Write about your life during the Coronavirus pandemic

We are interested in hearing how the Coronavirus outbreak has affected your day-to-day life, and how you have experienced the pandemic, the measures taken to confine it, as well as the public and private discussions regarding Coronavirus. You can use your own style of writing and write about your own experiences and the topics that are important to you. It is up to you how much or little you write.

You can send us your story in either of the following ways:

1) Write your story to the textbox below (see Your story). Please note that you can also use copy/paste to copy your text from another location. After you have finalised your story, please follow the instructions below the textbox.

2) Send us your story in an attachment file. Before sending the attachment, please answer the Background questions below. After that, please follow the Instructions for sending an attachment.

Please focus on the topics that matter to you the most! If you like, you can also use some of the questions below to help you. We would be interested to know for example...

Life during the Coronavirus outbreak
...how do you feel and what do you think about the Coronavirus outbreak?
...in what ways has the pandemic affected your day-to-day life?
...how do you feel about the request to stay at home as much as possible? Have you followed this request?

Contacts and help
...in what ways do you keep in touch with other people? Have you felt alone at all?
...have you needed help from other people? Have you received such help?
...has the Coronavirus outbreak affected the public services you need?
...do you think you will get help if you need it in the future? From whom? Who do you think should help?
...have you provided support and help to other people?
...are you worried at all about family members? Are your family members worried about you?
...have the travel restriction related to the Coronavirus pandemic affected your life in any way? 

Discussions, debates and information about Coronavirus
...what kinds of news outlets and discussions about Coronavirus have you followed in the media? How do you feel and/or what do you think about the way the pandemic has been reported in the news and discussed more generally?
...what kinds of discussions have you had about Coronavirus with your friends and family? How do you feel and/or what do you think about these discussions?
...in your opinion, have you received enough information about the measures and restrictions related to the Coronavirus outbreak? Would you have wished for more information or information of a different kind?

What else would you like to tell us about your life during the Coronavirus outbreak?

After you have finalised your story, please follow these instructions:

1) Please answer the Background questions below
2) Please go to Proceed at the end of the page.
3) Choose Submit, and your story will be sent to us.

We will ensure your anonymity throughout the research process. We will store all written stories without identifiers and we will not publish complete stories. In our research publications we may use direct quotes from your story, but we will carefully remove all identifiable information from these quotes. You can read more about our privacy and data protection policy from here.

In the above, you indicated that you would like to receive information about the results of the research and/or that you could consider participating in an interview after the restrictions related to the Coronavirus are lifted. Please leave us your email address in the textbox bellow. We collect email addresses only for sending information about the research results and/or to organise an interview (on your permission). We will store the email addresses separately from the collected data.

If you have written your story to the textbox above, you can go to Proceed and choose Submit. If you would like to send us your story in an attachment file, please follow these instructions:

1) Please go to Proceed below.
2) Check I want to send an attachement/attachements.
3) Choose Submit.

A new window will open up allowing you to send us the attachment. Please follow the instructions in the new window. Please note that after choosing Upload file in the new window, your story will be automatically sent to us.