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Underground tales, overground lives: negotiating a post-retirement identity

This is a small pilot project supported by the Ageing and Communication Technologies Partnership (ACT), a partnership funded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council Canada (SSHRC). The project trials a research design for understanding retirement identities by bringing together mobile methodologies and media methodologies. In particular, we are interested in the identities associated with a specific organisation: the London Underground. We explore this firstly through collecting data on embodied experiences of retirees return to their workplace through a ‘Hidden London’ tour of part of the disused London Underground network; and then through film-elicitation interviews using a reality TV programme, ‘The Tube: going underground’, broadcast in the UK in Spring 2016.

Much has been written about representations of workplaces and labour (particularly places/sites of drama - such as hospitals or the police) as there has about the curating of some workplaces as museums and tourist sites. So, while we know something about how the workplace is represented, mediated and consumed we know very little about how encounters with a re-produced workplace constitute post-work identities. This project seeks to produce a methodology for producing this knowledge in a larger project.

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Project timeframe

This research project commenced in March 2017 and will end in August 2017.

Project aims

Overall, the project aims to understand more about post-retirement identities through:

  • exploring the ways in which the transition to, and experiences of, retirement are supported by the memories, sounds, smells and rhythms of a workplace.
  • investigating responses to mediated versions of that workplace in order to create knowledge of the various positionings that may be part of negotiating a post-work identity especially with such a globally-branded public organisation.

Project findings and impact

This project is ongoing; output, findings and impact will be updated in due course.

Research team

Lesley Murray

 

Output

Partners

Professor Jayne Raisborough, Leeds-Beckett University

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