Coronavirus Impacts

Vaccine Passports, Governments, and Adult Movies
Public Policy
March 15, 2021

Vaccine Passports, Governments, and Adult Movies

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Opinion: We Must Resist the Powerful Voices Arguing for Zero COVID
Public Policy
March 8, 2021

Opinion: We Must Resist the Powerful Voices Arguing for Zero COVID

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2021: From Scholars to Disposable Labor in the Brave New World of Academic Capitalism
Higher Education Reform
February 11, 2021

2021: From Scholars to Disposable Labor in the Brave New World of Academic Capitalism

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Video: Polarization During COVID-19
Resources
January 28, 2021

Video: Polarization During COVID-19

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No One Can Ensure Total Safety… We Must Fight Pandemic of FEAR

No One Can Ensure Total Safety… We Must Fight Pandemic of FEAR

With this pandemic, argues Robert Dingwall, fear amplification has been policy, based on the advice of a particular group of behavioral scientists advising the United Kingdom’s government.

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Start Talking Now About Life After Jabs Make COVID Less Deadly Than the Flu

Start Talking Now About Life After Jabs Make COVID Less Deadly Than the Flu

The reports from Britain’s hospitals in the last few days have been truly worrying. No one should doubt the reality of what […]

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COVID’s Lessons On Conducting Fieldwork

COVID’s Lessons On Conducting Fieldwork

The pandemic has shaken our fieldwork activities to the core, if by fieldwork we mean working ‘in the field’. Even though it can be very demanding, we should adapt – when possible – to the new reality, and learn from it, writes Matteo Marenco

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Readying for a New Normal: Higher Ed Teaching and Learning after COVID

Readying for a New Normal: Higher Ed Teaching and Learning after COVID

Kiren Shoman, the editorial director for SAGE Publishing, discusses what SAGE has learned from the higher ed sector as it reflects on how the pandemic response has affected teaching and what it expects once the new normal arrives.

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Medical Imperialism and the Fate of Christmas

Medical Imperialism and the Fate of Christmas

What happens, asks Robert Dingwall, when governments attempt to impose a moral code on the everyday lives of citizens without the consent of those citizens?

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Sonia Livingstone Discusses Digital Publishing in the Face of a Global Pandemic

Sonia Livingstone Discusses Digital Publishing in the Face of a Global Pandemic

In this Q&A conducted by the LSE Impact blog, social psychologist Sonia Livingstone outlines the ways that the pandemic has transformed the process of promoting a book. She discusses the heightened importance of social media and the opportunities that digital technologies have afforded for reaching new audiences and adapting conventional formats.

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Teaching Students Quants is Hard Enough. Now I Have to Do It on MS Teams!

Teaching Students Quants is Hard Enough. Now I Have to Do It on MS Teams!

We have spent the best part of a decade trying, testing and honing techniques to engage and enthuse our undergrads with quantitative data analysis, explains Julie Scott Jones. Then a global pandemic arrived.

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We Must Learn to Live With the Virus – Just Like Samuel Pepys Lived With the Great Plague

We Must Learn to Live With the Virus – Just Like Samuel Pepys Lived With the Great Plague

Humanity has a long history of dealing with things like pandemics. What history shows us is that the only practicable interventions are social and behavioral. How can we slow the movement of the new infection through the population while medical science catches up with treatments or vaccines?

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