Category: Health and Wellbeing
By Fred Cooper A guest post in the blog series on ‘Solitude in the Time of COVID-19‘ from historian Fred Cooper, who offers a path…
By Charlotte Jones In collaboration with workers, trade unions and local campaigns, this project responds to rapidly changing circumstances in the hospitality sector since the UK…
By Fred Cooper and Charlotte Jones In this article Charlotte Jones and Fred Cooper argue that Covid-19 seems to be creating the conditions for new extremes…
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…
By Olly Clabburn, Fred Cooper, and Charlotte Jones lockdownblues.co.uk A website and virtual scrapbook for the sharing of experiences and observations on loneliness and isolation before,…
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 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: 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 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 Manuela Barreto Loneliness is a widely-reported experience internationally; but while it is common, it is often stigmatised, and can lead to mental health problems.…
By Neil Adger The COVID-19 pandemic is producing substantial changes in the practices and experiences of migration and mobility. The personal transition of everyone who…
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 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 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 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 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…