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By Fred Cooper A guest post in the blog series on ‘Solitude in the Time of COVID-19‘ from historian Fred Cooper, who offers a path through some contexts for and responses to the current crisis. https://solitudes.qmul.ac.uk/blog/covid-19-and-the-loneliness-crisis/  

By Charlotte Jones In collaboration with workers, trade unions and local campaigns, this project responds to rapidly changing circumstances in the hospitality sector since the UK government began to ease the national lockdown in July 2020. Due to concerns about the COVID-19 transmission risks involved in visiting public venues, the safe preparation and maintenance of these […]

By Fred Cooper and Charlotte Jones In this article Charlotte Jones and Fred Cooper argue that Covid-19 seems to be creating the conditions for new extremes of detachment and isolation amongst students. Covid-19 has amplified student loneliness and distress

By Fred Cooper and Charlotte Jones A project on loneliness and mental health in collaboration with student co-researchers, most recently in the charged and altered context of the Covid-19 pandemic. Together researchers and students developed a creative journaling project for the sharing of experiences and artistic responses to the lockdown. https://wcceh.org/projects/beacon-loneliness-and-community/

By Olly Clabburn, Fred Cooper, and Charlotte Jones lockdownblues.co.uk A website and virtual scrapbook for the sharing of experiences and observations on loneliness and isolation before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown. The project focuses on the South West of England, but contributions are also welcome from further afield.  

By David Houston Jones The need to visualise COVID-19 has permeated official coverage, frequently in the form of charts showing daily infection growth rates and deaths. The need to reduce the infection rate has been expressed in terms of flattening the ‘curve’ or, for Boris Johnson, of the attempt to ‘squash the sombrero’. News coverage […]