New Thinking: Children and health

Arts & Ideas

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4.2 • 598 Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

What can we learn from children's experiences in the Pandemic at home and at school? Can children express their experiences through drawing, and how might a simple curtain help create happy family homes?

Lindsey McEwen is Professor of Environmental Management within the Department of Geography and Environmental Management at the University of the West of England, Bristol. Her research involved working with children in Bristol to understand their experiences and impact of the Pandemic on their school lives. As part of the research, she helped to create a children's book called "Learning to Live With Fog Monsters" which aims to understand and help children to cope with the impacts of invisible threats like pandemics or climate change. The book and more information on the project are available at https://www.vip-clear.org/the-primary-book/

Rosie Parnell is Professor of Architecture & Pedagogy at the University of Newcastle. Her research explored the impact on home design and sharing family spaces during the pandemic, and how families changed homes during the Covid lockdowns. As part of the research, she helped to create a "Home Hack Help Kit" to help families come up with solutions to issues around shared spaces in the home, which can be found here https://homehacktoolkit.co.uk/

Dr Daisy Fancourt is Professor of Psychobiology and Epidemiolgy at University College London and a BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker.

Producer: Sofie Vilcins

This New Thinking conversation is a part of a series of 5 episodes of the Arts and Ideas podcast marking the 75th anniversary of the NHS focusing on new research in UK universities which explores links between the arts and health. It is made in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council, part of UKRI. You can find out more on their website https://www.ukri.org/councils/ahrc/ and if you want to hear more there is a collection called New Research on the website of BBC Radio 3’s Free Thinking programme https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0144txn or sign up for the Arts and Ideas podcast on BBC Sounds

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0:34.6	Hello, I'm Professor Daisy Fancourt.
0:36.7	And in this episode of the New Thinking Strand
0:39.5	of the Arts and Ideas podcast, we're looking back at the experiences of children during the
0:44.8	pandemic, specifically what we've learned about the environment they spent their time in
0:49.4	from research projects that have been happening at some UK universities. I'm joined today by Professor
0:55.8	Lindsay McEuren, who's based at the University of the West of England, Bristol, and Professor
1:00.8	Rosie Parnell from Newcastle University. Rosie, you're a professor in the architecture and planning
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