Targets, trust and COVID-19 testing, by Christina Boswell
Political scrutiny of the UK’s management of COVID-19 has recently revolved around an ambitious target the government set for itself:…
As countries ramp-up COVID-19 tests, Edinburgh University researchers discuss the expectations and values of diagnostics, writes Aphaluck Bhatiasevi
“You cannot fight a fire blindfolded. And we cannot stop this pandemic if we don’t know who is infected. We…
Don’t touch your face! The triggers, isolation and social connections of body-focused repetitive behaviours during COVID-19, by Bridget Bradley
As an anthropologist who researches a mental health disorder that I also suffer from, I take this opportunity to reflect…
COVID-19 and gender-based violence in conflict: new challenges and persistent problems, writes Catherine O’Rourke
Peace is not just the absence of war. Many women under lockdown for #COVID19 face violence where they should be…
COVID-19, emergency legislation and sunset clauses, by Sean Molloy
The UK’s Coronavirus Act 2020 affords the UK government new powers in attempt to mitigate the effects of the COVID-19…
COVID-19 and violent conflict: responding to predictable unpredictability, by Christine Bell
The World Health Organization is working on the basis that death rates rise when COVID-19 casualties exceed domestic health service capacity. The response…
How COVID-19 is used to stop lone child refugees from joining families in the UK, writes Nasar Meer
The UK and other countries are using the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak as an excuse to prevent even the most vulnerable…
What do abortion pills mean in a pandemic, asks Leah Eades
Like many doctoral students, my research is currently in limbo. I was meant to be moving to Ireland in September…
Edinburgh based anthropologist and artist auctions her painting to raise funds for the NHS, writes Aphaluck Bhatiasevi
Inês-Hermione Mulford is a resident artist at the Royal College of Surgeons. She graduated form the University of Edinburgh in…
The UK COVID-19 response ignores impact of social inequalities, by Nasar Meer, Kaveri Qureshi, Ben Kasstan and Sarah Hill
In April 2020, National Health Service (NHS) England and Public Health England launched an inquiry into the disproportionate impact of…
Edinburgh based sociologists document their social transformation by the COVID-19 pandemic to create new sociological knowledge, writes Aphaluck Bhatiasevi
As sociologists voice out on how the COVID-19 lockdown is impacting societies across the world by transforming the social relations…
Edinburgh Infectious Diseases members make COVID-19 information accessible in over twenty languages, writes Hilary Snaith
COVID-19 is affecting the great majority of people on the planet in one way or another and information (fact and…
The many masks of a lockdown, by Krithika Srinivasan
The ways in which a ‘non-discriminatory’ virus can very quickly evolve into a disease of the poor Communicable diseases, we…
Lockdowns save, lockdowns kill: valuing life after coronashock, writes Stefan Ecks
The scale and severity of the coronavirus pandemic is a shock to health systems. It is a shock to economies…
Recognising childrens’ rights in responses to COVID-19, by Aphaluck Bhatiasevi
We are all trying our best to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic crisis, be it from governments seeking to protect…
For the ‘at-risk’ or vulnerable COVID-19 group: staying or becoming active during social distancing , by Lis Neubeck, Sheona McHale, Chloe Williamson, Paul Kelly, Alice Pearsons, Steven Hanson & Carol Hanson
During COVID-19, the World Health Organisation has defined vulnerable groups as those aged over 60 years (regardless of health condition),…
The science of quarantine and the social life of COVID-19, writes Aphaluck Bhatiasevi
So much has been happening in the last months. Since the WHO declared the coronavirus a global pandemic on 11th…
Interview of Agomoni Ganguli Mitra on pandemic related social inequalities by University of Oxford’s Practical Ethics channel
Is the Coronavirus Pandemic Worse for Women? Dr Agomoni Ganguli Mitra of the University of Edinburgh’s Law School talks about…
How the social and behavioural sciences can help us beat the pandemic, writes Gowri Iyer and Nanda Kishore Kannuri
The social and behavioural sciences (SBS) in public health have had an essential but relatively unacknowledged role since the beginning…
Edinburgh Infectious Diseases held a workshop to highlight research carried out in the University of Edinburgh and NHS Lothian in response to the COVID-19 pandemic
The aim of the workshop held on 25th March 2020, was to highlight research being carried out in the University…
