Jacqueline Sanchez Taylor I was recently one of three middle-aged students to attend an outdoors, socially distanced yoga class in the countryside near my home in Somerset. We set out our mats and before the class started, the teacher, a white [...]

Sally Tomlinson and Danny Dorling It’s a pity that in early 2020 the Conservative party and its leader were not more alert. Greek scholar Boris Johnson should have known that hubris – excessive pride and boasting – annoys the Gods [...]

Mariel Vilella The arrival of the waste truck on our street has become one of the most exciting weekly events for my son during the lockdown: a big machine engulfing stuff from bins, bright lights, workers wearing high-vis and waving to [...]

Ranjana Das and Paul Hodkinson For International Fathers Mental Health Day 2020, we reflect on findings from our forthcoming book on new fathers, mental health and digital communication - and on recent research by one of us on the experience of [...]

Khyati Tripathi It was just the other day that an advertisement in my inbox caught my eye. It was about the colorful ‘stylish’ masks with a caption ‘let’s make it a part of your wardrobe’.  Earlier I had been intrigued by [...]

Debbie Samaniego and Felix Mantz On June 3, Logan, a town in Cache Valley approximately one hour north of Salt Lake City (Utah), was identified as the number one COVID-19 hotspot in the USA. Cache Valley has a population of approximately 128,000 [...]

Nik Brown It hardly needs pointing out that Covid-19 has fundamentally changed the world around us. This is a pandemic visibly etched in unfamiliar markings on pavements and in stores. Public signs command us to observe the two-metre rule, to wash [...]

Emma Kirby, Erica Borgstrom and John I MacArtney For the past few months, daily headlines and websites have tracked the development and progress of COVID-19. The number of reported deaths across and within countries dominates the headlines. Scientists, clinicians, and [...]

Matías Acosta and Matías Nestore The far-reaching economic impact of the COVID-19 crisis has been highlighted in the past few weeks. The International Labour Organization (ILO) estimates that the increase in global unemployment could reach 13 million people. Among those economically affected [...]

Maru Mormina As I write this, the world is still engulfed in the Covid-19 outbreak, most of us live under some form of lockdown  and over 300,000 lives have been lost worldwide. The good news is that rates of infections are [...]

Isabelle Darmon A pandemic, perhaps more than any other disaster, is a philanthrocapitalist’s hunting ground. Bill Gates, Michael Bloomberg, Jeff Bezos, Eric Schmidt and co are everywhere to be seen, whether with their philanthropic or with their business cap on – [...]

Sophie Yarker Critical infrastructure only becomes visible in its absence. We are only aware of power supplies when there is a shortage, and only typically notice roads when they are poorly maintained.  Our social infrastructure and the shared spaces where we [...]

Andrew Wallace Covid-19 has scrambled all our worlds and the meshing of private lives with public troubles has never been clearer. Rebecca Solnit has written of the emotional ‘terra incognita’ that crisis conditions can elicit but proposes that, ultimately, hope wins [...]

AbdouMaliq Simone In Jamaican patois, “massive” has two countervailing meanings. On the one hand, it means an inordinate lack of sensitivity to the real conditions taking place, a sense of extreme self-inflation beyond reason. On the other, it means a collectivity [...]

Giacomo Orsini The COVID-19 pandemic should have been a dream for anti-migrant politicians – what they had been unable to realize was suddenly possible in the corona crisis. The pandemic succeeded in closing down borders and denying access to asylum. Today, [...]

Michael Calnan, Simon J Williams and Jonathan Gabe Much has already been written on trust in the social sciences, and why trust matters in social relations, but how are these trust relations playing out in the current Covid crisis? In what [...]

Giulia De Togni, Nicola Boydell, Sarah Chan, Sonja Erikainen, Andrea Ford, Agomoni Ganguli-Mitra, David Lawrence, Catherine Montgomery, Martyn Pickersgill, Rebecca Richards, Nayha Sethi, Julia Swallow For the next phase of the COVID-19 response, some governments - including those of Chile, Germany, [...]

Rogério Gimenes Giugliano In the midst of the global pandemic and the inevitable economic fallout that comes with it, Brazil is experiencing an acute political crisis. The dramatic humanitarian health crisis, deserving of the nation's full attention, has given way to [...]

Louise Reardon and Greg Marsden At the height of the pandemic in the UK, the government order was to ‘stay home, protect the National Health Service, save lives’. The public were told not to travel to their place of work unless [...]

A. Verena Eireiner Novel challenges call for creative solutions. As the COVID-19 pandemic keeps a tight grip on societies and economies around the world, researchers are racing to develop vaccines and treatments. But not just scientists are working on a cure [...]