Interdisciplinary Child Well-Being Network (ICWBN) online workshop: “COVID-19 crisis and children’s economic well-being, education and mental health in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland”
Time & Date: 8 September 2021, 10am – 4pm
Location: Zoom
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To download the programme, click here. To download the book of abstracts, click here.
The recordings of the presentations are available on YouTube.
| Time | Topic |
| 9:55 | Opening Remarks. Julia Mikolai |
| Session 1: Economic well-being (Chair: Kat Chzhen) | |
| 10:00 – 10:20 | Covid Realities: Reflections from researching with families living on a low income during the pandemic (Jim Kaufman, University of York) |
| 10:20 – 10:40 | Growing Up in Ireland: Key findings from the special COVID-19 survey (Aisling Murray, ESRI) |
| 10:40 – 11:00 | Socio-Economic impact of Covid-19 pandemic on children and families living in disadvantaged communities of Tallaght, Ireland (Jefrey Shumba, Childhood Development Initiative) |
| 11:00 – 11:20 | Generation Pandemic, The Frontline Perspective – an uncovering of the lived experiences of children and young people experiencing disadvantage in Ireland throughout Covid-19 (Sarah Edmonds, Irish Youth Foundation) |
| 11:20 – 11:30 | Break |
| Session 2: Education (Chair: Julia Mikolai) | |
| 11:30– 11:50 | Children’s learning experiences over the course of the pandemic in England (Adam Salisbury, IFS) |
| 11:50 – 12:10 | Coping with school closures: changes in home-schooling during COVID-19 (Birgitta Rabe, University of Essex) |
| 12:10 – 12:30 | Children’s engagement with remote schooling during the Spring 2020 lockdown in Ireland (Kat Chzhen, Trinity College Dublin) |
| 12:30 – 13:30 | Break |
| Session 3: Mental health (Chair: Jennifer Symonds) | |
| 13:30 – 13:50 | The COVID-19 crisis and children’s mental health in the UK (Julia Mikolai, University of St Andrews) |
| 13:50 – 14:10 | Tracking children, young people, and parents’ mental health throughout the pandemic: Findings from the UK Co-SPACE study and how we are responding to them (Cathy Creswell, University of Oxford) |
| 14:10 – 14:30 | The mental health and well-being of young people and their families during COVID-19: Key findings from Co-SPACE Ireland (Jennifer McMahon, University of Limerick) |
| 14:30 – 14:40 | Break |
| Session 4: Panel discussion (Chair: Susan Harkness) | |
| 14:40 – 16:00 | Children’s Society (UK), Save the Children (UK), One Family (Ireland), Ombudsman for Children’s Office (Ireland) |