This book is being published in the midst of the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic, an event that was beyond the imagination of most people at the time that the project started, but one that now grips the world and is one of the principal factors in how we presently organise our daily existence. It was suggested that we might add some information to the book about these changes and how they relate to the stories and research contained within. After much thought, it was felt that this preface was a more suitable space for such reflection. While there is no doubt at all that many of the chapters within this book could have easily been about the response to the Covid-19 outbreak, to insert this new narrative would have been to erode the experiences of those people who feature in these chapters.