Covid-19 and the Black Asian Minority Ethnic Healthcare Workforce, by Radha Adhikari
Disease pandemics in history have regularly brought social inequalities and prejudice back to the surface.[1] Marginalised and vulnerable groups such…
Edinburgh Law School creates animations to discuss structural injustice, denaturalized natural disasters, epistemic injustice, and the nature of emergencies
The following series is supported by the Wellcome Trust and led by Dr Agomoni Ganguli Mitra. All animations were created…
The NHS is a health system not a charity. It should be funded accordingly, writes Rebecca Richards
He walked his way into the hearts of a nation – one lap of his garden at a time. In…
Kat Smith, Sudeepa Abeysinghe and Christina Boswell reflect on the impact of COVID-19 in SKAPE seminar, by Cleo Davies
This blogpost is a summary of the SKAPE Seminar on the 24 June 2020 Kat Smith (Strathclyde), Sudeepa Abeysinghe (Social Policy, Edinburgh) and Christina Boswell (PIR, Edinburgh)…
Rethinking the house as a public health technology of preparedness, writes Imogen Bevan
The main public critique levelled at the UK government’s “Stay Home” campaign was its failure to be implemented fast enough,…
A gun for the end of the world, by Joe Anderson
As the coronavirus pandemic unfolds, I have watched gun rights organizations like the National Rifle Association (NRA) find a profound…
The Usher Institute organizes COVID-19 webinars to strengthen partnership, inform policy and bridge knowledge gaps, writes Aphaluck Bhatiasevi
The Usher Institute in the College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine at the University of Edinburgh has been organising weekly…
University staff and students help distribute food to those in need, writes Stuart Tooley
To mark Volunteers’ Week, Kirsteen Shields speaks about her work to co-ordinate volunteers to help local charity, Cyrenians. Shortages of…
Pandemics, COVID-19, and literary studies: past and present, by Nandini Sen
What made me write this essay: “For the past four years I have been writing a historical novel set in…
How physicians used contact tracing 500 years ago to control the bubonic plague, by Samuel Cohn and Mona O’Brien
Contact tracing has been remarkably successful at helping contain the COVID-19 pandemic in South Korea, Australia and Germany, as well…
South Africa’s gig drivers left alone at the wheel, writes Mohammad Amir Anwar
Drivers who use ride-hailing apps like Uber are getting little help from their companies and fall through the cracks of…
Local policing must adapt to cybercrime in the post-pandemic era, write Ben Collier, Shane Horgan, Richard Jones and Lynsay Shepherd
In a recent briefing paper on the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for cybercrime policing in Scotland commissioned by the…
University of Edinburgh launches the Digital Social Science Cluster to support social science research in times of the pandemic, write cluster leads Karen Gregory, Morgan Currie and Kate Miltner
The COVID-19 pandemic is increasing our reliance on the use of technology and digital platforms for education and research. From…
What the Spanish Flu can teach us about making face masks compulsory, writes Samuel Cohn
Should people be forced to wear face masks in public? That’s the question facing governments as more countries unwind their…
Homeschooling children with Additional Support Needs reveals the digital divide in Inclusive Digital Technologies, writes Paul Nisbet
Children and young people with disabilities or Additional Support Needs (ASN) and their families face particular challenges as a result…
Shielding and exit from lockdown: medical anthropologist Ian Harper asks why he should stay at home?
Last weekend I received a letter from the Scottish Government, dated 18 May 2020, stating: “The NHS has identified you……
Fake times and real life during the pandemic, by Angus Bancroft
One of the effects of our arm’s length social life is that we interact with a limited range of interactional…
The positive effects of COVID-19 and the social determinants of health: all in it together? By Sarah Hill, Sharon Friel and Jeff Collin
Policy responses to the pandemic need to take account of underlying social inequities We welcome Bryn Nelson’s analysis of the…
COVID-19 exposes the limits of debt-driven capitalism, writes Emilios Avgouleas
Economies based on high levels of leverage are inherently fragile and with no inbuilt resilience to withstand even mild shocks…
India’s informal economy, gender-based violence, and mental health challenges demand crucial inspection, write Nandini Sen, Anusua Singh Roy, Jayanta Bhattacharya, and Subrata Shankar Bagchi
Blog series Part 1: Covid 19 – A Crucial Inspection by Nandini Sen and colleagues The effects of Covid-19 have…
