Research
New publication in Qualitative Health Research
Several PEPR team members co-authored a paper on poverty and chronic pain experiences during the Covid-19 pandemic.
April 1, 2026
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Congratulations to Laura Connoy, Kathleen Rice, Craig Dale, Abhimanyu Sud, Ross Upshur, Joel Katz, Andrew Pinto, and Fiona Webster on their new publication in Qualitative Health Research. This work, through the CIHR-funded COPE II grant, used institutional ethnography to explore the experiences of people living with chronic pain and poverty during the pandemic.
- “Knowing Otherwise”: Unsettling Notions of Crisis Within Contexts of Chronic Pain and Poverty in the COVID-19 Era -
Abstract:
The purpose of this study was to highlight the experiences of people living with chronic pain and poverty during the pandemic. Guided by tenets of institutional ethnography, we highlight how the pandemic was often experienced as a source of temporary relief from pre-existing struggles and constituted an additional and unexceptional struggle. Findings indicate that the knowledge and experience gained from living with pre-existing, ongoing struggles contradicted pandemic narratives of crisis, adding nuance to the variability of experience. This calls attention to how the constructed nature of crisis may not align with the daily realities of those facing social inequities.
