VIP-CLEAR
Voices in a pandemic: Children's lockdown experiences applied to recovery
About VIP-CLEAR
A UWE Bristol team has been awarded UKRI funding to study how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the learning, development, health and wellbeing of vulnerable, socially disadvantaged children in England.
Professor Lindsey McEwen, Director of the Centre for Water, Communities and Resilience (College of Arts, Technology and Environment, UWE Bristol), is leading an interdisciplinary team to understand how children whose families live with multiple uncertainties, stresses and vulnerabilities are more susceptible to COVID-19 impacts as the result of deep societal inequalities.
With funding of £294,402, the team will gather and critically evaluate children’s worldviews, perceptions and experiences during the COVID-19 response phases, draw learning from this to support them through recovery phases, and build anticipatory resilient capital from their experiences in preparation for future social shocks, including pandemics. Working with multicultural schools and nurseries in Bristol and national partner, Action for Children, the project will employ child-focused, creative methodologies that interweave socially engaged arts practice with social science to capture children’s voices and views.
Outputs will include an evidence-base to inform policy and practice around adaptation to future social and ecological shocks, along with a unique archive of children’s voices to inform recovery strategies, a primary school book to support children and professionals, and research-informed policy guidance.
Project team
The project team includes:
- Associate Professor Toity Deave (College of Health, Science and Society)
- Dr Sara Williams (College of Arts, Technology and Environment)
- Dr Deepak Gopinath (College of Arts, Technology and Environment)
- Dr Laura Fogg-Rogers (College of Arts, Technology and Environment)
- Dr Laura Hobbs (College of Health, Science and Society)
- Dr Verity Jones (College of Arts, Technology and Environment)
- Dr Amanda Webber (College of Arts, Technology and Environment)
co-working with socially engaged artist, Luci Gorell Barnes.
Additional information
Find out more about the VIP-CLEAR project.
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