Celebrating Year Two of the Intersectional Stigma of Place-Based Ageing (ISPA) Project

Today marks the 2nd year Anniversary of the Intersectional Stigma of Place-Based Ageing (ISPA) Project, an ambitious 5-year participatory mixed-method study that explores and understands how the stigma attached to where people live can intersect with experiences of disability and ageing.

The ISPA project celebrated its second year on Scottish Housing Day by exploring the key activities around ‘Homes for Life’ and how we centralise housing solutions to tackle stigma linked to age, disability and place. Thinking about how the project supports ‘Homes for Life’ is a good way of understanding what we need to do to future-proof and normalise inclusive, accessible, and flexible design into our homes and built environments.

In a new Housing LIN guest blog, Professor Vikki McCall from the University of Stirling delves deeper into these themes, while also highlighting the five reports published to coincide with this anniversary, and featured below:

• Year 2 Summary report ‘(ISPA) Project - Celebrating Year 2
  This report gives you a roundup of activities we have seen in Year 2 of the project, from its successes and data collection to publications and ongoing networking.
   
• Mapping age and disability discrimination
  In the second year of the ISPA Project, the quantitative analysis within Work Package 1 (WP1) has focused on analysis of UK-based survey data, including the UK Household Longitudinal Study (UKHLS or Understanding Society) and the Scottish Household Survey (SHS). This report showcases some of their findings across the UK and their results from the regression analysis using UK Data.
   
• Nurturing Inclusion: A Good Practice Case Study from Stirling Health and Care Village
  This reflective piece examines why it is so important to ensure inclusion of disabled people within outdoor as well as indoor spaces.
   
• Reflections from the ISPA researchers at the Summit for Persons with Disabilities
  In this report, Dr Dianne Theakstone reflects on the ISPA team's experience of attending the this Summit at the Scottish Parliament to celebrate people living with disabilities. It reflects on agency and language, 'being in the room where it happens', that housing was missing as a key theme of the summit, and includes six key take-away points from the summit discussion.
   
• Discrimination by Design: A Thinkpiece from the expert roundtable on disability and design
  On 13th November 2023, the ISPA Project hosted a roundtable discussion to address a vital question: ‘Do we discriminate by design?’. The discussion ranged from design and development to repairs and maintenance, with examinations of real-life case studies from experts by experience and disability law specialists.