The Institute for Community Studies have launched a new journal. They say “The Journal for Community Studies presents academic research and evidence alongside lived experiences and local views, exploring issues that matter to UK communities from different perspectives.”
As this will no doubt have relevance to Active Partnerships’ place-based work we will add the Journal to our ongoing monitoring at London Sport and share relevant headlines with you all via the Insight Mail.
Issue one contains articles about: Social infrastructure; Community ownership; Intergenerational relationships; Diversity; Digital inclusion. You can access it here: Journal for Community Studies – The Young Foundation
Headlines from the first article – on ‘Social Infrastructure’:
- [Defined as a] myriad spaces that support social connection and relationships; such as community buildings and meeting spaces, libraries, youth centres, parks, play areas, faith spaces, sports facilities and social clubs.
- …settings are all intended to support interaction, relationships and connection between community members, and through this promote trust, co-operation, mutual support and thriving communities.
- Efforts to measure and map social infrastructure have been hampered by the lack of consensus over definition and limited data.
- … analysis has revealed stark geographical inequalities in provision.
You can read more about Social Infrastructure, how it is combined with socioeconomic disadvantage to create a measure of ‘Double Deprivation’, and where in England double deprivation is most prevalent at: Essential but unequal: the need for social infrastructure in every place | Joseph Rowntree Foundation