Covid-19 Student Care Home Magazine Writing Scheme

Since November 2020, students from the School of English have been designing and producing magazines for Nottinghamshire care homes and the Queen’s Medical Centre. Usually our students would be taking part in the School’s shared reading project – visiting care homes, reading poems to and spending time with people there. But the COVID pandemic has put a temporary stop to face-to-face group activities in residential care.

Students in the School of English, however, have a found a novel way of maintaining contact with care home residents and providing them with some capital entertainment. In designing, writing and producing stimulating picture magazines – full of stories, poems, puzzles, local history pieces, and photo essays – the students have been able to maintain social connections with care home residents and hospital patients. The magazines have also provided students with the opportunity of sharing their university experiences with older generations, providing residents with first-hand account of student life.