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By Pascale Aebischer This project aims to provide a roadmap for local and regional companies that will enable them to bring furloughed staff back onto their payroll and develop new ways of working, in terms of administration and creative output, that are less building-dependent and that enable flexible modes of working to mitigate the impacts […]

By: Karen Mattick, Jason Hancock and Daniele Carrieri This project explores the experience of ‘the class of COVID’ new medical graduates who are starting work in the UK during the COVID-19 crisis. It is led by Newcastle University School of Medical Education, with colleagues from Exeter University, Plymouth University and Queen’s University Belfast. It is […]

By Luna Dolezal Social distancing has dislodged all human bodies from the usual taken-for-granted fabric of embodied social relations, leading to a repertoire of interaction rituals that are increasingly dominated by fear and mistrust. In this article, I explore some of the experiential consequences of social distancing, considering face-to-face interaction and interactions mediated by telepresence […]

By Sonia Oreffice We investigate gender differences across socioeconomic and wellbeing dimensions after three months of lockdown in the UK, using an online sample of approximately 1,500 Prolific respondents representative of the population with regards to age, sex and ethnicity. We find: Women’s mental health is worse than men’s. Women are more concerned about getting […]

By Catherine Caine The UK is currently facing unprecedented times as Covid-19 has forced the country into lockdown. However, the recent development consent application from EDF Energy for the Sizewell C Nuclear Power Station provides an opportunity for the planning sector to begin to return to normal. This opinion considers whether it is possible to achieve full public […]