This section of the website provides a more detailed description of the programme's different research and learning components and of our study areas.  The programme is divided into a number of different but inter-connecting research and learning components or themes.  Each of these are outlined briefly below but more detailed information on each can be found by clicking on the corresponding menu item on the left-hand side of this page.       

Community health and wellbeing survey and tracer study:  This involves face-to-face intervivews with over 6,000 local residents from across our 14 study areas.  It will be repeated four times over our planned ten-year programme.  The first survey was completed in August 2006, the second in August 2008, with further surveys in 2010 and 2012.  There will be a tracking study of respondents who move house between surveys and who will be followed up at their new addresses for the duration of the study.  This component also involves a number of focus groups following each survey to provide more detailed qualitative evidence on various issues or aspects of the survey.

Governance, participation and empowerment (GPE):  This involves studying community involvement and empowerment in different areas of the regeneration processes including the management and ownership of social housing, involvement in the planning and implementation of the major regeneration processes, and the ways in which communities are engaged in community planning and neighbourhood management.  

Understanding the wider context:  This component involves monitoring wider area changes and the changes relating to housing and health that are happening throughout Glasgow so that the changes found through the residential survey can be looked at in the context of wider trends.  It involves different elements which include:  looking at the historical and policy background within which community regeneration is taking place; investigating the understandings and expectations of policy-makers and practitioners; a quantitative element using routine data; neighbourhood audits which access housing and amenity quality across the study areas via observation and photos; and the development of a housing typology in order to examine the links between housing types and health status across the city.  

Community-based or nested studies:  This component allows for short-term 'nested studies' of specific initiatives aimed at improving particular aspects of communities to be carried out.  

Economic evaluation:  This involves the development and testing of a new approach to the economic evaluation of public health interventions, using the Capabilities approach.

Communications:  This component seeks to ensure that there is effective two-way communication between the GoWell team and its various stakeholders in community, practice, academic and policy arenas; and that the learning from GoWell is used throughout the duration of the programme as well as at the end.