COVID-19 and shock response
The Accelerate Hub team has been responding to the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic, with a particular focus on supporting children, adolescents, and parents.
COVID-19-associated orphanhood
The objective of this research was to measure the impact the COVID‑19 pandemic has had on orphanhood globally. The researchers used mathematical modelling and mortality ...
COVID-19 Playful Parenting Emergency Response (“COPPER”) – Preventing Child Abuse in COVID-19
COVID-19 caused – and continues to cause – unprecedented stress for families: economic crisis, school closures, lockdowns, mental health distress, and consequent increased violence, with ...
Teen Advisory Group: Remote, participatory and arts-based COVID-19 research with adolescents and young people in South Africa and Kenya
Social and health vulnerabilities experienced by adolescents in South Africa and Kenya are exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Little is known about their unique experiences, challenges and coping strategies. Context-specific, age-appropriate, and social justice-informed COVID-19 research is needed. ...
Surviving a COVID-19 outbreak: narratives of lived experiences of adolescents at a Zimbabwean boarding school
This research seeks to understand the experiences of adolescent girls at a Zimbabwean school during a COVID-19 outbreak and their associated isolation. The background to ...
Scaling-up interventions for impact
This research project is led by researchers from the University of Oxford in collaboration with NGOs in Africa that work with adolescents. The central part ...
HEY BABY
HEY BABY (Helping Empower Youth Brought up in Adversity with their Babies and Young children) is a longitudinal mixed-methods cohort study of 1046 adolescent mothers ...
