Democratic research: Setting up a research commons for a qualitative, comparative, longitudinal interview study during the COVID-19 pandemic

Zimmermann, Bettina; Wagenaar, Hendrik; Kieslich, Katharina; Prainsack, Barbara; Meyers, Gert; Buyx, Alena; El-Sayed, Seliem; Fiske, Amelia; Galasso, Ilaria; Geiger, Susi; Hangel, Nora; Horn, Ruth; Johnson, Stephanie; Kuiper, Janneke; Lucivero, Federica; McLennan, Stuart; Pot, Mirjam; Radhuber, Isabella M.; Samuel, Gabrielle; Sharon, Tamar; Siffels, Lotje; Hoyweghen, Ine Van; Awad, Sula; Bourgeron, Théo; Eichinger, Johanna; Gaille, Marie; Haddad, Christian; Hayes, Sarah; Hoffman, Andrew R.; Jasser, Marie; Kenens, Joke; Lanzing, Marjolein; Libert, Sébastien; Lievevrouw, Elisa; Marelli, Luca; Ongolly, Fernandos; Phillips, Amicia; Pinel, Clémence; Riesinger, Katharina; Roberts, Stephen; Saxinger, Gertrude; Schlögl, Lukas; Schönweitz, Franziska; Sierawska, Anna; Spahl, Wanda; Stendahl, Emma; Vanstreels, Siemen; Vidolov, Simeon; Weiss, Elias

doi:10.1016/j.ssmqr.2022.100158

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“…The SolPan consortium formed in March 2020 and led by Barbara Prainsack, Katharina Kieslich and Wanda Spahl, University of Vienna, conducted a series of longitudinal in-depth qualitative interviews in nine European countries (see Zimmermann et al, 2022 ). The aim was to explore how and why people responded to COVID-19 and ensuing containment measures, such as school closures and reopenings.…”

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Inequalities in the Challenges Affecting Children and their Families during COVID-19 with School Closures and Reopenings: A Qualitative Study

Galasso

Watts

2022

Public Health Ethics

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School closure is one of the most debated measures undertaken to contain the spread of the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. The pandemic has devastating health and socio-economic effects and must be contained, but schools play a vital role in present and future well-being, capabilities and health of children. We examine the detrimental consequences of both the closure and reopening of schools, by focusing on inequalities in the challenges affecting children and their families. This paper is grounded on Irish and Italian data from a multi-national longitudinal qualitative interview study. Research participants articulated a variety of issues and challenges that highlight inequalities in access to education during school closures, in the supportiveness of home setting, and in school preparedness to reopen, often mirroring or exacerbating pre-existing inequalities. The reported unequal lived experiences indicate that some harms are actionable, and already suggest some potential harm mitigation strategies. We conclude by advocating for enhanced public consultation to help mitigate the consequences of public dilemmas in general, and to help detect and tackle inadequacies and inequalities for school children through and beyond the pandemic, by learning from the experience of the concerned actors.

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Inequalities in the Challenges Affecting Children and their Families during COVID-19 with School Closures and Reopenings: A Qualitative Study

Galasso

Watts

2022

Public Health Ethics

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“…Additionally, our study provides ground for calls to offer a more integrated disciplinary approach that links the humanities and social sciences (Whitehead et al 2016). The study illustrates what such an integrated disciplinary approach can look like and underlines the fruits that transdisciplinary and transboundary research collaboration can carry (Zimmermann et al 2022).…”

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“…This publication has been made possible by the joint work of the Solidarity in Times of a Pandemic (SolPan) research commons, a large, multidisciplinary research consortium set up at the beginning of the pandemic to explore people's experiences (Zimmermann et al 2022). SolPan is a large-scale qualitative comparative research study comprising interviews with residents from nine European countries (Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, The Netherlands, German-speaking Switzerland and the UK) (Wagenaar et al 2022).…”

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Solidarity during the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from a nine-country interview study in Europe

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Calls for solidarity have been an ubiquitous feature in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, we know little about how people have thought of and practised solidarity in their everyday lives since the beginning of the pandemic. What role does solidarity play in people’s lives, how does it relate to COVID-19 public health measures and how has it changed in different phases of the pandemic? Situated within the medical humanities at the intersection of philosophy, bioethics, social sciences and policy studies, this article explores how the practice-based understanding of solidarity formulated by Prainsack and Buyx helps shed light on these questions. Drawing on 643 qualitative interviews carried out in two phases (April–May 2020 and October 2020) in nine European countries (Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, The Netherlands, German-speaking Switzerland and the UK), the data show that interpersonal acts of solidarity are important, but that they are not sustainable without consistent support at the institutional level. As the pandemic progressed, respondents expressed a longing for more institutionalised forms of solidarity. We argue that the medical humanities have much to gain from directing their attention to individual health issues, and to collective experiences of health or illness. The analysis of experiences through a collective lens such as solidarity offers unique insights to understandings of the individual and the collective. We propose three essential advances for research in the medical humanities that can help uncover collective experiences of disease and health crises: (1) an empirical and practice-oriented approach alongside more normative approaches; (2) the confidence to make recommendations for practice and policymaking and (3) the pursuit of cross-national and multidisciplinary research collaborations.

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“…Issues in relation to science that repeatedly emerged from the data concerned positions on COVID-19 vaccination, media communication, and government and science interactions. We followed a constructivist grounded theory approach ( Bryant and Charmaz, 2012 ) that has been adapted for large-scale qualitative comparative research ( Zimmermann et al, 2022 ). All interviews were coded using an inductively generated Master Coding Scheme developed by the SolPan(+) consortium data analysis group.…”

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Performing publics of science in the COVID-19 pandemic: A qualitative study in Austria, Bolivia, Germany, Italy, Mexico, and Portugal

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Fiske

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Research about science and publics in the COVID-19 pandemic often focuses on public trust and on identifying and correcting public attitudes. Drawing on qualitative interviews with 209 residents in six countries—Austria, Bolivia, Germany, Italy, Mexico, and Portugal—this article uses the concept of performativity to explore how participants understand, and relate to science, in the COVID-19 context. By performativity, we mean the ways by which participants understand themselves as particular sorts of publics through identification with, and differentiation from, various other actors in matters that are perceived as controversies surrounding science: COVID-19 vaccination, media communication of science, and the interactions between governments and scientists. The criteria used to construct the similarities and differences among publics were heterogeneous and fluid, showing how epistemic beliefs about the nature of, and trust in, scientific knowledge are intermingled with social and cultural memberships embedded in specific contexts and across disparate places.

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Democratic research: Setting up a research commons for a qualitative, comparative, longitudinal interview study during the COVID-19 pandemic

Cited by 12 publications

References 18 publications

Inequalities in the Challenges Affecting Children and their Families during COVID-19 with School Closures and Reopenings: A Qualitative Study

Inequalities in the Challenges Affecting Children and their Families during COVID-19 with School Closures and Reopenings: A Qualitative Study

Solidarity during the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from a nine-country interview study in Europe

Performing publics of science in the COVID-19 pandemic: A qualitative study in Austria, Bolivia, Germany, Italy, Mexico, and Portugal

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