Research focus: Coronavirus
The Coronavirus Pandemic has changed our world, and how we live, in ways that would have seemed incredible before 2020.
Across the Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences, our research colleagues have been turning their attention to how these changes have and continue to impact society, and how we might take this opportunity to change our world for the better.
Below, we share a selection of research projects from within our Faculty as a response to COVID-19.
Forgotten and forsaken: ongoing impact of COVID-19 on immunocompromised people
Research by Dr Luca Bernardi, University of Liverpool and Dr Jo Daniels, University of Bath, reveals negative differences between Immunocompromised people and the general population.
Funded COVID-19 research projects
An overview of some of the research projects from Faculty colleagues that have been successful in securing funding to help tackle the Coronavirus and its impacts.
Being alone together: developing fake news immunity
Challenging fake news, Dr Elena Musi is fighting the “infodemic” by helping the media and public build ‘fake news immunity’, after securing more than £200,000 of UKRI funding.
Lives on hold: our stories told
A collaborative research project exploring the legal and social impacts of COVID-19 on young unaccompanied asylum-seekers in England.
Stay home stories
An AHRC-funded collaborative project seeking to understand the significance of the home and how it has mobilised, experienced and imagined during and after the lockdown.
Resisting dystopia: a science fiction reading list
Science Fiction Collections librarian and University teacher Phoenix Alexander has curated a selection of science fiction texts that will help you survive - and thrive!" - in our dystopian present.
Studying the impact of COVID-19 policy decisions in real-time
Studying major policy changes, and their impacts, in real time is not something our academics get to do every day. But that's just what Professor Sally Sheard is able to do in this exciting project.
Effectiveness of Government policies in response to the COVID-19 outbreak
Professor Costas Milas of the Management School assesses the quantitative impact of government interventions on deaths related to the COVID-19 outbreak.
COVID-19: Heseltine Institute policy briefs
How will the Liverpool City Region respond to COVID-19, one of the greatest public policy challenges faced in a generation? The Heseltine Institute For Public Policy, Practice and Place have put together a series of briefing notes on possible solutions.
Academic law and the pandemic response
Dr Amel Alghrani and colleagues have been applying their legal skills to projects helping with the response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The impact of COVID-19 on children’s rights
A series of briefing notes from Members of the European Children’s Rights Unit.
The shadow pandemic
Professor Sandra Walklate, Professor Barry Godfrey and Dr Jane Richardson investigate the challenges posed by the lockdown in responding to domestic abuse.
The impact of restricted access to arts and culture
Investigating how restricted access to arts and culture in the Liverpool City Region has impacted on public mental health and innovation in arts provision.
COVID-19 and racialised risk narratives in Ghana, Kenya and South Africa
How language used by governments, the media and others contributed to the racialisation of the risk narratives around COVID-19 in Ghana, Kenya and South Africa.
Photogrammetry remote learning & artefact handling
Photogrammetry Team has rapidly deployed a range of virtual models to assist in disrupted modules and course work during the pandemic.
Coronavirus: why China’s strategy to contain the virus worked
A prescient piece on The Conversation by Dr Fei Chen, Senior Lecturer in Architecture, on how China's strict quarantine policies proved to be effective in containing the pandemic.
Female led countries' COVID-19 outcomes "systematically and significantly better"
Research from Developmental Economist, Professor Supriya Garikipati found that female national leaders suffered half as many COVID deaths on average as male leaders.
Impacts of COVID-19 on mental health
Two projects from Dr Luca Bernardi, Lecturer in Politics, exploring the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health and political attitudes.
‘Let’s keep talking’: re-Imagining mental health service delivery post-pandemic
An evaluation of a telephone-based mental health support service led by the Management School's Professor Philippa Hunter-Jones.
Implications of COVID-19 for modern slavery challenges in supply chain management
Exploring challenges faced by firms in addressing modern slavery in corporate supply chains during the pandemic.
Supply chain resilience during COVID-19
This research explores how firms have managed with severe disruptions to the supply of materials caused by the pandemic.
The lived experiences of people bereaved by COVID-19
This report, led by the Management School's Professor Lynn Sudbury-Riley and Dr Benito Giordano, investigates the lived experiences of families bereaved by COVID-19.
Digital COVID-19 visualisation and impact
Research into design implications and applications that reduce the concentration of airborne droplets and aerosols, led by Monika Koeck (Director/Editor) and Richard Koeck (Executive Producer) from CAVA.