The Final Chapter of my Thesis: How I Made the Most out of Finishing my PhD in Children’s Eating Behaviour During a Pandemic

In early 2020, national lockdowns in response to the Covid-19 pandemic meant that face-to-face research could no longer go ahead in the UK. This article describes my experiences as a final year PhD student who was in the middle of data collection for a feasibility trial of a children’s healthy eating intervention when the lockdown began. This reflective piece tracks my thought processes throughout the last year of my PhD, exploring the difficulties and decisions encountered along the way, as well as the serendipity of unexpected research opportunities.