Here you find summaries of our sessions, written by our founder David Christie
The pandemic has, at least temporarily, devastated the arts sector in the UK. Theatres and cinemas have closed, possibly never to reopen; galleries, museums and libraries have shuttered their doors or limited access, and gigs, ...
While the course of the pandemic in Europe and America has been afforded blanket coverage, its potentially far greater impact on the Global South has received far less attention. Yet in the number of cases ...
After the failure at the pilot phase of the UK government’s first track and trace app, the new ‘NHS covid-19 Track and Trace App’, costing an estimated at £35 million, was launched nationwide on September ...
The moment in history that the covid-19 pandemic crashed in upon, was already one undergoing rapid technological change. The existence of the internet both ensured the rapid global awareness of the virus’ very existence, and ...
Although the rapid spread of Covid-19 elicited a global health emergency, by August 2020 the economic crisis that has followed in its wake looks likely to have a much broader and more lasting impact. The ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
