Box JS11

Scope and Contents Handwritten and typed notes for lectures and talks by John Spencer on the Bristol Social Project. Includes: Social Problems on New Housing Estates [talk to the Scottish Council of Social Service Conference, 1955]; The Problem of Neighbourhood in A Bristol Housing Estate [talk to the Society of Housing Managers' Regional Conference, 1958]; Social Workers and the Family on a Bristol Housing Estate [talk to the Hospital Almoners' AGM]; Some Problems and Methods of an Action-Research Project in...

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Spencer was appointed Director of the Bristol Social Project on leaving LSE in 1953. This was an action research project funded by the Carnegie Trust and sponsored by the University of Bristol concerned mainly with the problems of the family and urban sociology, and used the methods of community organisation and group work. The project ran until 1961.

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Spencer was appointed Director of the Bristol Social Project on leaving LSE in 1953. This was an action research project funded by the Carnegie Trust and sponsored by the University of Bristol concerned mainly with the problems of the family and urban sociology, and used the methods of community organisation and group work. The project ran until 1961.

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Printed material from local housing departments relating to the Rochester and Longbenton estates. Includes: Copy plan of modernisation of Rochester dwellings; black and white photographs of the Rochester Estate; outlines of costs and rents.

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Meeting notes and draft questionnaires.

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Spencer was appointed Director of the Bristol Social Project on leaving LSE in 1953. This was an action research project funded by the Carnegie Trust and sponsored by the University of Bristol concerned mainly with the problems of the family and urban sociology, and used the methods of community organisation and group work. The project ran until 1961.

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Typed transcript of meeting with the clergy of Southmead and Lockleaze. Also includes a memorandum outlining the various measures taken to set up a churches group associated with the Manchester and Salford Council of Social Services.

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Constitution; record of observations

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Typed notes and brief transcript of meeting of the council.

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Typed report on a study camp organised by the Bristol Social Project concerned with the problems presented by a new housing area.