Timescapes - An ESRC Qualitative Longitudinal Study
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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.
FAMILY LIVES AND TURNING POINTS EXHIBITION
Family Lives and Turning Points: People's accounts from across the Generations
Venue:London (tbc)
18th March 2010
This event is being held as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science in collaboration between Timescapes and the BBC Memoryshare. The aim of the exhibiton is to engage the general public in the Timescapes study by inviting people to submit their own accounts of key family turning points through filling out an e-postcard/postcard and entering the 'Turning Points Photography Competition'. A selection of these accounts (written & visual) will be displayed at the Family Turning Points Exhibition (March 2010). The remaining accounts will form part of the Timescapes Archive and BBC Memoryshare.
Submit your own accounts here and they too could form part of an important Timescapes Archicve collection and also be deposited onto the BBC Memoryshare website.
Timescapes Memoryshare
Latest Timescapes memory: Being part of a large family in the 21st Century
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FAMILY TURNING POINTS PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITION FEB 2010
As part of the Family Turning Points Exhibition Timescapes will be running a photography competition during February 2010. We are welcoming photographs showing key turning points in people's family lives; i.e. births, marriages, divorces, christenings etc. For more details about the competition including how you can enter, please go to the Family Turning Points Exhibition events page.
Getting involved
There are a number of ways of becoming involved in Timescapes.