COVID-19

Perspectives blogs

In our latest COVID-19 Perspectives blog, Claire McIvor, Kirsty Crossley, and Bridget Lockyer detail Born in Bradford’s response to the pandemic, explore key findings, and reflect on what can be learnt from the experiences of the BiB families. The invisible impact of COVID-19 Throughout the pandemic, Born in Bradford (BiB) has worked with communities and […]

In the second part of our mini-series looking at the work of the Health and Employment After Fifty (HEAF) Study, Stefania D’Angelo sets out the changes to the delivery, focus and findings of the study surveys amidst the COVID-19 pandemic and national restrictions. The Health and Employment After Fifty (HEAF) cohort was established in 2013 to assess the health […]

In May 2020, I highlighted the need to harness the power of longitudinal population studies to help understand the immediate and long-term impacts of the pandemic on individuals, families and communities and called for the creation of a new national birth cohort study to ensure that valuable data from a generation born during a global pandemic is […]

This is the final blog in a 3-part series by CLOSER Partner Study, Understanding Society, exploring their response and survey results to the COVID-19 pandemic. Kelly Reeve, Research Assistant, looks at what coronavirus restrictions meant for grandparents’ relationships with grandchildren, and for parents who don’t live with their children, during the first UK lockdown. During […]

This is the second blog in a 3-part series by CLOSER Partner Study, Understanding Society, exploring their response and survey results to the COVID-19 pandemic. Chris Coates, Research Impact and Project Manager at Understanding Society, takes a look at the implications from early research findings from their COVID-19 survey launched last year. Many of us […]