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Care and Communities

COVID-19 and disability (Michael Schillmeier)

Posted on 21st Aug, 2020 by Admin

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…

Stories and Experiences

How did people respond to pandemics in Ancient Greece, and what can we learn from this? (Neville Morley)

Posted on 12th Aug, 2020 by Admin

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…

Stories and Experiences

The digital transformation of theatre during the pandemic (Pascale Aebischer)

Posted on 30th Jul, 2020 by Admin

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…

Law, Business and Education

How do educational leaders navigate the crisis? (Ben Hudson)

Posted on 25th Jun, 202026th Jun, 2020 by Admin

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…

Nature and Environment

Situating the biology of COVID-19: A Conversation on Disease and Democracy (Sabina Leonelli)

Posted on 16th Jun, 2020 by Admin

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…

Science and Data

Separating deaths caused directly by COVID infections from deaths caused by our policy response (Ginny Russell).

Posted on 14th Jun, 202022nd Jun, 2020 by Admin

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…

Stories and Experiences

Early modern public space and pandemics (Fabrizio Nevola)

Posted on 12th Jun, 202018th Jun, 2020 by Admin

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…

Government and the Media

Representations of older adults during the pandemic (Georgia Smith)

Posted on 12th Jun, 202018th Jun, 2020 by Admin

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…

Law, Business and Education

Getting married in pandemic times (Rebecca Probert)

Posted on 12th Jun, 202018th Jun, 2020 by Admin

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…

Law, Business and Education

The Educational Impact of School Closure (Anna Mountford Zimdars)

Posted on 12th Jun, 202018th Jun, 2020 by Admin

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. …

Science and Data

How has the pandemic affected academic publishing? (Judith Green)

Posted on 7th Jun, 202014th Jun, 2020 by Admin

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…

Nature and Environment

Is a virus a distinct entity? (John Dupré)

Posted on 7th Jun, 202021st Jun, 2020 by Admin

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…

Government and the Media

What do we mean by “following the science” in the COVID-19 pandemic? (John Dupré)

Posted on 7th Jun, 202014th Jun, 2020 by Admin

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…

Science and Data

How should we think about trust during the pandemic? (Sabina Leonelli)

Posted on 7th Jun, 202014th Jun, 2020 by Admin

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…

Science and Data

How can historical and philosophical knowledge help us to make sense of the crisis? (Sabina Leonelli)

Posted on 7th Jun, 202014th Jun, 2020 by Admin

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…

Science and Data

What is the role of data modelling and data science in the pandemic? (Sabina Leonelli)

Posted on 7th Jun, 202014th Jun, 2020 by Admin

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…

Care and Communities

What can our pandemic response learn from nuclear emergencies? (Susan Molyneux-Hodgson)

Posted on 7th Jun, 202014th Jun, 2020 by Admin

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…

Care and Communities

The implications for COVID-19 of separating families (Anne Barlow)

Posted on 7th Jun, 202014th Jun, 2020 by Admin

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…

Care and Communities

Couple relationships during COVID-19 : Strategies for coping (Anne Barlow)

Posted on 7th Jun, 202014th Jun, 2020 by Admin

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…

Health and Wellbeing

How should we protect the older population? (Daniele Carrieri)

Posted on 7th Jun, 202014th Jun, 2020 by Admin

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…

Government and the Media

The translation and dissemination of individual narratives on COVID-19 from China and Italy in the UK’s COVID-19 crisis (Ting Guo)

Posted on 7th Jun, 202014th Jun, 2020 by Admin

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…

Health and Wellbeing

What are the implications of COVID-19 for antimicrobial resistance? (Aimee Murray)

Posted on 7th Jun, 202014th Jun, 2020 by Admin

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…

Health and Wellbeing

COVID-NURSE: A randomised control trial for development, testing and evaluation of a COVID-19 fundamental nursing care protocol (Dave Richards)

Posted on 7th Jun, 202014th Jun, 2020 by Admin

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,…

Government and the Media

The pandemic and EU health policy (Thibaud Deruelle)

Posted on 7th Jun, 202014th Jun, 2020 by Admin

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…

Government and the Media

Europe’s recovery strategy to the COVID-19 crisis (Thibaud Deruelle)

Posted on 7th Jun, 202014th Jun, 2020 by Admin

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…

Care and Communities

Re-evaluating care work during the pandemic (Felicity Thomas)

Posted on 7th Jun, 202014th Jun, 2020 by Admin

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…

Government and the Media

What are the dangers of telling people to stay at home? (Des Fitzgerald)

Posted on 7th Jun, 202014th Jun, 2020 by Admin

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…

Care and Communities

What are the affective atmosphere of lockdown? (Gemma Lucas, Jennifer Lea and Chloe Asker)

Posted on 7th Jun, 202014th Jun, 2020 by Admin

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…

Health and Wellbeing

How should we think about bodies and emotions in the pandemic? (Gemma Lucas)

Posted on 7th Jun, 202014th Jun, 2020 by Admin

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…

Science and Data

‘Saving face’ and public health policy during COVID-19 (Luna Dolezal)

