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How has outdoor exercise been affected by the pandemic? (Carolyn Petersen)

Posted on 4th Feb, 2021 by Admin

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…

Nature and Environment

COVID-19 as method: Managing the ubiquity of waste and waste-collectors in India (Tridibesh Dey)

Posted on 29th Jan, 2021 by Admin

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…

Law, Business and Education

Applying for development consent during lockdown: The Sizewell C Nuclear Power Station (Catherine Caine)

Posted on 9th Jul, 20209th Jul, 2020 by Lucy Hodges

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…

Nature and Environment

Covid19 in the Inter-Andean Forests of Colombia (Dunia H. Urrego)

Posted on 24th Jun, 2020 by Lucy Hodges

“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…

Care and Communities

Having a moment: the revolutionary semiotic of COVID-19 (Michael Flexer)

Posted on 22nd Jun, 2020 by Lucy Hodges

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…

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…

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…

Nature and Environment

Consuming single-use plastics in the pandemic (Tridibesh Dey and Mike Michael)

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

By Tridibesh Dey and Mike Michael The promotion of single-use plastic in healthcare is about reducing the chances of cross-infection; however a similar dynamic can now…

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…

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  • Nature and Environment (9)
  • Science and Data (13)
  • Stories and Experiences (17)

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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