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Research
Implementing community visions by scaling up social infrastructure
The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) is pleased to share that the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) has awarded the Partnership Development Grant (PDG) to FASS professor of Urban Studies, Meg Holden.
The goal of SSHRC鈥檚 Research Partnerships program is to realize social sciences and humanities research鈥檚 potential for influence, benefit and impact, within and beyond postsecondary institutions, by supporting research and related activities and tools that facilitate co-creating and exchanging research knowledge.
Scaling Up Social Infrastructure (SUSI) is a partnership development project to develop pathways for social infrastructure policy, provision and care, that ensure adequate supply of social infrastructure among growing and changing communities in BC's lower mainland and southern Vancouver Island.
SUSI involves research and community engaged practices being co-constructed with health authorities, municipalities, regional government, grassroots and advocacy organizations, and architecture and design companies. While the term 'social infrastructure' is not defined specifically in policy or legislation, it is used to refer to places, spaces and ways that bring people together to support well-being in communities. Social infrastructure is a necessary element of a complete community which can be gauged and understood to better meet people's needs, enhance health and well-being in daily life, improve social function and our ability to implement community visions.
This project comes together at a time of intersecting crises and changes and opportunities related to social infrastructure. The work is organized into sandboxes鈥攄atabases, performance measures, and case studies. These are being built as a means to understand adequacy in multipurpose social infrastructure including parks and greenspaces, childcare, and community centres. These sandboxes allow participants to reach outside the normal bounds of professional practice, and in particular to reach for anti-racist and Indigenous reconciliation approaches to scale social infrastructure.
