Animal care continues during COVID-19, writes Ranald Leask
While human medicine takes centre stage, vets, vet nurses and researchers dedicated to caring for our pets and livestock, continue…
Authorities turned a blind eye to Nepali migrant workers, writes Radha Adhikari
In recent months, people’s mobility has been synonymous with the transmission of Coronavirus, and the Covid-19 pandemic has had a…
Eastern Europe got the lockdown responses to COVID-19 right, writes Igor Rudan
Why did Croatia, Slovenia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia, Bulgaria, Hungary, Serbia and Ukraine respond much better than other…
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…
Edinburgh symposium shows anthropology can help us understand the social dynamics of COVID-19, writes Ritti Soncco
On 27 April 2020, the Students of Medical Anthropology (SoMA), a student-body subgroup of the Edinburgh Centre for Medical Anthropology…
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…
Children and young people aged 5-18 years should stay active. Here’s why, write Samantha Fawkner, Ailsa Niven, Steven Hanson, Chloë Williams & Coral L Hanson
Researchers from the Physical Activity for Health Research Centre (PAHRC) in Moray House School of Education and Sport have been…
The needs of public health and the economy need to be finely balanced during the pandemic, write Farah Huzair and Joyce Tait
Our work on previous emerging infectious diseases has built up a wealth of knowledge that we are bringing to bear…
COVID-19 reveals the politics of xenophobia in real-time, writes Janet E Perkins
Pseudonyms have been used for all people and places in order to protect the identity and anonymity of individuals “Khulna’s…
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…
The return of the expert, by Christina Boswell
One of the striking aspects of the Covid-19 crisis in the UK has been the apparent rehabilitation of the expert….
