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Research During Covid-19
Helping you to continue with research.
We're still here to help
The Research Institutes understand that the Covid-19 pandemic has had a profound and lasting impact on all our lives, both professionally and personally. Everyone’s experience of has been unique. Each person’s needs will be very different.
During the lockdowns, the Research Institutes worked together to offer practical support, solutions and inspiration to help colleagues carry on with their research activities, no matter how little time they had available. This resulted in the creation of online resources, available below.
We remain committed to understanding what these needs are and how best we can address them. We will continue to support colleagues throughout the academic year 2021/2022. We also want to continue collecting stories about how research has been transformed by the experiences of the last year and a half, what new horizons have opened, what we have learned.
Webinar One: Researching During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Researching in and through Covid-19
In this webinar, we explored:
- What have been the challenges - and possible solutions - for research at the is time? What are we learning about new platforms, new methods, new kinds of partnership working?
- How is your research - content and/or practice – changing, perhaps in unforeseen but exciting ways? (e.g. what are we learning about lone scholarship and/or co-creation through remote working).
- What can we learn from those who have already had to think about doing research differently?
- And what are we learning that we want to take forward into the future, transforming our research cultures and practices at NU?
Introduction (Jennifer Richards) and the opening talk from Alison Atkinson Philips
Part two - Ben Elliott
Part three - Mariam Rezaei
Part four - Ika Willis
Q&A with all speakers
Webinar Two: Developing a Plan B
The HaSS Research Institutes and The School of History, Classics and Archaeology
If there is one thing the pandemic has taught us, it’s that when circumstances change, we need to be able to change our plans and adapt our thinking. Sometimes we need a Plan B.
Research projects are no different, and many, if not all of us have had to change the way we work for a whole host of reasons from being unable to travel or access an archive or research participants, or because time is in much shorter supply because of the demands of teaching, home schooling or looking after dependents.
We ran two linked webinars which brought people together to discuss how researchers have overcome some of the challenges and difficulties, as well as highlight how the pandemic has presented new opportunities and surprises that accompany a move towards a ‘Plan B’ and perhaps even changes to the way we research permanently. Please find the recordings of both sessions below.
Developing a Plan B, session one - 4th March, 2021
Developing a Plan B, session two - 11th March, 2021