This essay aims to contribute to the understanding of the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on a Norwegian- Russian social work research project. The reflexive act of writing about the project’s disrupted startup is an exercise of flexibility and dynamics in the research process. Well known grips for those of us working with qualitative inquiry. Still, the unpredictable landscape, uncertainty of what would come next, and the insecurity in the present moved us as researchers towards new local and contextual knowledge, forced by the pandemic’s extensive effects.

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适应不可预测的问题：大流行期间挪威-俄罗斯对摩尔曼斯克地区非政府组织的研究的故事

本文旨在帮助理解COVID-19大流行对挪威-俄罗斯社会工作研究项目的影响。关于项目被中断的启动的反思性行为是研究过程中灵活性和动态性的体现。对于那些从事定性探究的人来说，这是众所周知的方法。尽管如此，不可预测的形势，下一步的不确定性以及当前的不安全感使我们作为研究人员，由于流行病的广泛影响而不得不转向新的本地和背景知识。