Co-production of care and recovery

As humans, we depend on care from birth, and we journey through life as recipients as well as providers of care. Collective crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic and personal hardships such as mental illness tend to exacerbate our needs for care, and we often rely on others to cope and recover. This research project advances a micro-sociological understanding of the reciprocal processes of caring arrangements, as enacted through social interactions situated in local contexts.

Our research produces new knowledge about the co-production of care and recovery enacted across public welfare sectors, NGOs and informal civil society in Denmark. The project encompasses two tracks of research: Track 1 focuses on the co-production of care during collective crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic, while track 2 studies the co-production of recovery in the wake of personal hardship related to mental illness.