Records of the study- Homes in High Flats, c1960s, academic study, Department of Social and Economic Research, University of Glasgow, Scotland

• Questionnaires relating to study of domestic housing in multi-storey flats, 1967-1968;
• Schedules of the study without contact sheets, 1968;
• Pilot study materials, 1967-1968;
• Reference files relating to High Flat Study, 1952-1969;
• Correspondence and reports, 1964-1970;
• Computer punch cards for High Flat Study, 1966-1970;
• Collection of books used in study, 1967-1969;
• Drawings and Photographs showing high rise schemes, c1960s;
• Tables and coding sheets for samples, c1960s.

Agnes Pearl Jephcott (1900-1980) was a pioneer of social research who worked as a researcher in the University of Glasgow's Department of Economic and Social Research during the 1960s. During this time, Jephcott investigated the leisure interests of young people. She published the results in " Time of One's Own " in 1967, by which time she had begun work on a three-year investigation into high-rise living in the city. Her findings, co-authored with Hilary Robinson, were published in 1971 in " Homes in High Flats", and contained some of the earliest misgivings about multi-storey homes and the lack of services and amenities which had been made available to residents. She left Glasgow in 1970, but continued to research and write on social issues.

The study Homes in High Flats was an occasional paper published by the Department of Social and Economic Research. It can be found in the main library catalogue of the University of Glasgow, please see http://encore.lib.gla.ac.uk/iii/encore/record/C__Rb1098280 .

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Department of Social and Economic Research : 1981 : ACCN 296

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