VIRTUAL EVENT: The value of collaboration between researchers of poverty and low income during COVID
23 March 2021, 1:00 pm–2:00 pm
This webinar will present some key themes from collaborative work, and reflect on potential policy recommendations and suggestions for change.
This event is free.
Event Information
Open to
- All
Availability
- Yes
Cost
- Free
Organiser
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Victoria Redclift
COVID-19 has changed the way researchers work, not only in terms of fieldwork, but also in terms of collaboration.
Underpinning the Covid Realities research programme is a commitment to ensuring that researchers adopt a sensitive and ethical approach to research with low-income communities during the pandemic.
The 'COVID-19 and low-income families: Researching together' Special Interest Group (SIG) is a unique collaboration that has presented an opportunity to re-tool existing funded research for these new times, and to ensure that the challenges of conducting research in a context of social distancing are collectively overcome.
This seminar will highlight several key themes emerging from the 'COVID-19 and low-income families: Researching together' SIG's work:
- the (in)adequacy and complexity of the social security system
- social isolation and mental health impacts, including gendered impact of care
- changing relationships – with family; friends; support services.
Working across 14 different research projects, including academics and researchers from the voluntary sector, these projects are taking a range of methodological approaches.
Speakers will explore the unique insights into our understanding of the experiences of families on a low income during COVID-19 by taking this mixed method, interdisciplinary approach.
Speakers
- Kayleigh Garthwaite, Birmingham Fellow at the University of Birmingham
- Fiona McHardy, Research and Information Manager at The Poverty Alliance
- Anna Tarrant, Associate Professor in Sociology and a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow at the University of Lincoln.
TCRU seminar series
The Thomas Coram Research Unit (TCRU) hosts a weekly seminar series, where invited speakers present work of relevance to the research interests of the unit.
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