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Covid Realities
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Covid Realities ran from April 2020 to June 2022. Our new project is Changing
Realities
Read our book,
A Year Like No Other

Out now

We worked alongside parents and carers to share experiences of life on a
low-income during Covid-19, developing ideas together for what needs to change
and why...

...like this diary entry from Fiona T
Fiona T
04 January 2022
Today has been a really rough day - as was yesterday. Covid caught up with me
just after Christmas and I was quite unwell for a ...
😷 Covid-19
Utilities
Care
🧒 Children
🚧 Work
Cost of Living

Over 100 parents and carers from across the UK have completed online diaries and
responded to weekly video questions about life during a pandemic, with many of
the 2,500+ responses made publicly available through our rich, historical
archive.

Watch Cat asking one of our weekly video questions

We also collaborated with 13 other research projects, ran webinars and curated a
blog series about researching poverty in these new times

Here's Shirley and Caroline explaining the project

We also made zines together, met up (virtually) for 'big ideas groups', recorded
audio clips, and appeared in the national media and at high-profile events.

Listen to participants sharing their experiences

We were a collaboration of parents and carers from across the UK, researchers
from the Universities of York and Birmingham, Child Poverty Action Group and
several artists. We're so thankful to the Nuffield Foundation for funding this
research programme.


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🕰 Lockdown, rules, and social distancing 385🍳 Getting by 338🗳 Benefits 336🌦
Politics & stigma 267💸 Money + debt 258🌦 Mental health 226 Children's
wellbeing 184🍞 Food / food banks 181😷 Covid-19 168🧒 Children 147 Show all
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Covid Realities
is a collaboration between the Universities of York and Birmingham, and Child
Poverty Action Group. The project has been funded by the Nuffield Foundation but
the views on this site are those of the project team and not necessarily the
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