This week the second stage of hidden hardship fieldwork is starting. So far I’ve been attending local community gatherings in a rural town and village in the North Cotswolds to meet local people and to hear about their experiences of hardship, and/or of responding to hardship. Some of the these Read more
What does it mean for someone to be experiencing hardship? There is not one fixed definition of hardship. As part of this research into hidden hardship in the North Cotswolds I’ve been asking people experiencing and/or responding to hardship what hardship means to them. In the coming months I’ll be Read more
The Hidden Hardship research is now in the fieldwork stage – I’m out and about in the North Cotswolds gathering ‘data’: meeting local people who are experiencing hardship, responding to hardship, and often both of these together. This has involved spending time at gatherings including a local foodbank, at a Read more
Welcome to the hidden hardship project website! This project runs until January 2024 and is funded by the British Academy and Leverhulme Trust. Run by Dr Stephanie Denning at the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations at Coventry University, it is looking at rural hidden hardship. The project aims Read more