Covid and Feminisms

On March 25th 2021, the Pandemic Perspectives group invited PGR Feminisms to lead a session on ‘Covid and Feminisms’. Founded by Alice Seville and Marie Allegre (PhD literature researchers University of Birmingham) and co-ran with ...

Protest and the Pandemic

During the pandemic, the British government passed the Coronavirus Act 2020 and the Health Protection (Coronavirus) Regulations, both of which restricted the right of assembly and therefore the right to protest. In enforcing these restrictions, ...

Covid and Language

Language has changed under covid. In Britain, the Oxford English Dictionary in July 2020 added a special update to its customary quarterly updates of new words to document the impact of the pandemic on on ...

Covid and Time

To what degree has the Pandemic altered our perception of time? For many the sense of time progressing has ceased, replaced by an ‘endless’, looping, repetitive sense of time. How widespread is this feeling and ...

Covid and disability

Two-thirds of the people who have died from Covid-19 have had disabilities. Despite this chilling statistic, the impact of the pandemic on disabled people as a group is rarely acknowledged, at best treated as an ...