Experiences Of Places

Question 1

Persons lived experience

Answer 1

Help them to form their unique perspective of the place

Question 2

The attachment of people to a place

Answer 2

Local dialects, colloquial terms (e.g Liverpudlians - Scousers)

Question 3

Extent to which people engage in a place (measure)

Answer 3

How they choose to be involved in their local communities, how they participate in local and national elections

Question 4

Elections and voting

Answer 4

Voter turnout and the number of people on the electoral register in an area show different levels of community engagement

Question 5

2019 general election

Answer 5

Voter turnout was 67.3%, big differences regionally, In Liverpool the voter turnout was lowest in areas of big cities, 62.9%, where income is low and is highest in the wealthier parts, 77.3%

Question 6

Lowest voting (usually)

Answer 6

In areas in need of regeneration

Question 7

Local council elections

Answer 7

Voter turnout tends to be lo, typically around 35%

Question 8

Community groups

Answer 8

They can be storing advocates for change, usually voluntary and charities, often undertake development work in small places that may be ignored by local authorities

Question 9

Who starts community groups

Answer 9

People who are frustrated by the growing inequality or social injustice in the place they live/work

Question 10

Who are community groups

Answer 10

Supporting network of people who have similar interests in improving places, feel their concerns are not heard by authorities, tend to take activism and raise awareness

Question 11

Example of a community group - Boluntary Actuon Shetland

Answer 11

Based in Lerwick, organisation that trains and supports volunteers to help with specific community needs such as befriending schemes for isolated elderly residents and providing administration support for local businesses

Question 12

Sports and recreation - engagement in an area

Answer 12

Membership of local sports clubs and recreation societies

Question 13

Communication - engagement in an area

Answer 13

Communication within communities makes engagement easier, through social media that can quickly raise awareness for issues, newsletters and collage websites that help people in rural communities feel a greater sense if connectedness

Question 14

Length of residence - lived experince

Answer 14

Recently moved, language or cultural barriers can make it challenging, transient populations (students or second homeowners) differ from permanent residents, student fiction can make it challenging as they don’t care for the future of that area as much as

Question 15

Age - lived experience

Answer 15

Young adults vs elderly, young person may see rural areas as uninteresting so feel less connected whereas elderly will find it tranquil and will want to better it

Question 16

Levels of deprivation - lived experience

Answer 16

Feelings of powerlessness to change a place or address the levels of deprivation may create negative lived experience

Question 17

Ethnicity - lived experience

Answer 17

Specific ethnicity groups may feel the place is disconnected from their own cultural heritage, others may have strong nationalistic feelings with a place that their perceived experiences excluding those who do not share the same ethnicity

Question 18

Studentification

Answer 18

The process by which a place becomes heavily occupied by students

Question 19

Asylum

Answer 19

Protection provided by the state to someone who has pled prosecution in their home country

Question 20

Voting and lived experiences - 2019 general election

Answer 20

Voter turnout was highest in areas that had a greater percentage of people over the age of 65, higher proportion of white oeople voting (63%) than black and ethnic minority groups (52%), higher proportion of men (63%) than women voted (59%)

Question 21

Conflicting ideas around regeneration

Answer 21

Places have a mix of people with different lived experiences

Question 22

Age - conflicts on regen

Answer 22

Young people may be concerned for the future economy and job prospects, so are more likely to favour regeneration, older people who are retired may be less concerned with new employment opportunities and may want to preserve the look of an area so are more against regeneration for economic increase

Question 23

Inequality - conflicts around regen

Answer 23

Reducing inequalities is one of regenerations aims, wealthy people are often socially well connected and may be able to use them to influence decisions in local regeneration projects, others may want to make sure that any regeneration projects don’t inadvertently create more inequality such as between able bodied and disabled people

Question 24

Top down approach to regeneration (lead to)

Answer 24

Conflict

Question 25

Top down regeneration

Answer 25

Plans are most likely to come from large development corporations employed by local and national authorities, consult local people, businesses, and community groups

Question 26

Development corporations top down approaches

Answer 26

These agencies are unlikely to have any lived experinces if the place they are trying to regenerate, might try to fit regeneration ideas that have worked elsewhere into the place in question

Question 27

Local people and top down approaches

Answer 27

Can feel that agencies impose ideas on them rather than having ideas come out of bottom up approach leading to conflict

Question 28

Most common conflict of top down regeneration

Answer 28

Large scale housing development