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Displaying 15 of about 22 resultsFollowing the emergence of a novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) and its spread outside of China, Europe is now experiencing large epidemics. In response, many European countries have implemented unprecedented non-pharmaceutical interventions including case isolation, the closure of schools and universities, banning of mass gatherings and/or public events, a…
By Carina Fearnley
Alert systems need to be clear and easy for everyone to understand. Yet, to date, the UK’s national alert system has created confusion and been largely ignored.
Now, a second local alert level system has been introduced in England. I’m not convinced it will do any better. Other countries, from New Zealand to Vietnam to South Africa,…
By Siobhan Morris, Researcher, UCL and Olivia Stevenson, Head of Public Policy, UCL
If one thing is clear by now from the coronavirus pandemic, it is that the disease does not affect everyone equally.
Analysis from the Office for National Statistics starkly outlines that those living in areas with high levels of deprivation ar…
The concept of austerity featured prominently in the first round of hearings of the UK’s COVID inquiry, which has recently come to a close. Notably, former chancellor George Osborne claimed that austerity had a “positive” effect on the UK’s ability to withstand the pandemic.Our reading of the evidence is that the austerity policies initiated after 2010…
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Thank you for being part of The Manchester Briefing (TMB) on COVID-19: International lessons for local and national government recovery and renewal. We hope that the briefing supports your continued efforts to recover from COVID-19.
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The Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER) invites applications for a Post-Doctoral Research Associate or Senior Research Associate in the area of public policy for global risk.
This position has funding available until 30 November 2022 in the first instance. The (Senior) Research Associate will work on some of the most important topics…
The Manchester Briefing on COVID-19 is aimed at those who plan and implement recovery from COVID-19, including government emergency planners and resilience officers.
This issue shares lessons from:
Canada: on how to promote compassion in organisations;
UK: on relieving period poverty during COVID-19; on the closure of public toilets during COV…
By Jennifer Cole, Research Fellow in the Department of Geography, Royal Holloway
The exact place, time and variety of disease currently gripping the world could not have been predicted. Yet we knew a pandemic of some kind was likely to strike eventually, and many of its likely characteristics have been anticipated, discussed and prepared for over…
By James Nazroo and Laia Becares
We’ve known for some time that people from ethnic minorities in the UK are several times more likely to be admitted to hospital or die from COVID-19. A new report authored by Baroness Doreen Laurence and commissioned by the Labour Party has found that the disease has thrived among minority communities because of inequal…
By Zania Stamataki, Dominic Wilkinson, and François Balloux
Zania Stamataki, senior lecturer in viral immunology, University of Birmingham
We have worked flat out around the world since COVID struck, to develop, test and deploy the fastest vaccines in the history of humankind. Immunity to coronavirus after natural infection is short-lived, but the app…
The civil society sector is experiencing pressure and strain unlike it has experienced before, under the COVID-19 pandemic. To explore how the sector has responded, engaged and acted this past year, the All India Disaster Mitigation Institute and Accountable Now have published a special accountability issue of AIDMI’s Southasiadisasters.net journal. Thi…
This report focuses on the priorities for measures to be taken in the United Kingdom to support a gradual release from social distancing measures through a sustainable public health response to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The authors do not address the clear structural and procedural weaknesses that contributed to the current situation as there…
This CSS Risk and Resilience Report provides a comparative analysis of national risk assessments. Specifically, it compares the assessments made by nine European countries and Swiss Re respectively of five types of cross-border risks: electricity supply shortage, nuclear accident, pandemic, severe space weather, and volcanic outbreak.
The report finds…
The UK’s COVID inquiry is putting pandemic policymaking under the microscope. One of the key questions is who should make decisions in an emergency, and how.In a government committee hearing before the inquiry began, Dominic Cummings, former chief adviser to Boris Johnson, suggested a “kind of dictator” should be in charge in such times of crisis, relyi…
Focusing on COVID-19, this article illuminates comparative insights into resilience governance in England and how the regional soft spaces of local resilience forums differentially experienced this momentous disruptive event. The pandemic has exposed the limited ability of these regional soft spaces to enhance resilience to disruptions and thus narrow t…