WISERD

All workpackages are reviewing their capacity to address Covid19 within the WISERD research programme. The following work is currently being taken forward: (i) we will undertake an Email survey of academics across the Children's Worlds network (an international study of 41 countries measuring subjective children's wellbeing, rights and participation). This aims to ascertain their views about the impact on children, how they have been positioned by decision makers and their role/influence in decision making in their respective countries. (ii) we will undertake follow-up interviews with 10-12 families in South Wales who we originally interviewed in the previous Centre's work on intergenerational transmission of civil society across three generations; children, parents and grandparents. These follow up interviews are to consider how families have responded and adapted to COVID-19 in relation to their family relationships and attitudes towards civil society. (iii) we are designing a new sweep of the WISERDEducation Multi Cohort Study (WMCS) that will collect data from our existing cohort of young people (c1,200) from across 13 secondary schools in Wales (two cohorts, one in Year 8 and one in Year 10). These questions will be about how they are managing during the lockdown, what their daily activities look like, what home learning looks like, how they view their rights during the lockdown, and activities and attitudes towards civil society following the pandemic. (iv) we will apply accessibility models in relation to health patterns in Wales. A study looking at spatial inequalities in access to residential care homes in Wales based on Care Inspectorate Wales data will be followed up with a more detailed case study in the area covered by the Regional Partnership Board in West Wales with colleagues in Ceredigion and Carmarthenshire. (v) our research on human rights and the mixed economies of welfare is being re-focused to look across the 4 UK jurisdictions at how the legal and policy context related to third sector adult social care provision has changed in light of corona virus and what has been the reaction of third sector care providers and what impact have the changes had on their work. (vi) our planned work on civil society, and placed based strategies for sustainable development is being re-focused on the role of City Regions and place based polices in supporting and renewing local economies in the aftermath of Covid 19. (vii) our work on platforms and capabilities is being refocused to explore the impact of economic and social changes arising from Covid19 on Foundational Sectors (including food delivery and social care).