En Route to Recovery: Diversity and vulnerability in care work during and after the COVID-19 pandemic

康复之路：COVID-19 大流行期间和之后护理工作的多样性和脆弱性

基本信息

批准号：
ES/X001229/1
负责人：
Linda McKie
金额：
$ 32.06万
依托单位：
King's College London
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2022
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2022 至无数据
项目状态：
未结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FX001229%2F1
关键词：
En Route Recovery Diversity vulnerability

项目摘要

The COVID-19 pandemic has placed unprecedented strains on formal and informal care work, worldwide. Paradoxically, the pandemic created new jobs and possibilities in care work, but the jobs remain physically and mentally strenuous, low paid, and often with fixed term, precarious contracts and high turnover rates. These jobs present significant health risks for workers, given the potential to contract and spread the virus. Our project will focus on employees performing vital COVID-19 related jobs: providing individual care to vulnerable clients in both organisational and home settings. We will examine how diverse people (in Finland, Canada, Scotland/UK and South Africa) who work/have worked in formal and informal care address challenges by collaboratively examining their ideas to ease risks and develop opportunities to deliver and receive care. Specifically, we will analyse how care workers in precarious positions (women, LGBTI2S people, and migrant status or minority ethnic people) are experiencing COVID-19 crises in their work, and how they see a post-pandemic future. Our research is based on the United Nations (UN) research recovery roadmap and this Call's focus on reducing inequalities and vulnerabilities, and building a resilient, inclusive, and sustainable society. We will apply both quantitative and innovative qualitative methods to investigate how care sector workers have experienced the pandemic and how they see their post-pandemic times at work. Research participants will explore their working lives during and after the pandemic. We will conduct a cross-cultural narrative analysis with an intersectionality approach using longitudinal participatory methods (photovoice and soundsourcing). This information will be supplemented with a systematic literature review and secondary data. In collaboration with stakeholders, we will develop policy recommendations and share good practices with institutions and services responsible for care workers. Our collaborative approach with all stakeholders will provide sustainable suggestions and policy recommendations that should have worldwide application.

COVID-19 大流行给全世界的正式和非正式护理工作带来了前所未有的压力。矛盾的是，疫情在护理工作中创造了新的就业机会和可能性，但这些工作仍然对身体和精神造成很大的负担，工资低，而且往往有固定期限、不稳定的合同和高流动率。由于有可能感染和传播病毒，这些工作给工人带来了重大的健康风险。我们的项目将重点关注从事与 COVID-19 相关的重要工作的员工：在组织和家庭环境中为弱势客户提供个人护理。我们将研究在正式和非正式护理领域工作的不同人群（芬兰、加拿大、苏格兰/英国和南非）如何通过合作审查他们的想法来应对挑战，以减轻风险并开发提供和接受护理的机会。具体来说，我们将分析处境不稳定的护理人员（女性、LGBTI2S 人群、移民身份或少数族裔人群）在工作中如何经历 COVID-19 危机，以及他们如何看待大流行后的未来。我们的研究基于联合国 (UN) 研究恢复路线图，本次呼吁的重点是减少不平等和脆弱性，建设一个有复原力、包容性和可持续发展的社会。我们将运用定量和创新定性方法来调查护理部门工作人员如何经历这一流行病以及他们如何看待大流行后的工作时间。研究参与者将探讨他们在大流行期间和之后的工作生活。我们将使用纵向参与方法（照片语音和声音来源），通过交叉方法进行跨文化叙事分析。这些信息将得到系统文献综述和二手数据的补充。我们将与利益相关者合作，制定政策建议，并与负责护理人员的机构和服务机构分享良好做法。我们与所有利益相关者的合作方式将提供可持续的建议和政策建议，这些建议和政策建议应该在全球范围内应用。