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‘Life Chances’ is a co-produced research project exploring life on a low income for families with children, and the regulatory systems they encounter in their everyday lives. The project was co-designed by academics from Bristol and Cardiff Universities, artists Close and Remote, and two community organisations: Single Parent Action Network in Bristol and South Riverside Community Development Centre in Cardiff. The project also aimed to co-produce the research with community participants in both areas. Data was collected through 11 workshops in each location, a joint visit to Chepstow castle and two workshops with both groups together, between December 2015 and June 2016. In addition, 13 individual interviews were undertaken by the Research Associate between January and May 2016. An evaluation session with both groups also took place in July 2016. The data stored are from workshops and interviews undertaken between December 2015 and November 2016.

This project is part of the Productive Margins: Regulating for Engagement programme, and concerns concerns life on a low income for families with children in two urban areas in England and Wales. Using creative methods, it involved collaboration between academics, two community organisations and artists.