Jan Grzymski The world has entered a time of global epidemic. Albert Camus once wrote that ‘there have been as many plagues as wars in history; yet plagues and wars always take people by surprise.’ We have been entirely unprepared for [...]

Neil Vallelly Neoliberalism is under threat. This much is clear by the huge government interventions in national economies across the globe in recent weeks. However, it is not the shifting economic landscape that threatens neoliberalism’s existence. After all, these interventions will [...]

Benjamin Weil As the coronavirus pandemic continues to restructure our day-to-day lives, many have turned to the ongoing HIV/AIDS pandemic in search of meaning, clarity, and, quite possibly, a coherent politics. While the utility of HIV/AIDS as an extended analogy for [...]

Kim Allen, Kirsty Finn, Nicola Ingram As COVID-19 grips the world, the UK government have been labelled as slow to respond; their public messages delayed and confused. Moreover the UK has stood apart from its European neighbours, seemingly refusing to learn [...]

Nasar Meer In all the risk and uncertainty accompanying Covid-19, it is easy to forget safety is a relative concept. For the millions of displaced migrants and refugees, in official camps and informal settlements, the pandemic poses a terrifying threat that [...]

Yasmin Gunaratnam “Most of my dad’s time was dedicated towards his family, and the rest of that time was dedicated towards his profession”. “He did not seek the praise and approval of others, he was satisfied by viewing the positive effects of [...]

Leoni Connah At the time of writing, 634,835 people have been confirmed to have Covid-19 also known as “Coronavirus”. 29,957 deaths have been confirmed from the pandemic and the situation is worsening as it spreads across the globe. This is an [...]

Catherine Price  Everyone needs food. It is an intimate part of everyday life, and as well as being a biological necessity, it is also an important aspect of society. When purchasing or consuming food, the last thing on anyone’s mind is [...]

Ramya K Tella The global spread of COVID-19 has drawn attention to the need for governments to take action with a sense of urgency. India was formally placed under a 21-day lockdown on the 25th of March. While the lockdown, as [...]

Oliver Lewis A group of UN experts has demanded that governments “remain steadfast in maintaining a human rights-based approach to regulating this pandemic”. What does that mean about the rights and safety of disabled people, including those with intellectual disabilities living in [...]

Alf Gunvald Nilsen On December 31 last year, as China first alerted the WHO about several cases of unusual pneumonia in the port city of Wuhan, India was in the throes of the largest protests the country had witnessed since Narendra [...]

Helen Holmes and Mike Shaver We have all seen or read the news reports – panic buying hand sanitiser, rationing antibacterial wipes; extortionate prices for protective masks on the internet; Starbucks and other cafes banning the use of personal cups in [...]

David Waltner-Toews, Annibale Biggeri, Bruna De Marchi, Silvio Funtowicz, Mario Giampietro, Martin O'Connor, Jerome R. Ravetz, Andrea Saltelli, and Jeroen P. van der Sluijs In addressing the local pandemics science has never seemed more needed and useful, while at the same [...]

Roderick Condon The host on which the parasite feeds has contracted a virus. The parasite must attack the virus to preserve the host. But, can the host save itself from both? With the Covid-19 pandemic, society is in crisis. By extension, neoliberal [...]

Rebecca Ye The recent spread of COVID-19 and its effects on student mobility captures the complexities of an increasingly transnational field of higher education. More specifically, it has brought to the fore the problem of protection of student migrants in globalised [...]

Brian McDonough We are only at the start of the coronavirus pandemic, yet signs of the economic consequences to this global killer are already far greater than the economic recession of 2008. It does not take an economist, or sociologist, to [...]

Nick J Fox The media coverage of the Covid19 outbreak has addressed in detail the biological and epidemiological aspects of the virus. Less attention has been paid to the social, economic and political factors that have enabled the coronavirus to [...]

Ranjana Das Over the last couple of years, I have researched the role of communication technologies in the context of mental health and wellbeing for mothers and fathers in the perinatal period (just before and after having a baby). The current [...]

Hannah Bradby I’ve had a cough for all of the year 2020. It started on January 1st,  after sharing Christmas meals and their preparation with an explosively sneezing brother.  In my family we like to blame our infections on a particular [...]

John Holmwood The Government’s policy for higher education in England (and to a lesser extent in the other devolved jurisdictions in the United Kingdom) has been to create a market in higher education. Nowhere has the government – or, indeed, university [...]