Digital Spaces, Art and BAME health: A qualitative study exploring how online spoken word eventimpact BAME health during the CoVid-19 pandemic

在COVID-19大流行期间，在线口语活动是否有效地为英国BAME妇女提供支持和信息？这项研究将研究诗歌和口语作为应对工具的有效性，这些工具是由于英国日益严重的健康不平等造成的BAME妇女生活中的交叉压迫对健康的负面影响，全球covid -19大流行加剧了这种不平等。利用参与性行动研究范式，我们将进行半结构化访谈，并促进焦点小组讨论，以阐明大流行病期间黑人和棕色人种妇女被忽视的生活经历及其健康状况。我们还将调查诗歌/口语和在线口语活动媒介在促进与会者和表演者之间交流经验和重要健康相关信息（如疫苗获取和犹豫）方面的使用和功效。这些数据将按主题进行分析，参与性诗歌调查将用于制作一本诗歌选集，该选集将创造性地展示参与者在全球卫生史上最具历史意义的事件之一期间的突出观点和经验。希望本研究项目的成果将填补在了解研究不足的人群的健康经历方面的巨大空白，这些人群在历史上受到日益严重的卫生不平等的影响，并受到COVID-19大流行的社会、政治和经济影响的不成比例的影响。

Were online spoken word events effective sites for support and information for UK BAME women during the COVID-19 pandemic? This research will look at the efficacy of poetry and spoken word as coping tools for the negative health impacts of the lived intersecting oppressions of BAME women as a result of growing health inequalities in the UK, which have been exacerbated by the globalCOVID-19 pandemic. Utilising a Participatory Action Research paradigm, we will conduct semi-structured interviews and facilitate focus groups which will elucidate the overlooked, lived experiences of Black and Brown women and their health during the pandemic. We will also investigate the use and efficacy of the medium of poetry/spoken-word and online spoken-word events in facilitating the communication of experiences and vital health-related information such as vaccine access and hesitancy, between attendees and performers. The data will be thematically analysed and participatory poetic enquiry used to produce an anthology of poetry, which creatively platforms participants' salient perspectives and experiences during one of the most historic events of global health history. It is hoped that the output from this research project will fill the huge gap in understanding the health experiences of an under-researched population who have been historically impacted by growing health inequities, and disproportionality impacted by social, political andeconomic repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic.