Reflections on conducting research with healthcare users in a pandemic lockdown.

The COVID-19 lockdown period created both challenges and opportunities to undertake research. Research was facilitated by flexibility from funders and team members, support from networks and stakeholders and the willingness of individuals to participate. We could learn from the experience of lockdown research by improving institutional support for research processes and dissemination, investing in a nationwide online panel for public good research and ensuring that a planned database of health research can collect and monitor research proposals in times of rapid change and uncertainty.