In category: Health and Wellbeing

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 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 Gemma Lucas Within my wider project on well-being and gendered body shame, I am preparing a series of short essays exploring  the reconfiguration of bodily capacities and body-geographies during the pandemic, as the use well shaming rhetoric, its relationship to neoliberalism, and its impact on social inequality. Further information: Link  

By Dave Richards and colleagues Nursing care is hugely important to people in hospital. Nurses help people with eating, drinking, going to the toilet, skin care, moving, keeping clean, breathing, communication and mental wellbeing. Nursing care makes a significant difference to the way people experience being in hospital and to their recovery. For people with COVID-19 […]

By Aimee Murray Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has been cited as the most significant threat to the global health and global economy in recent years, but is now likely to be eclipsed by COVID-19 for some time. However, the emergence of COVID-19 also presents some important consequences for the development of AMR. My work highlights how […]

By Daniele Carrieri A recent WHO declaration reports that over 95% of COVID-19 related deaths in the European Region (currently the epicentre of the pandemic alongside with North America) occurred in people older than 60 years. Elaborating on these figures, we make a clear statement to reinforce the protection of each nation’s older adults and to […]

By Angela Cassidy As humanity meets, identifies and struggles to understand the SARS-CoV-2 virus, scientific and societal understandings of the disease it causes (COVID-19) are rapidly changing. Scientific research, clinical treatments, policy/politics, and wider social representations of this completely new disease are already being framed in terms of several diseases we already know, including viral […]