Researching the Pandemic: Challenges for Qualitative Longitudinal Research

Description

This contribution addresses the challenges in researching the COVID-19 pandemic by means of qualitative longitudinal research. The focus lies on research about families, elaborating on three main aspects: (a) dealing with exceptional circumstances that contribute (b) to considerable limitations of social science research, which (c) demands high awareness of ethical responsibility. Examples are drawn from the Austrian qualitative longitudinal study “Corona and Family Lives” that covers two years since the onset of the pandemic, relying on interviews and diary entries of 98 parents of kindergarten- and school-aged children. Respondents have been contacted repeatedly, and 12 waves of data collection have been completed between March 2020 and June 2022.

Period	13 Sep 2022
Event title	The Timescapes 10 Festival
Event type	Lecture series, colloquium
Location	Leeds, United KingdomShow on map