Surveys and research relating to covid-19

The Culture, Health & Wellbeing Survey is here, a UK-wide partnership between this Alliance, Arts Culture Health and Wellbeing Scotland (ACHWS) and the Wales Arts, Health & Wellbeing Network (WAHWN). Deadline 9am 11 May.

Several large and medium-scale surveys have been launched to track the impacts of covid-19 on a variety of areas that will be of relevance to our members and anyone interested in culture, health and wellbeing. Please consider taking part, below. We will update this page with results where we can. (Our main coronavirus resource page is here.) Nesta has also been collating surveys and are calling for coordination to better understand the results.

For creative practitioners/cultural sector workers

A Centre for Performance Science (Royal College of Music/Imperial College London) survey to understand how covid-19 is impacting the arts and cultural sectors in the following countries: Australia | Canada | New Zealand | UK | USA
The Contemporary Visual Arts Network visual arts workers survey to help understand impact and also the effectiveness of support offered by Arts Council England / HM Treasury
The UK Cultural and Creative Sector Coronavirus Impact Study for the UK cultural sector
Arts Council Ireland survey for artists
The Centre for Cultural Value survey of attitudes to and practices of evaluation

Mental health impacts

UCL have launched an ongoing study into the mental health impacts of covid-19, which Daisy Fancourt introduces here
Kings College London and South London & the Maudsley are also conducting a survey on mental health impacts here
Synergi Stories: Covid-19 eJournal survey, which aims to capture and document the narratives of ethnic minority people with lived experience of severe mental illness and their carers during the Coronavirus pandemic.

Community organisations

The NCVO have a case study form here for voluntary/third/community sector organisations to help them 'understand what's happening on the ground' and keep decision-makers and the media informed
The Ubele Initiative have been surveying the impact on BAME community organisations; phase one findings can be found here, and keep up to date with new surveys by visiting the Ubele site

Other research/surveys

Call from University of Tampere (Helsinki) for personal accounts and reflections on everyday life during the pandemic
The University of Auckland (New Zealand) are conducting an online story completion study for people in New Zealand the UK

Results

Our own snapshot report on the culture, health and wellbeing sector at 26 March is here
a-n have published results of their survey here:
Crafts Council survey results
National Lottery Heritage Fund survey results on the impact on the heritage sector

Results to come...

National Council for Voluntary Organisations and National Association for Voluntary and Community Action survey