Social/Policy Labs at Higher education institutions

5. How has COVID-19 impacted your organization’s activities? Please explain it:

  1. restricted some lab activities.
  2. limiting the activities and increasing reactions online.
  3. home office
  4. all the activities are online.
  5. we are mostly online, and contacts with students, colleagues, and industry for research are more difficult. training activities and workshops are not so easy online, even though we have tried hard.
  6. no activities have taken place since march 2020. all lab activities have been suspended while teaching has been held online.
  7. nearly all members of the diverse group can be considered as people at high risk for covid. therefore, we have been organizing all meetings and events online since march 2020. fortunately, this is not only a hurdle, but rather a possibility for us, because the online platforms make meetings and events more accessible in many ways (i.e. there is no need for accessible transportation and locations).
  8. it will be working in june 2021.
  9. changed all meetings to online ones, which inhibits collaborative creativity to some extent. precluded access to more powerful computing equipment, limited access to research subjects, both people and organizations.