By Fred Cooper and Charlotte Jones A project on loneliness and mental health in collaboration with student co-researchers, most recently in the charged and altered context…
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By David Houston Jones The need to visualise COVID-19 has permeated official coverage, frequently in the form of charts showing daily infection growth rates and…
By Karen Walsh Authors: Karen Walsh, Andrea Wallace, Mathilde Pavis, Natalie Olszowy, James Griffin and Naomi Hawkins The importance of access to intellectual property rights…
By Carolyn Petersen Health and wellbeing benefits of walking on the South West Coast Path valued at over £75 million per year Latest research has…
By Tridibesh Dey Events like the COVID-19 pandemic can become what Assa Doron and Robin Jeffrey have called ‘binding crises’: ‘events with the clarity and immediacy of…
By Michael Schillmeier With COVID-19 we experience the dramatic effects of a cosmopolitical event by which a non-human actor politicizes, i.e. unbuttons the normalcy of…
By Neville Morley The first detailed, quasi-scientific account of epidemic disease was offered by the Ancient Greek historian Thucydides, describing an outbreak of ‘plague’ (the…
By Pascale Aebischer This project aims to provide a roadmap for local and regional companies that will enable them to bring furloughed staff back onto…
By Ben Hudson 2020 has been a year of global crises. In the early months, Brexit, forced migration and climate change all vied for dominance…
By Sabina Leonelli with Kaushik Sunder Rajan, Thomas Cousin and Michelle Pentecost ‘Struggles for a more just, fair, inclusive, or caring politics in the time of…
By Ginny Russell Since the start of the COVID-19 outbreak, the UK has the highest reported rate of “excess” deaths in Western Europe, if not…
By Fabrizio Nevola and collaborators PUblic REnaissance: Urban Cultures of Public Space between Early Modern Europe and the Present is a project funded by the…
By Georgia Smith Media coverage has repeatedly stressed that the Coronavirus holds the greatest threat for older individuals. Simultaneously, such coverage has exacerbated stereotypes of…
By Rebecca Probert Weddings have been one of the many casualties of COVID-19, and over the last few months many couples have had to postpone…
By Anna Mountford-Zimdars and colleagues The closure of schools during the COVID-19 pandemic impacts on young people, families, teachers and university admissions and outreach professionals. …
By Kirsten Bell and Judith Green One novel outcome of the current pandemic has been the proliferation of accessible published research. Many academic journal editors have…
By John Dupré Viruses are usually portrayed as stable and distinct individuals that do not fit the more integrated and collaborative picture of nature implied…
By John Dupré A mantra of recent government policy reporting in recent weeks is that they are only following the science. The science recommended the…
By Sabina Leonelli The pandemic has thrown questions around both scientific and public trust into the spotlight. On the one hand, attempts to manipulate public…
By Sabina Leonelli This journal special issue brings together scholarly reflections on the COVID-19 pandemic from scholars in the history, philosophy and social studies of…
By Sabina Leonelli Data have been at the centre of the pandemic response, in terms of which data are being collected, how they are being…
By Susan Molyneux-Hodgson During lock-down, our team has been active and reflected on the lessons from radiation protection, emergencies in Chernobyl and Fukushima and drawn…
By Anne Barlow and Jan Ewing Anne Barlow and Jan Ewing have been invited by the Ministry of Justice to work with them and a range…
By Anne Barlow New COVID-19 measures restricting our freedom to go out are bound to put couple relationships under pressure, even when family members are…
By Daniele Carrieri A recent WHO declaration reports that over 95% of COVID-19 related deaths in the European Region (currently the epicentre of the pandemic…
By Ting Guo This project (currently pursuing funding) investigates the translation, reception and use of personal narratives in the public discussion of COVID-19 in the…
By Aimee Murray Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has been cited as the most significant threat to the global health and global economy in recent years, but…
By Dave Richards and colleagues Nursing care is hugely important to people in hospital. Nurses help people with eating, drinking, going to the toilet, skin care,…
By Thibaud Deruelle This blog post offers an overview of the way health threats are governed in the European Union. It will be of particular…
By Thibaud Deruelle Europe is among the most affected regions in the world by the spread of COVID-19 and the continent’s recovery strategy to the…
By Felicity Thomas The International Labour Organization (ILO) recently warned of an ‘unsustainable global care crisis’, indicating that by 2030, the number of people needing…
By Des Fitzgerald “Stay at home” has become the iconic governmental injunction of the pandemic, often re-enforced by images of tearful health workers, circulated on…
By Gemma Lucas, Jennifer Lea, Chloe Asker Through the use of vignettes, this chapter draws on our personal, auto-ethnographic and everyday experiences to attend to…
By Gemma Lucas Within my wider project on well-being and gendered body shame, I am preparing a series of short essays exploring the reconfiguration of…
By Arthur Rose and Luna Dolezal During the COVID-19 crisis, metaphors of “saving face”, and its corollary “losing face”, have emerged as motivating forces that explain…
By Luna Dolezal and Arthur Rose During the COVID-19 crisis, the use of shame has been prominent and we discuss how this has impacted on…
By Luna Dolezal Political and media messages about the COVID-19 crisis are saturated with the language of wartime, and shaded by an implicit or explicit…
By Laura Salisbury As social media and different forms of populism continue to undermine trust in top-down expertise, it’s clear that facts are coming under…
By Laura Salisbury Waiting and Care in Pandemic Times’ is a collection of papers about time and care, written under conditions of lockdown in the…
By Robin Durie and Katrina Wyatt The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic will be felt most acutely in our most disadvantaged communities. Recognition of this…
By Branwyn Poleykett In West Africa the COVID-19 pandemic is unfolding against the backdrop of a “food crisis of exceptional magnitude.” People with expertise in…
By Sonia Oreffice and Climent Quintana-Domeque Amid the COVID-19 crisis in the United Kingdom, we formulated specific hypotheses and questions that were pre-registered in AsPredicted (#38962)…
By Climent Quintana-Domeque Amid the COVID-19 crisis in the UK, we study the demand and willingness to pay for hand sanitiser gel, disposable face masks…
By Julian Jamison This working paper (the corresponding author is Michèle Belot from the European University Institute) presents a new data set collected on representative…
By Julian Jamison Unusually for an infectious disease, COVID-19 has primarily made its presence felt in wealthier countries — so far. Now we are beginning…
By Christopher Southgate The project ‘Tragedies and Christian Congregations’, directed by Professor Chris Southgate in the Department of Theology and Religion, has been exploring how…
By Martin Moore Historians are as much a product of their particular time and place as the subjects we study. Our interpretations of the past…
By João Florêncio Led by Dr João Florêncio and comprised of a team of data scientists, cultural theorists, and computational social scientists, this project hopes…
By João Florêncio Soon after the COVID-19 pandemic reached Europe, triggering a variety of national public health responses throughout the continent, several theorists and philosophers…
By Louise Lawrence Louise Lawrence has been working on a research project entitled, “Compassionate Campuses: Refiguring Universities in an Age of Neoliberalism,” focusing on institutional…