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DESCRIPTION:This paper reports on a research project\, ‘Learning to be Saf
 er’\, about how Australian adults learned about aspects of the COVID-19 p
 andemic during the early months of the crisis’? The paper explores the pr
 oject methodology\, and specifically how responses were affected by the gr
 owing seriousness of the topic\, and by the timing of the data collection.
   The survey method was similar to a 2019 Federation University project\, 
 ‘Learning to be Greener’\, which was about adults’ learning about recyc
 ling and plastic bag use (Smith\, 2019).  The on-line survey link was dist
 ributed to staff from a university with campuses mainly in Victoria. Staff
  were invited to forward the link to family and friends aged 18 and over. 
 Ethics approval was gained\, and care was taken in all communications to a
 cknowledge the difficult and stressful environment at the time and to unde
 rline that participation was voluntary.  The survey covered four topics: t
 he crisis: health information\, restrictions and closures\, the progress o
 f the pandemic nationally and internationally\, and financial provisions. 
 For each section\, potential sources of information were divided into ‘Me
 dia’ and ‘Non-media’ sources. These two lists were slightly adapted fro
 m lists used for the previous research project (Smith\, 2019)\, which were
  themselves developed from items in a survey on adults’ learning about th
 e Scottish referendum (Crowther\, Boeren & Mackie\, 2018). For each topic\
 , respondents were asked to reflect on their awareness\, and understanding
  of\, the topics at two different reference dates\, and then to indicate w
 hich of a large number of listed sources they learned from. There were als
 o brief demographic questions and questions about people’s life satisfact
 ion and optimism\, based on a European Union survey (Eurofound\, 2020)\, a
 nd about additional stressors respondents might be experiencing that could
  affect their experience of the pandemic. \nThe survey was carried out fro
 m 22nd June until 2nd August 2020. At the time the survey went into the fi
 eld\, the worst of the pandemic seemed to be over in Australia\, and the s
 urvey questions were predicated on that assumption\, with respondents bein
 g asked to answer about a number of matters as of late March when the lock
 downs had begun\, and  then in late June/July\, which was intended to capt
 ure the tail end of the pandemic’s effects. But Coronavirus cases soon ro
 se quickly in Victoria\, where most of the respondents were located\, lead
 ing to severe lockdown measures. We delayed a reminder notice to avoid cau
 sing extra distress\, and did not pursue other follow-up measures. As we c
 onducted the survey\, we noticed several things compared with the earlier 
 ‘Learning to be Greener’ survey. Firstly\, response rates were lower\, e
 ven though the earlier survey had restricted responses only to employees o
 f the university. Secondly\, there were fewer lengthy qualitative response
 s. Thirdly\, the data showed a different pattern of sources of information
 \, with government sources predominating.\n\nCo-author: Morgan Wise\, Fede
 ration University Australia
DTSTAMP:20260912T210717Z
LOCATION:Zoom Breakout Room 3
SUMMARY:Researching about a pandemic during a pandemic - Erica Smith
URL:https://conferences.acspri.org.au/2020/talk/TQXH79/
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