COVINFORM - Multi-site research design and methodological framework

The empirical research conducted in the COVINFORM project is centred around assessing COVID-19 impact, response, and lessons learned across diverse local contexts. This includes an exploration of how national and local COVID-19 responses have impacted human behaviour, social dynamics, economic wellbeing, and physical and mental health outcomes; how local responses to COVID-19 were adapted to and shaped by the local health, socioeconomic, political and community contexts; and which policy failures, unintended consequences, trade-offs and promising practices can be identified in COVID-19 responses. This report presents deliverable 3.2 (D3.2), which provides an overall framework for the project’s empirical research, including project-level research questions and the menu of research methods available for data collection. The aim of this deliverable is to streamline the empirical research that will take place across work packages and provide a clear set of expectations and guidelines. Based on extensive conversations with COVINFORM partners, D3.2 concretises previous work in WP3 to ensure coordination and consistency across the project’s empirical research sites