2.6g What is the relationship between volunteering/civic engagement and community cohesion?
Background
Across our Volunteering and Tackling Loneliness policy work, we are tackling barriers to participation in volunteering and other forms of social action, including supporting civil society to prepare for, and respond to emergencies. Our aim is to reduce loneliness and isolation by improving social connections and mental health literacy amongst those most at risk, in the places most underserved.
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Related UKRI funded projects
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The social, historical, cultural and democratic context of civic engagement: imagining different communities and making them happen.
Our research studies how communities connect people, both today and in the past. These connections take many forms, but often include people coming together to seek change and pursue a different future. We are interested...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: University of Edinburgh
Why might this be relevant?
The project explores the relationship between volunteering/civic engagement and community cohesion through historical and cultural contexts.
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Resilient, Mutual self-help in cities of growing diversity
In cities of growing diversity a complex and dynamic set of variables have led to new patterns of settlement and community dynamics that pose challenges to civic engagement and call into the question the feasibility of m...
Funded by: AHRC
Lead research organisation: University of Birmingham
Why might this be relevant?
The project discusses mutual self-help models in diverse cities and their impact on community resilience, partially addressing the question.
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WELLbeing & COMMunity Engagement (WELLCOMM): evidence from observational studies & impact for social prescribing
There is strong theoretical literature on why community engagement is crucial to the survival and thrival of our species, and emerging data from intervention studies on the benefits specifically for wellbeing. But there ...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON
Why might this be relevant?
The project focuses on community engagement and its impact on wellbeing, partially relevant to the question on volunteering/civic engagement and community cohesion.