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By Manuela Barreto Loneliness is a widely-reported experience internationally; but while it is common, it is often stigmatised, and can lead to mental health problems. We also know from recent research that loneliness has a lot to with age, gender, and culture – and that the stereotypes we have of isolated older people are not […]

By Kate Fisher and Rebecca Langlands Effervescent work with at-risk young people to produce profound works of art that are usually displayed in Radiant Gallery, the world’s only art gallery curated to a professional standard by children. The practice involves an intensive and intimate process of creative play (including with historical objects) and co-curation over […]

By Thibaud Deruelle Europe is among the regions most affected by COVID-19: the continent was designated in March 2020 as the new epicenter of the pandemic and Europe’s recovery strategy to the COVID-19 crisis seems to be threatened by a lack of solidarity. This presentation discusses how the EU governance system has – so far […]

By Neil Adger The COVID-19 pandemic is producing substantial changes in the practices and experiences of migration and mobility. The personal transition of everyone who moves during their lifetime and how such transitions affect the sustainability of societies are being radically altered. Research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council  and Belmont forum (projectMISTY.org) […]

By Catherine Leyshon and Jen Siggs Healthy Ageing through Innovation in Rural Europe (HAIRE) is a project operating in eight rural communities – two each in Belgium, France, the Netherlands and the UK (Cornwall and East Sussex) –that seeks to address loneliness and isolation in rural areas, not least in the context of COVID-19.  The […]

By Mark Jackson As the COVID-19 pandemic continues with little sign of abating, it is clear that measures to reduce transmission come with very high social and economic costs. Strategies are now changing with those costs in mind, and the WHO has recommended that diverse communities should be engaged as this transition takes place. In […]

By Ben Hudson 2020 has been a year of global crises. In the early months, Brexit, forced migration and climate change all vied for dominance of the news streams. As global, civic institutions, these crises all impact universities in one way or another. Yet, none come close to the impact that COVID-19 is presently having […]

“In this blog post, we want to zoom in on the impacts that the COVID-19 pandemic and the lockdown restrictions have had on forests and populations at different altitudinal gradients in the eastern Andean forest of Colombia. We will in this text concentrate on two areas along with the central-eastern Andes mountain range, areas where […]

For many of us, our experience of the COVID-19 crisis has been largely defined by experiences of absence — including the absence of everyday routines and possibilities for social interaction that we normally take for granted. In this work, we explore loneliness as an emotion that essentially concerns absence, or the feeling that certain social […]

The time of COVID-19 represents a distinct, but currently under-defined and under-theorised, temporal moment. Using semiotic methods, this paper examines how the mechanical actions of the virus, through becoming social, create a new viral time, heralding an already-arrived new historical epoch. This epoch, which is simultaneously both homogenous and undifferentiated at one tempo, and supercharged […]