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Generation Pandemic - The Network behind the Podcast

Generation Pandemic - The Network behind the Podcast

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 In the final episode of the Generation Pandemic podcast, host Catherine McDonald talks to the two principal investigators behind the Interdisciplinary Child Well-Being Network. Dr Kat Chzhen is the Network's Irish principal investigator and is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Scoiology at Trinity College Dublin. Dr Julia Mikolai focuses on the UK and is a Senior Research Fellow at the School of Geography and Sustainable Development at the University of St Andrews.  They discuss the point at which they realised the Network needed to exist and what their plans are moving forward. They also look at where they think we are in terms of recovery from the pandemic and what gaps in the evidence need to be addressed.    Transcript Catherine McDonald  0:09  Hello and welcome to Generation Pandemic, a podcast from the Interdisciplinary Child Wellbeing Network looking at the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on children in the UK and Ireland. I'm Catherine McDonald, and today I'm in conversation with the two Principal Investigators behind the network. Dr. Kat Chzhen is the Irish Principal Investigator and is an assistant professor at the Department of Sociology at Trinity College, Dublin. Dr. Julia Mikolai, is the network's Principal Investigator for the UK, and is a senior research fellow at the School of Geography and Sustainable Development at the University of St. Andrews. So hello Cat. Hello, Julia. Kat Chzhen  0:48  Hi! Julia Mikolai  0:49  Hi Catherine. Catherine McDonald  0:50  So congratulations on the completion of your network's first podcast series. Kat Chzhen  0:55  Thank you so much, Catherine, it's been an amazing experience, a lot of it, you know, thanks to you, and Research Podcasts. But of course, all the contributors, I personally am so impressed with how many people were eager to take part and how many episodes had you know more than even the few contributors, but three or four. And it was also great to have contributors who are not academics or practitioners. But you know, say mothers with children such as Laura and others, and I am extremely thankful to them. So for me, that's been the highlights the diversity of contributors, and just how smoothly it all went. And then how exciting the episodes are to listen to. Catherine McDonald  1:36  And Julia, what have you thought as the episodes have been published? Julia Mikolai  1:39  Yeah, I have completely agree with Kat, I think we have heard some really heart wrenching stories from parents and teachers. And that has really allowed us to get a better grasp of people's lived experiences of the pandemic, not only what we know, from research and our colleagues and amazing contributors, but also perhaps those voices that we hear a little bit less often as researchers who might work with a secondary data. So I hope that everybody really enjoyed the series, or enjoyed it as much as we did. Catherine McDonald  2:09  Yes, you make a really good point there, Julia. These are stories that actually as a society as a whole we possibly don't hear enough of, and they're really important stories to be told, aren't they? Julia Mikolai  2:20  Oh, absolutely. And I think that perhaps especially certain groups of society don't hear many of these stories. So I got the impression during the pandemic, that many people weren't actually aware of the scope of socioeconomic inequalities that we have here in the UK, and also in other countries. And obviously, the pandemic has kind of reaped these up. And there has been a lot more talk, at least that was my impression among the general public as well about these inequalities. Kat Chzhen  2:48  But there could be so much more of that, sorry to interject. And partly, it's because the pandemic, at least in the beginning, had this feature where everybody stayed at home and focused on their own family. It's almost like everybody lived in a castle with a moat. And it was so difficult to interact with others. And so of course, living in those bubbles, those who are better off, probably had very little idea about how difficult it was for those who are less well off, especially when even those who are you know, socially economically better off those who have more money and those who kept their jobs and just worked from home. They also had immense struggles working from home, especially if they have children. So everybody was just so caught up in their own problems and the unexpected nature of the challenges the pandemic brought about that I think a lot of us just didn't think enough about the struggles of those who really, really had it very tough. And that is why I'm so happy with this podcast, because finally we did hear different voices. And we need to do more of that so that everybody really understands that there are significant social inequalities. And they may even be getting worse because of the pandemic and now also the cost of living crisis and all of the other challenges, including climate ...
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