Author: Lucy Hodges
Professor Luna Dolezal, Dr Fred Cooper and Dr Arthur Rose have received a UKRI-AHRC COVID Rapid Response Grant (AH/V013483/1) for a project called “Scenes of Shame…
By Dora Vargha “We know a good deal about beginnings: those first signal cases of pneumonia in Guangdong, influenza in Veracruz, and hemorrhagic fever in…
By Lucy Osler “Connecting with others online is not a new practice, of course. However, with lockdown measures in place across much of the globe,…
By Neville Morley As the world endures a pandemic, the War on the Rocks podcast looks to a plague of the past: that which struck…
By: Karen Mattick, Jason Hancock and Daniele Carrieri This project explores the experience of ‘the class of COVID’ new medical graduates who are starting work…
By Luna Dolezal Social distancing has dislodged all human bodies from the usual taken-for-granted fabric of embodied social relations, leading to a repertoire of interaction…
By Sonia Oreffice We investigate gender differences across socioeconomic and wellbeing dimensions after three months of lockdown in the UK, using an online sample of…
By Catherine Caine The UK is currently facing unprecedented times as Covid-19 has forced the country into lockdown. However, the recent development consent application from EDF…
“In this blog post, we want to zoom in on the impacts that the COVID-19 pandemic and the lockdown restrictions have had on forests and…
For many of us, our experience of the COVID-19 crisis has been largely defined by experiences of absence — including the absence of everyday routines…
The time of COVID-19 represents a distinct, but currently under-defined and under-theorised, temporal moment. Using semiotic methods, this paper examines how the mechanical actions of…
In this paper we take up three terms – containment, delay, mitigation – that have been used by the UK Government to describe their phased…
Despite the first case of the novel coronavirus only being reported to the WHO at the end of December 2019, humanities and social science scholars…