Category: Government and the Media
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 Thibaud Deruelle Europe is among the regions most affected by COVID-19: the continent was designated in March 2020 as the new epicenter of the…
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…
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 João Florêncio Led by Dr João Florêncio and comprised of a team of data scientists, cultural theorists, and computational social scientists, this project hopes…