Bridging Covid

By analysing diary and documentary evidence from practitioners across the global bridge community, this research aims to provide insights into the short and longer term impacts of Covid-19 on the bridge community around the world. All experiences are relevant and the researchers are keen to hear from players, teachers, club organisers and anyone connected to bridge. The project, led by Dr Miriam Snellgrove, began in 2020 and was completed in 2023.

BAMSA, University of Stirling

Snellgrove, M. and Punch, S. (2024) Situating bridge: Understanding older adults’ digital leisure practices during the COVID-19 pandemic, Journal of Leisure Research.

• Practical summary

Snellgrove, M. and Punch, S. (2022) Negotiating Insider Research through Reactive Collaboration: Challenges, Issues and Failures, Qualitative Research Journal.

MacLean, J., Punch, S. and Xu, M. (2023) ‘Card Confessions: Digital forms of deviance in the mindsport bridge.’ In: Lamond, I. (ed.) Deviant Leisure and Events of Deviance. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Snellgrove, M.L. and Punch, S. (2022) ‘Bridge during a time of disruption: Pandemic playing, everyday habits and situated writing’, in Sharp, B., Finkel, R. and Dashper, K. (Eds) Leisure in the Pandemic: Re-imagining Interaction and Activity during Crisis, London: Routledge.

Nethery, C. and Punch, S. (2023) The Missing Bridge Players of the Pandemic: Experiences of players who did not make the transition to online bridge, BAMSA Report: University of Stirling

Snellgrove, M., Punch, S and Rees, T. (2021) Using Digital Leisure to Tackle Social Isolation, Policy Briefing for the Scottish Government.

Available: https://www.stir.ac.uk/research/public-policy-hub/policy-briefings/

Snellgrove, M.L. and Punch, S. (2020) Bridge in the Time of Covid-19: Emerging Findings, BAMSA Report: University of Stirling

Snellgrove, M. & Punch, S. (2022) Bridging the Gaps: Diaries and Digital Card Games during the COVID-19 Pandemic [Online] The Sociological Review Magazine. 6 September 2022.

Snellgrove, M.L. and Punch, S. (2021) ‘Digital Bridge during the Coronavirus Pandemic’, The Academy of Leisure Sciences Virtual Conference, 8-19 February 2021

• Video presentation

BAMSA (2021) Impact of a Global Pandemic on Bridge, 4^th International Bridge Conference, Bridging Academia, Policy and Practice, 29 June 2021, University of Stirling.

BAMSA (2021) Digital Bridge and Cheating, 4^th International Bridge Conference, Bridging Academia, Policy and Practice, 29 June 2021, University of Stirling.

Maclean, J., Punch, S. and Xu, M. (2021) Card Confessions: Unravelling Digital Bridge during Lockdown, 4th International Bridge Conference, Bridging Academia, Policy and Practice, 29 June 2021, University of Stirling.

Snellgrove, M.L. (2022) Diary Methods in the Social Sciences, Workshop on Diary Data: Scottish Graduate Summer School, 15 June 2022.

Call for participants:

BAMSA Recruitment Letter & Prompts.pdf

BAMSA Participant Information Sheet.pdf

Or email views on bridge and Covid-19 to [email protected]