Families and Community Transitions under Covid (FACT-Covid)

This research will investigate the challenges experienced by families with children during the COVID-19 pandemic. It will explore both how individuals understand and respond to public health measures, and how these are negotiated within the family. As such, it will unpack both inter- and intra-household differences, examining how position in the household (such as that determined by gender and generation) and access to various forms of capital (such as that determined by socio-economic class), shape the ways and means through which individuals can respond to challenges in the context of a public health crisis. The study will follow participants over a year, thus examining the long-term consequences of the pandemic and the potentially changing reactions of families to public health measures. The project is part of an international network of projects, in ten different countries, led by us, all using the same methods and addressing the same questions.