Politics & Society The Social Problems of Protecting Refugees during Covid-19 How do we protect refugees during the coronavirus pandemic? Can the field of ‘humanitarian engineering’ help us in this endeavour?
Politics & Society Is Covid-19 Part of History’s Eternal Danse Macabre? From the plagues in Egypt to the Black Death, the Spanish flu and now Covid-19, the trail of human misery left by diseases and disasters has been intense. For a social scientist, what do these events mean for society and its future?
Politics & Society Why Social Research is Urgently Needed in Times of Covid-19 Social research is urgently needed to detail people’s experiences of life during the pandemic, how different countries and governments are responding to the crisis and what social changes are happening.
Politics & Society Covid-19 Forces Us to Take Linguistic Diversity Seriously In a time of crisis like the current pandemic, how can we influence behaviour change and ensure international cooperation in a multilingual world? And can we learn lessons from the Chinese approach?