{"id":533,"date":"2023-03-06T14:30:25","date_gmt":"2023-03-06T14:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/transnational-families\/?p=533"},"modified":"2023-03-06T14:40:47","modified_gmt":"2023-03-06T14:40:47","slug":"its-good-to-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/transnational-families\/its-good-to-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Good to Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">As the classic 1988 British Telecom ad says \u201cIt\u2019s good to talk\u201d. And it was <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">very <\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">good to talk about the Carewell Project with not only the University of Reading research team and Community Researchers but with the staff and trustees of the two organisations (Reading Community Learning Centre &amp; Refugee Support Group) who were responsible for recruiting the Community Researchers and with the local representatives of policy and decision-making organisations: Reading Borough Council and Wokingham Council. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Over an informal lunch, there was animated discussion tempered by the sober realities of the experiences of those families living with care responsibilities across countries and across cultures and the challenges the Community Researchers had encountered in retrieving those stories. The feed-back was overwhelmingly positive: \u201cI could have discussed this all day\u201d, \u201cmy officers could never have obtained this kind of information\u201d (a Council Lead on Housing, Neighbourhood &amp; Communities). There was also a feeling that such meetings were vital &#8211; time and space to discuss the underlying themes and challenges rather than only \u201cthe process\u201d as well as truly enabling interaction between the academic, voluntary, statutory and professional sectors.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-531\" src=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/transnational-families\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/207\/2023\/03\/IMG-20230207-WA0013-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/transnational-families\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/207\/2023\/03\/IMG-20230207-WA0013-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/transnational-families\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/207\/2023\/03\/IMG-20230207-WA0013-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/transnational-families\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/207\/2023\/03\/IMG-20230207-WA0013-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/transnational-families\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/207\/2023\/03\/IMG-20230207-WA0013-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/transnational-families\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/207\/2023\/03\/IMG-20230207-WA0013.jpg 2016w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-530\" src=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/transnational-families\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/207\/2023\/03\/IMG-20230207-WA0017-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/transnational-families\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/207\/2023\/03\/IMG-20230207-WA0017-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/transnational-families\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/207\/2023\/03\/IMG-20230207-WA0017-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/transnational-families\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/207\/2023\/03\/IMG-20230207-WA0017-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/transnational-families\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/207\/2023\/03\/IMG-20230207-WA0017.jpg 1512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the classic 1988 British Telecom ad says \u201cIt\u2019s good to talk\u201d. 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