Editorial: Innovation and Creativity in a Time of Crisis

Abstract

The sudden emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020 caused rapid change across the world, not least in the field of practice-based education for health and social care students. The imperative of supporting students to complete their programmes to ensure that they could enter the workforce on time led to a surge of creativity and innovation underpinned by knowledge, skills, experience, and plain hard work. In this, the first of two parts of this special issue, we hope to harness some of the learning and experience gained during this time of disruption to inform future developments. We also want to celebrate the work of programme teams in designing changes that brought some order and optimism to the early sense of chaos and worry. This issue includes eight