COVID-19 UK Public Experience Study website
Welcome
The COPE study is one of the largest and most in-depth social science studies of the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK. The study focuses on our thoughts, feelings and actions during the pandemic.
We carried out our first online survey between March 12th and April 12th 2020, just as the pandemic was reaching its first peak in the UK. 11,113 people took part in our first survey.
7,043 of our survey respondents completed a second survey in June and July 2020.
We will be inviting people who have taken part in our previous surveys to complete a questionnaire later this month, exactly a year on from our first survey.
We have also been carrying out in-depth interviews with 28 people from across the UK to find out about what life has been like for them during the first year of the pandemic.
Our study is important in informing government and health services response to the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as forming a valuable historic record of life in the UK during the pandemic.
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Contact us
If you have any questions about this study please contact us at covid19publicsurvey@cardiffmet.ac.uk
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The COVID-19 Public Experiences (COPE) Study: March 2022 Update
It’s hard to believe that we are now two years on from the start of the pandemic and the launch of our first COPE survey.
We’re now embarking on our 2-year follow-up survey and are looking forward to learning about how our cohort are feeling and what they are doing at this point in the pandemic. We would like to thank everyone who has taken part and has shared their experiences with us over the course of the pandemic.
In this wave of the survey, we are focusing on what people are doing now (if anything) to reduce the spread of COVID-19, how people feel about vaccinations against COVID-19, how the pandemic has affected leisure time activities, and experiences of using NHS services over the last six months.
Read the full update here.
