Kate Pickett
Healthy Livelihoods Joint Theme Lead
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This includes initiatives across areas such as income, learning, skills, engagement and control over community resources, with a view to designing interventions that support families’ material resources.
The COVID-19 pandemic has hit our communities hard and has impacted on some of our work over the last 12 months, providing both challenges and opportunities.Some of our planned research has not progressed due to lockdown or social distance measures, but other projects have been adapted to provide valuable new insights into the effects of COVID-19 on families and young people.
The COVID-19 pandemic led to our project looking at the impact of the pandemic on families with children under five and pregnant women in Tower Hamlets. This included a survey of 1600 families, a qualitative longitudinal panel of 20 households, and a community assets map of changes to services for families during the summer of 2020. We were also funded to undertake some work around adapting to COVID-19 with pregnant women and new mothers in ‘The Born in Bradford 2020 Families Study’.
We are developing a visualisation of the community assets map from social enterprise Mapping for Change.
Our plan for a trial of Universal Basic Income (UBI) among young adults to understand how it impacts health and wellbeing outcomes has local support and we are working with Lancaster University and colleagues at the The Royal Society for Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) to secure funding for work on UBI to promote wellbeing.
Despite COVID-19 disruption we have started our project to deliver welfare benefit advice in maternity care services.
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The UK Prevention Research Partnership is a £50 million multi-funder initiative that supports novel research into the primary prevention of non-communicable diseases to improve population health and reduce health inequalities.