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Behavioural insights teams in practice: nudge missions and methods on trial

Behavioural insights teams in practice: nudge missions and methods on trial

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  • May 22, 2020

Sarah Ball and Brian Head They go by a variety of names; nudge units, behavioural insights teams and behavioural economics teams. [...]

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Sitting at the back? The impact of Covid19 on migrant pupils in the UK

Sitting at the back? The impact of Covid19 on migrant pupils in the UK

  • By discoversociety
  • May 22, 2020

Alessio D’Angelo The last few weeks have seen schools move to the very centre of the British coronavirus debate. Between confusing [...]

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COVID 19 and Social Care: a triple threat?

COVID 19 and Social Care: a triple threat?

  • By discoversociety
  • May 21, 2020

Jim Rogers  I am concerned for my 91 year old mother. Which son or daughter is not concerned at the moment [...]

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Will the public trust the Covid-19 contact tracing app? Lessons from previous research

Will the public trust the Covid-19 contact tracing app? Lessons from previous research

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  • May 21, 2020

Helen Kennedy Gathering and analysing data about our movements and our health is a key strategy for governments around the world [...]

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Clap for Our Heroes: ‘Good’ Migrants, Wartime Rhetoric, and COVID-19

Clap for Our Heroes: ‘Good’ Migrants, Wartime Rhetoric, and COVID-19

  • By discoversociety
  • May 21, 2020

Meghan Tinsley and Neema Begum On 28th April, Boris Johnson, recently released from hospital and still visibly weakened from COVID-19, led [...]

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Disrupting transmission: what the coronavirus crisis tells us about the geography of the economy

Disrupting transmission: what the coronavirus crisis tells us about the geography of the economy

  • By discoversociety
  • May 17, 2020

Andrew Leyshon The exact moment when it began to dawn on the UK population that the Covid-19 crisis was not just [...]

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COVID-19 shows that we need to rethink dying at home

COVID-19 shows that we need to rethink dying at home

  • By discoversociety
  • May 15, 2020

Renske Visser “Too many people are dying in hospital against their wishes” reads an article headline in the Guardian from 2010.  [...]

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Race, intersectionality and Covid-19

Race, intersectionality and Covid-19

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  • May 15, 2020

Ashlee Christoffersen The disproportionate impacts of Covid-19 on Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) people in the UK (both within and [...]

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When State Racism and Austerity Meet the Pandemic: The Death of a Syrian Refugee in Hotel Detention

When State Racism and Austerity Meet the Pandemic: The Death of a Syrian Refugee in Hotel Detention

  • By discoversociety
  • May 14, 2020

Smina Akhtar Several newspapers including the National reported that on Tuesday 5 May 2020 Adnan Olbeh, a 30 year old refugee [...]

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It could happen here

It could happen here

  • By discoversociety
  • May 14, 2020

Sophie Harman It couldn’t happen here. A one-off event, at first as big as the 2008 financial crisis, and then equal [...]

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