Timescapes
An ESRC Qualitative Longitudinal Initiative
Timescapes was the first major qualitative longitudinal study to be funded in the UK, and explored how personal and family relationships develop and change over time. The original website for the project has been archived in the UK Web Archive:
Timescapes ran for five years from February 2007, and was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council under the ESRC Changing Lives and Times initiative. The broad aim was to scale up and promote Qualitative Longitudinal (QL) research, create an archive of data for preservation and sharing, and to demonstrate and encourage re-use of the resource. We achieved these aims through a network of empirical projects, the creation of an archive of QL data, a secondary analysis programme and a range of training and capacity building activities.
Timescapes Projects
The Timescapes projects explored how personal and family relationships develop and change over time.Our researchers focused on relationships with significant others: parents, grandparents, siblings, children, partners, friends and lovers. We investigated how these relationships affected people's well-being and life chances, and considered the implications for the long term resourcing of families.
Siblings and Friends
The Changing Nature of Children's Lateral Relationships
Young Lives and Times
The Crafting of Young People's Relationships and Identities over Time
The Dynamics of Motherhood
An Intergenerational Project
Masculinities, Identities and Risk
Transition in the Lives of Men as Fathers
Work and Family Lives
The Changing Experiences of Young Families
Intergenerational Exchange
Grandparents, Social Exclusion and Health
The Oldest Generation
Events, Relationships and Identities in Later Life
Making the Long View
Sharing the inventing adulthoods project
