Local Resilience Forums and lessons from Covid-19 response: a pilot study

This project aims to inform the development of larger study that will be the subject of a Fellowship application. The fellowship would explore the work of Local Resilience Forums (LRFs) during and following the COVID-19 pandemic. In particular how the work of LRFs take account of existing social and health inequalities.

The objectives of the pilot study described in this funding application are to:

1. Develop the networks to support my future fellowship bid
2. Conduct a scoping review of the most recent existing literature
3.  Assess the feasibility of collecting relevant local documents (e.g. meeting minutes, plans or reports)
4. Conduct interviews with key stakeholders
5. Submit a proposal for a Post Doctoral Research Fellowship and disseminate key findings from the pilot study.

Two LRFs have been selected for the pilot work; one with higher levels of deprivation and one with lower levels of deprivation providing a basis for comparison. In addition to supporting a fellowship bid, it is anticipated that the pilot study, though small scale will produce useful insights and outputs for the work of LRFs.