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Covid and time

With Professor Rebecca Coleman - University of Bristol, Dr. Dawn Lyon - University of Kent, in collaboration with Chloe Turner, Corine van Emmerik and Mass Observation.
Overview
‘Feeling, making and imagining time: Everyday temporal experiences in the Covid-19 pandemic’ is led by Rebecca Coleman and Dawn Lyon (University of Kent), conducted in collaboration with Chloe Turner, Corine van Emmerik and Mass Observation (http://www.massobs.org.uk/). It is one part of a broader project on Covid-19 and time, which includes Emily Grabham (University of Kent), Michelle Bastian (University of Edinburgh), Simon Bailey (University of Kent) and Dean Pierides (University of Stirling). The project website is: https://research.kent.ac.uk/daat-coronavirus/

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This project is part of British Academy funded research, ‘Feeling, making and imagining time: Everyday temporal experiences in the Covid-19 pandemic’, which explores three things: 
 
  1. 1. The different kinds of feelings people have about the ‘time’ of the Covid-19 pandemic. We  
    are interested in how people feel the pandemic has changed the pace or rhythms of their  
    lives since spring 2020 and what emotions have marked the last year for them.  

  2. 2. The different kinds of actions people take to make a difference to their experience of time  
    during the pandemic. This might include creating new everyday routines or setting  deadlines, for instance.  
  3. 3. The ways in which the pandemic has shaped people’s imaginations, especially in relation to how they think about the future and what it may hold.  
 
Students participated in a ‘feel tank’, or a kind of focus group in which ‘temporal feelings’ are explored, led by Chloe Turner (Goldsmiths, University of London) and Rebecca Coleman (University of Bristol). The feel tank involved discussion, writing a reflective diary and creating art-works to articulate these feelings, actions and imaginations through different media. Some of these diaries and art-works are featured here (photographs by Tom Wadsworth, Goldsmiths, University of London).
Images from the session
Reflective diary
Picture

​The Time

Students then participated in a second workshop with artists Paula Varjack and Chuck Blue Lowry, exploring the topic further and creating material for a film, The TIME by Varjack and Lowry.
You can view The TIME by clicking on the image.
The research has been published in two blog posts, ‘A Day at a Time’ (2020): https://archive.discoversociety.org/2020/09/15/a-day-at-a-time-a-research-agenda-to-grasp-the-everyday-experience-of-time-in-the-covid-19-pandemic/ and ‘Funny how time slips away’ (2022): https://thesociologicalreview.org/magazine/march-2022/time/funny-how-time-slips-away/
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