Nipissing professor among international team studying loneliness, social isolation during pandemic

Nipissing professor of Social Work, Dr. Mary Pat Sullivan, is among a team of international researchers studying the effects of loneliness and social-isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The study, carried out by the International Loneliness and Isolation research NetworK (I-LINK), takes aim at understanding how people are coping with loneliness and social isolation amid the pandemic as well as the issues that individuals are facing, how they are managing and how their lives have been affected. The information collected will help researchers understand the impact on individuals, families, communities, policies and services at both a national and global level.

Dr. Sullivan is working alongside a team of researchers from institutions all over the world including The Institute of Public Health, Ulster University, Trinity College Dublin, Maynooth University, St James’s Hospital Dublin, Brunel, Boston College, Columbia University, George Mason University, University of Auckland & Swansea University, NORC at the University of Chicago, Brigham Young University, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and University of California, San Francisco.

You can find more information on the study and complete the survey here.