Posted on 7th Jun, 202014th Jun, 2020 by Admin

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…

Care and Communities

Naming and shaming: COVID-19 and the medical professional (Luna Dolezal)

Posted on 7th Jun, 202014th Jun, 2020 by Admin

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…

Government and the Media

Stigma and the logics of wartime (Luna Dolezal)

Posted on 7th Jun, 202014th Jun, 2020 by Admin

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…

Science and Data

How does evidence work in pandemic times? (Laura Salisbury)

Posted on 7th Jun, 202014th Jun, 2020 by Admin

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…

Care and Communities

Waiting and care in pandemic times (Laura Salisbury)

Posted on 7th Jun, 2020 by Admin

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…

Care and Communities

(Re)Building Community-Police Relations for Resilience after Lockdown (Robin Durie and Katrina Wyatt)

Posted on 7th Jun, 202024th Jun, 2020 by Admin

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…

Law, Business and Education

Is COVID-19 a moment for rebuilding the global food system? (Branwyn Poleykett )

Posted on 7th Jun, 202014th Jun, 2020 by Admin

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…

Care and Communities

What’s the evidence on people’s coronavirus perceptions? (Sonia Oreffice and Climent Quintana-Domeque)

Posted on 7th Jun, 202024th Jun, 2020 by Admin

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)…

Law, Business and Education

How much are people willing to pay for protective products? (Climent Quintana-Domeque)

Posted on 7th Jun, 202014th Jun, 2020 by Admin

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…

Law, Business and Education

A new six-country social survey on COVID-19 (Julian Jamison)

Posted on 7th Jun, 202024th Jun, 2020 by Admin

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…

Law, Business and Education

Lockdown in low-income countries (Julian Jamison)

Posted on 7th Jun, 202014th Jun, 2020 by Admin

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…

Care and Communities

Trauma project called in to support Christian ministers (Christopher Southgate)

Posted on 7th Jun, 202014th Jun, 2020 by Admin

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…

Law, Business and Education

How is COVID-19 reworking how we research and write history? (Martin Moore)

Posted on 7th Jun, 202014th Jun, 2020 by Admin

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…

Government and the Media

Disease, geopolitics, and militaristic rhetoric: An interdisciplinary critical analysis of the public debates on COVID-19 in the UK and USA (João Florêncio)

Posted on 7th Jun, 202014th Jun, 2020 by Admin

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…

Care and Communities

What does it mean to write philosophy and theory in the middle of a health crisis? (João Florêncio)

Posted on 7th Jun, 202014th Jun, 2020 by Admin

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…

Care and Communities

The impact of COVID-19 on university communities (Louise Lawrence)

Posted on 7th Jun, 202014th Jun, 2020 by Admin

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…

Law, Business and Education

The impact of COVID-19 on food supply chains (Richard Maull)

Posted on 7th Jun, 202014th Jun, 2020 by Admin

By Richard Maull The Internet of Food Things (IoFT) Network Plus brings together data and computer scientists, chemists, and economists to investigate how artificial intelligence,…

Health and Wellbeing

How have our understandings of existing respiratory diseases helped to frame our account of this pandemic? (Angela Cassidy)

Posted on 7th Jun, 2020 by Admin

By Angela Cassidy As humanity meets, identifies and struggles to understand the SARS-CoV-2 virus, scientific and societal understandings of the disease it causes (COVID-19) are…

Nature and Environment

Something in the air: COVID-19 and the politics of pollution (Angela Cassidy and Karen Bickerstaff)

Posted on 7th Jun, 2020 by Admin

By Angela Cassidy and Karen Bickerstaff In the UK, air pollution has been repeatedly invoked in debate around the COVID-19 pandemic: during a time of…

Science and Data

How do new diagnostic and testing technologies help to resolve infectious disease outbreaks? (Angela Cassidy)

Posted on 7th Jun, 2020 by Admin

By Angela Cassidy The past decade has seen an explosion in the availability and uptake of new technologies enabling the rapid testing, diagnosis and detection…

Science and Data

Can science settle controversial policy questions? (Angela Cassidy)

Posted on 7th Jun, 202014th Jun, 2020 by Admin

By Angela Cassidy There are many parallels between the UK’s response to the arrival of COVID-19 in recent months and its much longer policy history…

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  • Care and Communities (19)
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  • Health and Wellbeing (10)
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  • Science and Data (12)
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We are keen to engage as many people as possible in this research, whether individual members of the public, civil society organisations, policy-makers, media organisations, other researchers — or anyone else.

If you have questions about specific projects and ideas reported here, please get in touch with the corresponding author (email hyperlinked at the beginning of each article).

If you are interested in contributing to this site, would like to offer general feedback and/or propose new topics of inquiry, please get in touch with the organising team at wellcomecentre@exeter.ac.uk.

In the fall we will organise virtual, public discussion events focusing on specific strands of the research highlighted here.

Exploring Society With COVID-19 is a platform for Humanities and Social Sciences research on COVID-19 at the University of Exeter. It is coordinated by The Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health and Egenis: the Centre for the Study of the Life Sciences.
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