COVID-19 has impacted many aspects of children’s lives across Scotland and had detrimental effects on their health and well-being. Recreational sport has long been understood as a crucial mechanism for improved health and well-being and positively impacting social cohesion, education, and the economy.
As the world battles the COVID-19 pandemic, an epidemic of misinformation has been circulating through different communication channels and communities. The objectives of our project are to increase UNICEF’s ability to identify and track rumours and myths around COVID-19 through the U-Report Chatbot, and to develop more sophisticated tools for responding to and debunking rumours.
This research will provide vital national data directly from pupils, to assess impacts on mental health and education. It will contextualise pupils’ experience within data on COVID-19 prevalence, health patterns and trends and against educational achievement outcomes data, to inform interventions and policy making.
The aim of this project is to conduct a desk-based exercise that maps the sources of information (data) - and details about those sources - that are seen to relate to understanding more about the socioeconomic impacts of COVID19 for and on children, and by extension how to tackle them.
Read the final report from our project examining the impacts of isolation on young people’s mental health.
An Impact Statement for our project examining how isolation, school closure and exam cancellation caused by Covid-19 affected the mental health of young people.
An evidence review based on our project addressing the socioeconomic impacts of COVID-19 on children.
A range of data catalogue outputs from our project addressing the socioeconomic impacts of COVID-19 on children.
An Impact Statement for our project addressing the socioeconomic impacts of COVID-19 on children.
A summary of the outputs of our webinar discussion for our project addressing the socioeconomic impacts of COVID-19 on children in Scotland.
