How to take part

We are conducting research on people’s experiences with bereavement related to COVID-19 during the pandemic. We wish to know: How do people make sense of loss from COVID-19, what people’s experiences of grief and mourning have been, and whether and how they feel like their experiences have been shaped by the political and social response to the pandemic (e.g. government policies, health services response etc). Your participation in this study will take approximately one hour for one online interview.

You can volunteer take part in this study, to provide your views and experiences, in the following ways: Online focus groups or online one-to-one interviews, led by the researcher via Zoom; online survey or by submitting your own document online or by post (including email, diary entry, blog post, letter). Zoom focus groups and interviews will take no longer than one hour, surveys will take approximately 5-30 minutes to complete (depending on how much you want to write in the open text questions), and documents of any length can be sent.

All data will be stored and used confidentially, and responses will remain anonymous in any reports, data repositories or publications.

This research is being conducted by Dr Simon Williams, Lecturer in Psychology in the Department of Psychology, Swansea University

If you are interested in being a participant, please contact Dr Simon Williams: s.n.williams@swansea.ac.uk

This research has been approved by the Research Ethics Committee, College of Human and Health Sciences, Swansea University.