Communities

Scope and Contents Publications: Handbook of Information for the use of Social Workers, Manchester and Salford Council of Social Service (1952); The Place of Psychology in Social Work, Case Conference (1956); National Association for Mental Health Pilot Survey of Adoption Cases (1953); Some Medical Problems as they affect Adoption Practice (1956); Child Adoption (1954); Reports of the Standing Conference of Societies Registered for Adoption (1953, 1955, 1957); Joint UN/WHO Meeting of...

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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.

Scope and Contents Published material: The Institute of Housing Managers, Scottish Branch, conference proceedings (1968-1970); Glasgow Adventure Playgrounds Association, issue 1 (1968); Occassional Bulletin issued by the Co-operative Permanent Building Society (1970); The Edinburgh University Settlement Association, annual report 1965-1966; Bristol Industrial Therapy Housing Association Ltd, annual report 1975; Housing and Social Work: The interim report of the Morris Committee on links between housing and...

Scope and Contents The lecture explores how schools could, and should, benefit the whole community by giving pupils a happy, clean environment which serves as a model for what the home should be, and by giving them the knowledge and skills in order to work towards solving practical and social problems in their communities. He illustrates this point with detailed descriptions of the Rachel MacMillan Nursery School in Deptford, London, and the Training School for Village Teachers at Chapra, Bengal....

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Papers relating to Spencer's time at the University of Bristol and as Director of the Bristol Social Project funded by the Carnegie Trust. Includes research material, teaching material, conference and committee papers.

Scope and Contents Reference material relating to housing, communities, town planning, and homelessness.Journal articles and reprints: A housing project wends it's weary way Canadian Public Administration Journal.Photocopies and typescripts: Development of indigenous leadership in an urban area (1954); Social Planning Council of Toronto: A statement of housing and urban renewal; The Lorado Taft lecture: Urbanisation in the middle and late 1960s (1964); Sperry...