BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Talks.cam//talks.cam.ac.uk//
X-WR-CALNAME:Talks.cam
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:A longitudinal survey of contacts\, symptoms\, and behaviour in a 
 university setting: Results\, applications\, and participants’ perspecti
 ves - Dr Emily Nixon\, University of Bristol
DTSTART:20210721T150000Z
DTEND:20210721T160000Z
UID:TALK161476@talks.cam.ac.uk
CONTACT:Dr Ciara Dangerfield
DESCRIPTION:Social contact surveys are important for informing mathematica
 l models of infectious disease spread. However\, surveys often suffer from
  biases. Here we discuss the motivation\, the implementation and the chall
 enges involved in setting up a longitudinal social contact survey in the m
 idst of a pandemic. We present results from an ongoing (since June 2020) l
 ongitudinal survey of social contacts\, behaviours and symptoms of univers
 ity staff and students\, which provides new insight into a previously unde
 rstudied population. Firstly\, we will discuss how our results have been u
 sed directly to inform policy and mathematical models during the COVID-19 
 pandemic. In addition\, we will present results from a study\, run in asso
 ciation with qualitative researchers\, which investigates the perspectives
  of our survey respondents and those of individuals in the same population
  who do not complete our survey.  We will present initial results and we u
 ltimately hope that this work will improve understanding around the biases
  that could exist in past surveys and will inform future social contact su
 rveys.
LOCATION:Zoom
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR