In category: Care and Communities

By Gemma Lucas, Jennifer Lea, Chloe Asker Through the use of vignettes, this chapter draws on our personal, auto-ethnographic and everyday experiences to attend to bodily, affective and atmospheric (re)configurations under lockdown in the COVID-19 pandemic whilst speculating upon the usefulness of thinking with non-representational theories at this time. Drawing on our own everyday experiences […]

By Felicity Thomas The International Labour Organization (ILO) recently warned of an ‘unsustainable global care crisis’, indicating that by 2030, the number of people needing care will reach 2.3 billion (Addati et al. 2018). Today, the majority of care practices are socially, culturally, economically and ecologically unsustainable. This is in large part because of a […]

By Anne Barlow New COVID-19 measures restricting our freedom to go out are bound to put couple relationships under pressure, even when family members are not ill. Yet keeping your closest relationships strong is even more important in a time of crisis. Using findings on what drives long-term thriving relationships and the 10 critical questions […]

By Anne Barlow and Jan Ewing Anne Barlow and Jan Ewing have been invited by the Ministry of Justice to work with them and a range of other agencies including CAFCASS, children’s services providers and key relationship charities to assist them to improve their website relating to family separation, in anticipation of a sharp rise during […]

By Susan Molyneux-Hodgson During lock-down, our team has been active and reflected on the lessons from radiation protection, emergencies in Chernobyl and Fukushima and drawn insights from a variety of top experts on radiation protection and nuclear or radiological emergency situations. We have hosted a series webinars, with recordings freely available, where experts have reflected […]

By Christopher Southgate The project ‘Tragedies and Christian Congregations’, directed by Professor Chris Southgate in the Department of Theology and Religion, has been exploring how communities react to shock-events since 2016. Specifically: how can Christian ministers respond sensitively and constructively when people’s framework of meaning has been torn apart, whether by fire, flood, terrorism, or […]

By Sonia Oreffice and Climent Quintana-Domeque Amid the COVID-19 crisis in the United Kingdom, we formulated specific hypotheses and questions that were pre-registered in AsPredicted (#38962) on 10 April 2020. We launched an online survey (containing an experiment) in Prolific on a sample of the UK general population representative by age, sex and ethnicity on 11 […]

By Robin Durie and Katrina Wyatt The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic will be felt most acutely in our most disadvantaged communities. Recognition of this is at the core of a major Horizon Scanning exercise commissioned by Devon and Cornwall Constabulary. A key part of this work is devoted to Police-Community Relations, looking specifically at […]

By Louise Lawrence Louise Lawrence has been working on a research project entitled, “Compassionate Campuses: Refiguring Universities in an Age of Neoliberalism,” focusing on institutional values, student wellbeing, northern and southern epistemologies and epistemic injustice, student wellbeing, and safeguarding around staff-student relationships. As COVID-19 rapidly spread throughout the world, certain themes in the project were […]

By João Florêncio Soon after the COVID-19 pandemic reached Europe, triggering a variety of national public health responses throughout the continent, several theorists and philosophers started publishing texts online and in printed media, trying to make sense of what had become a planetary public health event due to the scale of its geographical reach, its […]