Overview

This project explores how intergenerational connection is experienced in the community at the local level, providing evidence to inform policies promoting intergenerational fairness, community cohesion and 'levelling up'.

The project examines:
• Patterns, trends and experiences of neighbourhood intergenerational mixing
• How local geographies of age are shaped by internal migration and residential decision making through the lifecourse
• The ways in which living in an age-mixed community can benefit later life health
• Demographic theorisations of community resilience

These themes are being examined through the combined and integrated use of census data (1970-2021/2, aggregate and individual level datasets), survey data (English Longitudinal Study of Ageing) and neighbourhood case studies (interviews and workshops). Thus, the mixed methods approach pays particular attention to spatial and longitudinal data collection and analysis.

The project is framed by broader concerns about the role of demographic change in the (re)production of social and spatial inequalities.

This research project is led by Professor Nissa Finney.