Stephen Connelly A number of vice chancellors have claimed that they are constrained in how they can approach the financial impact of the Covid-19 pandemic by financial agreements. This means that they wouldn’t be able to cover losses using existing reserves [...]

Hannah Battersby I recently shared an article on Facebook which discussed the link between the human consumption of animals and the emergence of disease. This connection is well-documented and is being discussed frequently right now, so I was surprised at the [...]

Tony V Pham Non-anthropologists sometimes mythologize ethnography as the alluring product of lone wolf research. In preparation for an upcoming year of Fogarty International Center funded ethnographic research, I soaked-in the voluminous ethnography which captured the intersection between Nepali traditional healers [...]

Su-ming Khoo and Mayara Floss A shadow hangs over the struggle to understand the COVID-19 pandemic’s different problems – a shadow of necropolitics that puts some people and risks in the obscure background, while others are highlighted, in the foreground. Social [...]

Ali M. Kassem On March 15, 2020, the Lebanese government announced a nationwide full-lockdown to curb the coronavirus. A few weeks later, campaigns demanding repatriation flights for Lebanese citizens eager to return to the country gained wide momentum. By early April, the [...]

Simon J. Williams and Jonathan Gabe Much has already been written and spoken about the impact of the coronavirus crisis on higher education, not least the financial impacts, the implications for inequalities within the system, the consequences for students, and the [...]

Simon J Williams and Jonathan Gabe In Part I of this post we considered the rapid switch to online teaching and how this connects to wider trends and transformations sweeping through the academy. In Part II we consider what the likely [...]

Linzi Ladlow, Laura Way and Anna Tarrant Covid-19 has exposed and heightened deep inequalities in our society. Social class, gender, ethnicity and age shape the ways people are experiencing the crisis. Here we consider these intersections, with a spotlight on young [...]

Martin Shaw As the fall-out continues from the UK’s disastrous pandemic policy-making in the first quarter of 2020, which has led to date to 63,000 excess deaths, it is vital that British sociology and politics academics provide accurate critical analyses. Sir [...]

Simina Dragos On the evening of the 19th of April – Easter Sunday for many Romanians – a single mum and her children were watching Titanic in their bed. Suddenly, policemen stormed their house, physically aggressed the mother and pushed her [...]

Verity Aiken COVID19, once described as a great leveller, has consistently and incrementally revealed that our exposure to the virus and its related risks are anything but equal. The inequities that have been uncomfortably unveiled during the pandemic point to, in [...]

Sarah Ball and Brian Head They go by a variety of names; nudge units, behavioural insights teams and behavioural economics teams. However, they all owe a debt to the pioneering work of the Behavioural Insights Team (BIT) in the United Kingdom [...]

Alessio D’Angelo The last few weeks have seen schools move to the very centre of the British coronavirus debate. Between confusing ministerial guidelines, unconvincing political spin and teacher unions’ reservations, some of the most vulnerable have been completely forgotten: migrant and [...]

Jim Rogers  I am concerned for my 91 year old mother. Which son or daughter is not concerned at the moment for the welfare of an elderly parent? We know that so far at least 12,526 people have died from COVID [...]

Helen Kennedy Gathering and analysing data about our movements and our health is a key strategy for governments around the world attempting to manage the coronavirus pandemic. In the UK, the government has delayed until June the launch of a contact [...]

Meghan Tinsley and Neema Begum On 28th April, Boris Johnson, recently released from hospital and still visibly weakened from COVID-19, led a nationwide minute of silence to commemorate NHS workers who had died during the pandemic. The minute of silence, which [...]

Andrew Leyshon The exact moment when it began to dawn on the UK population that the Covid-19 crisis was not just another case of seasonal flu but rather a crisis that was both serious and fundamentally ‘way-of-life altering’ is a point [...]

Renske Visser “Too many people are dying in hospital against their wishes” reads an article headline in the Guardian from 2010.  In 2018 the same newspaper reports a call for NHS to do more to help terminally ill people die at [...]

Ashlee Christoffersen The disproportionate impacts of Covid-19 on Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) people in the UK (both within and outwith the medical professions) have sparked critical commentary, an evidence submission, and an official inquiry (headed by a ‘controversial’ figure [...]

Smina Akhtar Several newspapers including the National reported that on Tuesday 5 May 2020 Adnan Olbeh, a 30 year old refugee from Syria, died in a Glasgow hotel, emergency services were called but were unable to revive him. Adnan was one [...]