More than 160 people across the UK have been keeping lockdown diaries as part of a new research project charting the pandemic.
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London is an alpha city – home to 100 billionaires. But does wealth bring social costs?
A lot depends on China and India sharing the products of their pharmacuetical manufacturing with the rest of the world.
An audio version of an in depth article on the history of solitude.
There is a sad precedent of pandemic disease threatening the residents of care institutions – and of authorities not heeding the dangers.
To ‘preppers’ getting ready for a global cataclysm, the COVID-19 pandemic is a mere ‘mid-level’ event.
We can lock in these changes to build sustainable cities out of the coronavirus crisis – here’s how.
The second world war offers a possible blueprint for confronting the ventilator challenge.
The airline industry has faced many crises before. But these pale in comparison to the economic hit that airlines are currently facing.
Most people in the West are used to some form of solitude from time to time. But this is a fairly new normal.
We could use this crisis to rebuild, produce something better and more humane. But we may slide into something worse.
The consequences will be far more severe and long lasting in poorer countries.
Behind every government announcement, there is an army of epidemiologists predicting how the virus will spread, and how to beat it.
There are no criminal provisions around slavery in 49% of world nations, groundbreaking new legal research finds.
How two ambitious men put their own interests ahead of the great writer and his family in an act of institutionally-sanctioned bodysnatching.
The voices of young victims in Haiti can now be heard for the first time thanks to a groundbreaking new research project.
We may think tattooing is a modern phenomenon, but the reasons for its popularity are not dissimilar to those seen in the prisons and convict ships of the Victorian era.
Wars don’t produce winners and losers – they never really did.
These inspirational food sharing initiatives around the world demonstrate that sustainable food system can – and should – be democratic.
We’ve known how to control typhoid for over 100 years. The rapid current increase of drug-resistant variants in both rich and poor countries is down to decades of short-sighted global health policies.
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Reader in Education with Psychology and Centre for Death and Society, University of Bath
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Chargée de recherche CNRS, Géographe et politiste spécialiste des frontières et migrations, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)
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Assistant Director of the Global Systems Institute, University of Exeter
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Lecturer in Psychology, University of Plymouth
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Senior Lecturer in Journalism, University of Winchester
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Senior Research Scientist, Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, Lund University
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Emeritus Professor in Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia
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Honorary Research Fellow, City Political Economy Research Centre, City St George's, University of London
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Professor of Sustainable Development and Director of the Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity (CUSP), University of Surrey
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Professor of Neurology, UCL
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Associate Professor, Queen's University Belfast
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Professor in Modern History, University of Birmingham
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Professor of Social History, The Open University
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Senior Lecturer in Sport and Exercise Psychology, University of Winchester
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Professor of Modern History, University of Bristol