Covid-19 and the Cities
Perhaps the most significant long-term effect of the pandemic will be on the very nature of the cities we live in. During lockdown, deserted city centres temporarily became eerie post-apocalyptic stage sets, but the more ...
Month: August 2020
Meat and Pandemics: The surprising Link – Will Gildea
Explores the connection between industrial methods of meat production, human meat consumption and cross-species infection. A warning by philosopher Will Gildea published in the Ecologist
Some thoughts on academia post-covid – Richard Kendall
How will academia be effected by the pandemic? Online Conferences. International connections. New communities. Teaching and learning. Richard Kendall sees both opportunities and new obstacles. https://whoyayaya.wordpress.com/2020/06/10/some-thoughts-on-academia-post-lockdown/
Covid-19 The End of Homelessness?
By David Christie On 27 March 2020, Luke Hall, Minister for Local Government and Homelessness, sent a letter to local authorities instructing them that, in light of the coronavirus pandemic, it was ‘imperative that rough ...
Education
The impact of the pandemic on education seemed at first to be both obvious and short-term. After many confused and contradictory directives from the government, all schools in the United Kingdom were formally closed on ...
European Tourism
One of the most obvious changes brought about by the pandemic has been the dramatic change in the continent’s holiday plans. Under lockdown no travel was possible at all, and the only holiday stories in ...
Optimist or Pessimist?
The ‘Pandemic Perspectives’ academic discussion group has been arguing about the impact of the covid-19 since it was set up in April 2020 (see Group Membership section for participants and ethos). Given that worldwide deaths ...