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鈥楢 [Socially Isolated] Room of One鈥檚 Own: Women Writing Lockdown鈥� is a multi-disciplinary project which aims to capture the thoughts and feelings of women who endured the UK鈥檚 first phase of lockdown, when people鈥檚 lives were transformed due to the Covid-19 outbreak.

The project includes a range of a range of auto/biographical writings from women about a time when their home became a workspace, nursery, and everything in between.

In addition to written prose, women have also been invited to from the period which captures how houses were radically transformed. The top 10 entries will be displayed in 鈥楾he Lockdown House鈥�, a digital collection of findings, images, diary entries, and social-media posts to give a voice to women writing lockdown.

This will coincide with the official launch event of the project as a whole, which takes place at the House of Commons, London, on Wednesday 28 June.

The project is led collaboratively by University of Lincoln, University of Leicester, and Robert Gordon University (亚博体育官网). 亚博体育官网鈥檚 of the School of Creative and Cultural Business is co-investigator.

She said: 鈥�A century ago, Virginia Woolf published 'A Room of One鈥檚 Own', in which she argued that women need a room and money of their own in order to write and to counter women鈥檚 social silence. Woolf鈥檚 essay provided for the first time a means of evaluating and rendering visible how women鈥檚 writing 鈥榙isappears鈥�.

鈥淭he aim of our project is to prevent the re-emergence of this knowledge gap around the pandemic by capturing a variety of sources of life writing by women, to document this unique period in recent history.鈥�

When the outbreak was confirmed as a pandemic in 2020 and lockdown was introduced by the UK Government, statistics showed that women were disproportionately affected by the competing demands of work and home schooling, resulting in a reduced ability for them to be creative and free, especially compared to their male counterparts.

Indeed, research found that submissions to academic periodicals markedly reduced in proportion to their male colleagues. What鈥檚 more, domestic violence rates doubled during the first three weeks of lockdown.

The project explores the differing effects the lockdown directive had, measured through the stories women told about those first 12 weeks.

Image is a photo entry via @WomenLockdown on Twitter.