Speakers: Olga Zayts, Associate Professor, School of English, HKU; Zoe Fortune, CEO of City Mental Health Alliance Hong Kong
International research team:
Mariana Lazzaro-Salazar, Universidad Católica del Maule, Chile
Sylvia Jaworska, the University of Reading, the UK
Tse Wai Sum, Vincent, the University of Hong Kong
Moderator: Brian King, Assistant Professor, School of English, HKU
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The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has taken an enormous toll on the mental health of working mothers across the globe, who have struggled to sustain full-time employment, while simultaneously dealing with the closure of schools and childcare facilities and home-schooling. In this talk we present selected results of a cross-disciplinary collaborative project between psychologists, sociolinguists and a mental health NGO in Hong Kong, and discuss how such collaborative work can lead to meaningful impacts bridging academic research in social sciences and humanities, public policy and the ‘lived experiences’ of real people in the community during the unprecedented health crisis.
