Stephanie Parsons Healthcare roles, especially nursing, have long been established as requiring extensive amounts of emotion work. This type of work requires healthcare professionals to employ various strategies to manage their own emotions and that of their patients. They are expected [...]

Nasar Meer, Kaveri Qureshi, Ben Kasstan and Sarah Hill In April 2020, NHS England and Public Health England launched an inquiry into the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on Black Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) communities. As we wait for the terms [...]

Tridibesh Dey and Mike Michael “As coronavirus bears down on society, single use plastic steps up in an unprecedented way”, argued the authors of an article, published on this platform last month. Indeed, whether as essential constituents of PPE (personal protective [...]

Stewart Lansley With livelihoods shattered and household incomes heading for unprecedented falls, attention needs to turn towards the vital question of post-crisis reconstruction. The Covid-19 crisis has already changed the terms of the debate about public policy and the way society [...]

Anna Barker and Andrew Smith One of the more surprising aspects of the COVID-19 lockdown in the UK has been the political and media attention dedicated to parks and green spaces. There seems to be a new awareness of the importance [...]

Marsha Rosengarten, Kari Lancaster, and Tim Rhodes Unlike any other potentially deadly viral infection, Covid-19 has required a contraction of living on a scale never seen before. Amidst the demands of ‘social distancing’ and ‘self-isolation’ and the uncertainty about how the UK [...]

Miqdad Asaria There is increasing concern that people from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) communities are being disproportionately impacted by COVID-19 in England. Over the first few weeks of this pandemic there have been several anecdotal reports to suggest that [...]

Mattias De Backer To the Italian sociologist Andrea Mubi Brighenti we owe the insight that reciprocal visibility, or “inter-visibility”, is one of the most important variables to determine if and to what extent a space is “public”. This becomes quite clear [...]

Katie Liston Have you wondered over this period of social distancing and ‘lockdown’ why some groups appear to comply with public health messages more than others? Or perhaps you have been struck by the absence, in mathematical modelling approaches especially, [...]

Lester K. Spence Even before the neoliberal turn, the high-tier US university has served as a hub for labor, as a research and development think tank, as well as a place of higher education. After the neoliberal turn, the university in [...]

Alice Butler-Warke and Caroline Hood Urban space is where social divisions, inequality and exclusion are rendered visible as certain bodies and groups of bodies are ushered out of the visible areas of cities and into suburbs or estates generally made invisible [...]

Hedvig Gröndal There has not been a general lockdown in Sweden due the corona pandemic, in stark contrast to many other European countries. In Sweden, primary schools and day care centres for children have remained open and so have shops and [...]

Su-ming Khoo and Mayara Floss  March 23rd, 2020, a very hot day. The sun was coming in through the window and the air-conditioner had to stay off as a preventive measure so Mayara was already sweating in her clothes. She moved [...]

Zelalem Nardos Coronavirus (COVID-19) is radically reshaping lives globally whilst we are still learning about its impacts on human life with an assumption that everyone is equally at risk when it comes to this pandemic. However, data are beginning to emerge [...]

Geoff Payne and Eric Harrison The recent Daily Telegraph headline (09.03.2020), 'Coronavirus has united a nation divided by Brexit and Meghan', is not quite as crazy as it first seems. Covid-19 has indeed changed life in Britain (if not quite in [...]

Aisha K. Gill While the COVID-19 pandemic is having—and will undoubtedly continue to have—significant public health consequences across the globe, for many women and girls, the consequences stretch far beyond the risk of contracting the disease. Evidence from Brazil, China, Germany, Greece, [...]

Andy Jolly Following campaigning from civil society organisations, including NELMA and Hackney Migrant Centre, the UK government has agreed to extend eligibility for Free School Meals to people with No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF) during the Covid-19 pandemic. The NRPF rule [...]

Evelyn Corrado The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic lockdown has exposed inequalities in our societies. As we reflect on how to move forward, it is crucial to acknowledge that the lockdown has disadvantaged BAME (Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic) students more as they [...]

Craig Berry This week’s focus of my archaeological research has been a review of the religious beliefs of the species in the immediate pre-apocalyptic period. This includes cataloguing last month’s excavation and analysis of data recovered in recent finds, focused on [...]

Ai Yu Aeschylus, writer of ancient Greek tragedies, once wrote: “here is nothing certain in a man’s life except this, that he must lose it”. Beyond death’s inevitability, however, is there anything else we can say about it, in view of [...]