Timescapes - School of Sociology and Social Policy

• BBC Memoryshare
• Archive

Welcome to Timescapes, the first major qualitative longitudinal study to be funded in the UK.

The study is funded for 5 years from February 2007 by the ESRC. We are exploring how personal and family relationships develop and change over time. Our focus is relationships with significant others: parents, grandparents, siblings, children, partners, friends and lovers.

We are using the method of ‘walking alongside’ people to document their growing up, relationships, having children, living in families and growing older. We are interested in how these experiences impact on people’s well-being and life chances. We also want to explore what this means for the long term resourcing of families.

In depth interviews, oral narratives, photographs and other visual documents are being collected for the Timescapes archive. Current and future generations of researchers will be able to reuse this resource. The archive offers exciting possibilities for re-searching data through time and across the generations.

Partners

• Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC)
• London South Bank University
• Cardiff University
• The University of Edinburgh
• The Open University
• UK Data Archive