14 July 2020 Why Londoners in the blitz accepted face masks to prevent infection – unlike today’s objectors As COVID-19 spread in Britain, journalists and politicians took to comparing the pandemic to the…
14 July 2020 Coronavirus: how Brazil became the second worst affected country in the world The COVID-19 pandemic has stress-tested countries, economies and political systems like never…
9 July 2020 Is the Government actively undermining British democracy? The Government’s actions over Covid, Brexit etc suggest a desire to govern not through parliamentary…
7 July 2020 Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro has coronavirus – what it could mean for him politically What political questions's does President Bolsonaro's COVID diagnosis raise?
15 June 2020 Responding to COVID-19 in an area of increasingly violent insurgency and inadequate government support The pandemic is exposing the urgent need to rethink humanitarian responses in Mozambique.
15 June 2020 Government must not repeat the mistakes of last financial crisis Dr Karlygash Kuralbayeva looks at the options available to ministers bracing for an economic storm
25 June 2020 Covid-19 and Pilgrimage: Why Saudi Arabia took so long to take a decision about this year’s Hajj Dr Carool Kersten, Islamic Scholar, writes about the uncertainty looming over this year’s Hajj…
19 June 2020 How militaries around the world joined the battle against Covid-19 A blog piece from the School of Security Studies around the military response to Covid-19
17 June 2020 Learning to be less surprised by surprises like Covid-19 Less surprised by surprises: Intelligence and timelier decisions can help to raise warnings and…
16 June 2020 Global poverty: coronavirus could drive it up for the first time since the 1990s New research shows the economic impact of COVID-19 could shift global poverty towards middle-income…
5 June 2020 The end of the ’Golden era’? What Covid-19 means for UK-China relations Now more than ever the UK needs a strategy towards China that weighs up the economic benefits with…
5 June 2020 COVID-19 & Africa: Analogue Higher Education, digital generation ‘Wale Ismail looks at the impact of COVID-19 on higher education in Sub Saharan Africa and what it…
2 June 2020 Fighting a battle on two fronts: How Ukraine’s military tackles coronavirus in a conflict zone Given its continued fight to secure State borders in the fact of Russian aggression, Covid-19 is not…
29 May 2020 How the first modern pandemic hit key workers first Professor David Green explores how the 1889 outbreak of influenza impacted postal workers in the…
27 May 2020 Women in favelas step up during inadequate COVID-19 government response Despite adversity, women of the 'slums' of Rio de Janeiro are picking up the slack in an effort to…
21 May 2020 East Asia shows the way out of lockdown Technology and legal frameworks can help ease lockdown and prepare for a possible second wave
20 May 2020 Feeling alert? Where the UK government’s new coronavirus campaign went wrong Boris Johnson announces his new plan, to widespread confusion.
14 May 2020 Three ways people are reacting to coronavirus: ’accepting’, ’suffering’ and ’resisting’ How the UK is coping with life under lockdown
19 May 2020 How unravelling housing standards have contributed to the spread of COVID-19 in ’rich’ countries Dr Deborah Potts, from the Department of Geography, examines how we have forgotten past lessons when…
30 April 2020 COVID-19 and the conundrum of China-Africa relations The current pandemic could deepen the divide between the people and the ruling elite thanks to…
12 May 2020 What Covid-19 reveals about the UK’s capacity to deal with the changing character of warfare Resilience capacity in the UK has withered substantially since the Cold War. National crises…
22 April 2020 COVID-19: Why we should care about the impact on emerging economies COVID-19 demonstrates the UK’s mutual interest in supporting affected countries and communities.
5 May 2020 Digital innovation and social resilience: How can COVID-19 help us prepare for the next crisis? Dr Gregory Asmolov looks deeper at the hyper-local revolution and how it might help us prepare for…
4 May 2020 How COVID-19 might change the way we live and work for good Professor Phil Hubbard looks at whether the COVID-19 pandemic will reverse the recent trend of…
29 April 2020 How do you manage COVID-19 with a population density of 130,000 people per square kilometre? Kibera, one of the largest slums in Africa, is collating data during the pandemic that could shape…
1 June 2020 Informing the public debate on COVID-19 Academics from across the Faculty of Social Science & Public Policy are helping us all better…
6 May 2020 Learning from disasters and military operations to fight COVID-19 Dr Stefan Schilling looks at how teams rapidly assembled to fight COVID-19 could learn from past…
17 April 2020 Policymakers must be cautious with response to COVID-19 The COVID-19 pandemic is already having huge economic consequences around the globe, with many…
24 April 2020 The EU economic response to the COVID-19 crisis Professor Leila Simona Talani analyses the EU economic response to the COVID-19 crisis
9 April 2020 Understanding the impacts on society of COVID-19 How the Faculty of Social Science & Public Policy is helping us understand the huge societal shifts…
22 April 2020 What COVID-19 is teaching us about climate change Will the impact of the pandemic on emissions pave the way for the kind of global co-operation needed…
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