As researchers have begun to adapt to the continuing presence of COVID-19, they have also begun to reflect more deeply on fundamental research issues and assumptions. Researchers around the world have responded in diverse, thoughtful and creative ways from adapting data collection methods to fostering researcher and community resilience, while also attending to often urgent needs for care.
This book, part of a series of three Rapid Responses, connects themes of care and resilience, addressing their common concern with wellbeing. It has three parts: addressing researchers wellbeing, considering participants wellbeing, and exploring care and resilience as a shared and mutually entangled concern.
The other two books focus on Response and Reassessment, and Creativity and Ethics. Together they help academic, applied and practitioner-researchers worldwide adapt to the new challenges COVID-19 brings.
Introduction ~ Su-ming Khoo and Helen Kara
Part 1: Researcher Care and Resilience
Do the best you can researcher safety in a pandemic ~ Petra Boynton
I dont know what Id have done without this project: Oral History as a
Social and Therapeutic Intervention During COVID-19 ~ Stephanie J Snow
Part 2: Participant Care and Resilience
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Research in Public Health and the Health
Professions Education during a Pandemic and Societal Anti-Racism Protests ~
Rachel Yoho
Methodological and Ethical Considerations in the study on Childrens Everyday
Lives under COVID-19 in Three African Countries: Ghana, Nigeria and South
Africa ~ Getrude Dadirai Gwenzi, Uchechi Shirley Anaduaka, Stephen Baffour
Adjei, Ayomide Oladosu and Sarah Tara Sam
Exploring young peoples experiences of growing up under COVID-19 ~ Leanne
Monchuk, Laurie Day, Sara Rizzo and Barry Percy-Smith
Ensuring no voices are left behind: the use of digital storytelling and
diary-writing in times of crisis ~ Nicola Jones, Kate Pincock, Bassam Abu
Hamad, Agnieszka Malachowska, Sally Youssef, Sarah Alheiwidi and Kifah Bani
Odeh
Using ICT to research maternal, newborn and child health during the COVID-19
pandemic in Nigeria ~ Osasuyi Dirisu, Godwin Akaba and Eseoghene Adams
Part 3: Shared Care and Resilience
Piling on the pressure? Negotiating burden/benefit dynamics in social
research during times of crisis ~ Oliver Hooper, Rachel Sandford and Thomas
Quarmby
Keep Talking: Messy Research in Times of Lockdown ~ Nicola Gratton, Ryan Fox
and Teri Elder
Occupational Being during the COVID-19 Pandemic ~ Danielle Hitch, Emily
Adcock, Emma Cramer and Taylah Sayers
Prioritising inclusion, ethical practice and accessibility during a global
pandemic: the role of the researcher in mindful decision-making ~ Emma
Partlow
Conclusion~ Helen Kara and Su-ming Khoo
Helen Kara has been an independent researcher since 1999 and specialises in creative research methods and ethics.
Su-Ming Khoo is Lecturer in Political Science and Sociology, and leads the Environment, Development and Sustainability and Socio-Economic Impact Research Clusters at the National Univesity of Ireland Galway.