Place & Community

This theme positions place and place-based communities as critical mediators of life experiences. A number of projects and programmes within ILAS are orientated around ideas of how places and communities represent powerful factors that intensify advantages, and/or disadvantages in the lives of individuals and groups. In some instances, they may serve as crucial enablers of participation. Work in this area considers multiple dimensions of place, including: physical aspects and embedded infrastructure; social and cultural characteristics; and people’s subjective relationship and links with place. A core part of this themes involves working collaboratively with community stakeholders to identify and promote new ways for different population groups to participate and make place in their localities.

Important work streams in the theme of place and community:

Independent living and Community-Based Care
Civic Engagement and Volunteering
Participation and Spatial Justice
Belonging, Identity and Exclusion

ILAS

The Institute aims to advance people’s lives in Ireland and internationally who face issues with older life, living with disability, children, youth and parents who are vulnerable in social and other contexts. The research at the Institute is underpinned by academic staff and researchers who are keen the work we do makes a difference.

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