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Introducing The Centre for Transformative Change: Educational and Life Transitions (TCELT) blog
by Professor Divya Jindal-Snape
There is a growing body of activity focused on collecting and disseminating the early experiences of COVID-19 and its wide-ranging impact on communities of research, policy and practice. The Centre for Transformative Change: Educational and Life Transitions (TCELT) blog
The social life of self-harm, in lockdown
by Liv*
There has been much written recently on the effects of the lock down on mental health. How do people react to being alone? How does isolation reinforce previous vulnerabilities, and give rise to the perceived need to reinvent one’s everyday life
Locking Down or Breaking Up: Newly Cohabitating Couples in the Time of Coronavirus
by Isabel Quattlebaum
The lockdown in the United Kingdom has changed relationships and dating drastically. Gone are the one night stands and the casual hook-ups, and budding relationships have either been put on hold or ramped up to warp-speed. Jenny Harries, the deputy
Stay-at-home measures and domestic violence amid the Covid-19 crisis
by Morena Tartari
Media attention has picked up on the risk of an increase in domestic violence in conditions of lockdown under the Covid-19 emergency. It is obvious that being confined to the home with an abusive partner is likely to have dramatic
The Children (Scotland) Bill – Justice Committee’s Recommendations Stage 1
by Fiona Morrison and Kay Tisdall
The Justice Committee of the Scottish Parliament have just issued their Stage 1 Report on the Children (Scotland) Bill. The Bill will reform family law in Scotland, and particularly promises to improve the participation rights of children
Families and relationships amidst the Covid-19 pandemic: Call for blog submissions
COVID-19 is impacting on all aspects of family life and personal relationships, as well as on our formal and informal systems of social care. How are we ‘doing’ family life and practicing intimacies during lockdown? What are the consequence on our intergenerational relations –
Research with young environmental activists in the UK
by Dena Arya
Like many researchers, particularly those whose focus is empirical, my data collection was stopped in its tracks in the days leading up to lock down in the UK in March 2020. Along with my research grinding to a halt, so
COVID and ‘BIG QUAL’
by Lynn Jamieson, Emma Davidson, Rosalind Edwards, Susie Weller
It seems appropriate to review the possibilities of secondary analysis of data that has already been gathered by face-to-face techniques, as the current pandemic closes down many such forms of research. The substitution of