The prevalence of many health conditions is higher amongst people under probation supervision than in the general population. Probation staff work in partnership with healthcare organisations to identify health needs and improve the health of people under supervision. During the pandemic, probation adopted an Exceptional Delivery Model, replacing most face-to-face supervision with remote supervision. Using…Continue Reading Covid-19 and Probation’s Health Related Practice
Category: Covid-19 Related Research
Navigating global collaborative research projects in times of Covid-19
The Covid-19 pandemic is presenting researchers with a range of challenges. One of these is how to successfully execute larger collaborative global research projects, such as an edited book, involving numerous researchers from various countries. During this brief talk, we will discuss some of these challenges that are likely to arise in such a context,…Continue Reading Navigating global collaborative research projects in times of Covid-19
Impact at the University of Lincoln; celebrating CoSS impact and looking to the future
To ask questions, and have full functionality and engagement with this presentation, please visit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1XwMk01PN4 The University of Lincoln has a proud history and ongoing commitment to purposeful research, and research which makes a difference regionally, nationally and internationally. Impact – or the provable benefits of research in the ‘real world’ – is central to…Continue Reading Impact at the University of Lincoln; celebrating CoSS impact and looking to the future
Gambling in COVID-19 Lockdown in the UK: Depression, Stress, and Anxiety
To combat the spread of COVID-19, the UK Government implemented a range of “lockdown” measures. Lockdown has necessarily changed the gambling habits of gamblers in the UK, and the impact of these measures on the mental health of gamblers is unknown. To understand the impact of lockdown on gamblers, in April 2020, after ~6 weeks…Continue Reading Gambling in COVID-19 Lockdown in the UK: Depression, Stress, and Anxiety
Following Young Fathers Further: The impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown on young fathers
Today, Following Young Fathers Further (FYFF) have announced the launch of two new briefing papers based on wave 1 of their research. As part of this short series FYFF present emergent findings of the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown on the parenting journeys and support needs of the seventeen young fathers they interviewed….Continue Reading Following Young Fathers Further: The impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown on young fathers
British Sleep Society: the COVID-19 pandemic response
The current pandemic caused by a novel coronavirus, named COVID-19, holds the entire world to ransom. A proportion of the infected patients becomes critically ill, with millions being infected and hundreds of thousands who have died so far. In some countries, national lockdown restrictions are being slowly lifted, but the World Health Organization (WHO) still…Continue Reading British Sleep Society: the COVID-19 pandemic response
COVID-19 and the Responsibility to Protect Rohingya Refugees
On 1st April 2020, the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect issued an atrocity alert special issue on COVID-19. This alert noted that COVID-19 would have particularly adverse implications for the ‘70 million people forcibly displaced by conflict, persecution and atrocity’, many of whom currently live in conditions which leave them vulnerable to the coronavirus. University of…Continue Reading COVID-19 and the Responsibility to Protect Rohingya Refugees
Parents in lockdown
There has been a great deal of speculation in the media about how relationships have fared during lockdown. Commitment theory sheds some interesting light on the matter in terms of predicting potential winners and losers (Stanley et al 2006). Commitment has two different facets: Dedication is the internal bond between two people that reflects their…Continue Reading Parents in lockdown
COVID-19: has the pandemic affected relationships between children and their non-resident parents?
The well-being and outcomes of children living in separated families are associated with the quality of their relationship with their non-resident parent, and child maintenance provided by that parent. It is therefore important to understand how COVID-19 has affected these. While the Understanding Society COVID-19 survey suggests a strong degree of stability in many children’s…Continue Reading COVID-19: has the pandemic affected relationships between children and their non-resident parents?