Other Research

'Releasing Resilience and Building Networks of Resilience' - Report

The project aimed to learn about the impacts of COVID-19 and the lockdowns in marginalised communities, and to organise, empower and build networks of resilience with some of the migrant communities most marginalised by COVID-19 – those who are without status, including those with no recourse to public funds and those who are in the asylum process or who have been refused asylum.

Migrant Voice, RAPAR and Kanlungan Filipino Consortium.

Shifting contours of care: How UK Indian diasporas give and receive care in the time of COVID-19

The significant UK-based Indian population is confronting new trauma. Even as they struggle to cope with the socio-economic and health aftermaths of the pandemic in the UK, they are mobilising to send money and arrange for the purchase of medical supplies and support for their families, friends and communities in India.

Blog by Kavita Datta, Saliha Majeed-Hajaj, Laura Hammond, Connecting during COVID-19 project

Anyone At Home

The stories and images in Anyone At Home expose the very close personal relationship we have with our homes.

Looking in: each story reflects someone’s world as a moment in time (and Covid). Looking out: are the stories that situate ‘the home’ across our wider society and culture. 

Anyone At Home is entirely self-funded and not aligned to any institution. Dr Nuala Rooney has been researching design and ‘the home’ as lived experience since 2017

Pandemic and Beyond

AHRC funded research across the UK on Public Health, Community and Society during the pandemic. Articles on media communication and public health messaging; health care and managing COVID-19; society, community and connection.

AHRC

Coronavirus and depression in adults, Great Britain: January to March 2021

Analysis of the proportion of the British adult population experiencing some form of depression in early 2021, by age, sex and other characteristics. Includes comparisons with 2020 and pre-pandemic estimates.

Office for National Statistics, May 2021

Social learning about COVID-19

Social learning about COVID-19 vulnerability and social distancing in high density populations: the case of UK urban dwelling Bangladeshis. See our sister project, CoronAwareness, which seeks to prevent Covid-related illness in ethnic minority communities with a strong oral tradition through a series of informational videos in minority languages.

Kings College, London

International study into impact of COVID-19 on minority communities

Roehampton sociologists team up with universities in Germany and Milan to explore links between the pandemic, trust in government and sense of belonging in minority communities

University of Roehampton, March 16, 2021

Social Distance, Digital Congregation: British Ritual Innovation Under Covid-19

A research project examining how religious communities have adapted to the COVID-19 pandemic and the restrictions it has imposed.

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Manchester Metropolitan University

COV19: Chronicles from the Margins

Chronicles from the Margins investigates how diverse migrant groups (asylum-seekers, refugees, migrant workers and undocumented people) are responding to COVID-19.

Open University and International Institute of Social Studies, The Hague. 2020 

Covid Realities

Covid Realities is a research project looking into the experiences of parents and carers on low incomes during the pandemic.

Universities of York and Birmingham, working in partnership with the Child Poverty Action Group.

DAHLIA-19: Domestic abuse: Harnessing Learning Internationally under Covid-19

An international research study exploring domestic abuse policy and practice for survivors, children and perpetrators during the Covid-19 pandemic. The research is being undertaken in four countries: the UK, Australia, Ireland and South Africa and is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).

Connect Centre for International Research on Interpersonal Violence and Harm

Sharing a Home under Lockdown

This LSE London blog explores the experiences of Londoners who have shared their homes with others during the pandemic, including those renting with partners or flat mates; or living with parents. It looks at the challenges of non-homeowners using the shared home as a workspace, household relationships under lockdown and people’s aspirations for their future housing situations.

Kath Scanlon, Fanny Blanc and Beth Crankshaw (16.7.20). LSE London

‘Stay safe, stay home’?: Shifting geographies of home and care under coronavirus

This Transforming Society blog explores how the pandemic and resulting directive to ‘stay home’ reveals stark inequalities in terms of access to housing, care, technology and resources – inequalities which mean that the home may be a place of insecurity and fear rather than safety.

Sophie Bowlby & Eleanor Jupp (2020) Transforming Society

Go home: Coronavirus, national protection, and the lost path towards home

This blog interrogates how people from East Asian communities have been subject to racism and hostility during the pandemic, in which the demand to ‘go home’ is bound up with discourses of exclusion and abandonment.

Yunpeng (Dery) Du (2020), Disruptive Inequalities 

‘Confronting the Household’

A series of blog posts critically reflecting on meanings of home and household in the context of COVID-19 – including experiences of migration, displacement, racism, homelessness and poverty that challenge assumptions of the household as a site of safety and belonging.

Feminist Review Collective (Kiran Grewal, Clare Hemmings, Leticia Sabsay and Alyosxa Tudor), 2020

Households, bubbles and hugging grandparents: Caring and lockdown rules during COVID-19

The continuing focus in the lockdown regulations has been on households as autonomous, safe, adequate and secure. This overlooks the interdependency of human life, gendered aspects of caring and the inequalities of housing and living conditions.

Fem Leg Stud  28,  329–339 (J. Gulland), 2020

*Above image credited to the National Portrait Gallery – Hold Still

Home, inequalities and care: perspectives from within a pandemic

This commentary reflects on how the coronavirus has brought experiences of ‘home’ into public, policy and media debates. We suggest it has also revealed the significance of links between housing and home on the one hand and relationships and practices of care in the other.

International Journal of Housing Policy, (Bowlby, S. & Eleanor Jupp),  2020