accommodation including, among others, residential care homes; high-rise council flats; and large detached houses - and it looked at many levels of 'environment' from small domestic objects within the home to neighbourhoods and towns.
