Abstract
The CARUL Collective is an interdisciplinary team of academics whose research explores the impacts of pandemic control measures on social life in Aotearoa New Zealand and the UK. Our work is based on a mixture of quantitative and qualitative survey research and semi-structured interviews. Having conducted four surveys during 2020, we distributed a follow-up survey in August 2021, just as a new lockdown occasioned by the detection of the Delta variant was being introduced.
This report summarises some of the main points that emerged from that survey that have not yet been reported in any published CARUL work. It has been prepared in the hope that an empirical overview of how people living in Aotearoa New Zealand reacted to the lockdown implemented at 23:59 on 17 August 2021 will be of value to Phase 2 of the NZ Royal Commission COVID-19 Lessons Learned and to the wider research community.