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/
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:
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).
‘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/
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. 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. 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. 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
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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/
