Using Social Wellbeing to Inform Regeneration Strategies in a Former Colliery Town in Northern England

Abstract

This chapter examines the wellbeing of residents in a former mining community in North East England. It illustrates how a social wellbeing framework can be used to investigate the psychological, relational and material dimensions of wellbeing to offer a complex picture of how wellbeing is experienced by local people and structured by various social processes. Interview data illustrates how wellbeing emerges through dense social networks and which offers insights into policies and practice that can promote better wellbeing for local communities such as those in the North East of England.