Co-producing inclusive housing and care solutions with older LGBTQ people
Research summary
The research project investigates how to co-produce inclusive housing and care solutions for older LGBTQ people, a group disproportionally affected by social isolation and exclusion from mainstream services.
Using ethnographic and creative methods, the research will document the temporal, material, relational, spatial and affective aspects of LGBTQ housing and care experiences.
Research aims
This project will lay the groundwork for a major funding bid addressing the unmet housing and care needs of older LGBTQ people. It will achieve this by:
- Generating insights on how to co-produce inclusive housing and care solutions by working with UK’s first purpose-built housing-with-care scheme for older LGBTQ people, currently being developed in Manchester.
- Advancing Creative Manchester’s aims concerning health and wellbeing via creative practice, drawing on social work and care aesthetics to understand innovations in social care.
- Critically engaging with design and place-making as co-produced processes with potential both to sustain and unsettle existing disciplinary distinctions and hierarchies.
- Enhancing and developing an interdisciplinary team of researchers and partners to build resources for future research.
Meet the team
- Principal investigator: Dharman Jeyasingham
- Research associate: Luciana Lang
- Joanna Barrow
- James Hodgson
- Tine Buffel
- Stephen Hicks
The project will also be supported by Partners from the LGBT Foundation and Great Places housing provider, and by creative arts partners working independently.
Funders and partner organisations
- University of Manchester Research Institutes Pump Priming Fund
- LGBT Foundation and Great Places housing provider
Events
The project will run 5 workshops to:
- Explore life course experiences through collaborative biographical interviewing (Temporal);
- Examine engagement with objects in home and care spaces (Material);
- Capture care interactions through observation and sketching (Relational);
- Map belonging and exclusion across neighbourhoods and the city, using walking interviews and ArcGIS methods (Spatial);
- Explore affective experiences through emotion mapping and drama (Affective).
A sketch artist will participate in these workshops, visually documenting participants' experiences.
Contact us
For further information, please contact dharman.jeyasingham@manchester.ac.uk or Luciana.lang@manchester.ac.uk.