Changing Realities
Jean has been working with participatory research project Changing Realities (previously Covid Realities) to support zine making since 2021.
Covid Realities was a national research project working alongside parents and carers to share experiences of life on a low-income during Covid-19, developing ideas together for what needs to change and why.
Changing Realities is a collaboration between parents and carers, researchers at the University of York, and Child Poverty Action Group, coming together to share experiences of life on a low-income in the UK and to make change happen.
Zine making has been a space to creatively explore lived experiences, and to communicate what needs to change and why.
Jean has worked with participants, research team and close colleagues to collectively make the following zines shown below.
It’s Our Story: Families’ Lived experience during the Pandemic
A collective zine made by participants in Covid Realities, exploring challenges and stresses of living through the pandemic as well as what needs to change and why.
Read the zine online here.
Reflections on our Participatory Research
Read the zine online here.
‘Doing It Together: An (un) guide to making zines with people’
This shares our learnings about using zine-making as part of the Covid Realities research. It includes reflections and insights from participants and researchers from the project as other zine makers who we have learned from.
Read the zine online here.
Read a blog post from Jean about her experiences of making the zines with Covid Realities here.