Tag: covid 19
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What has COVID-19 shown us about the best ways to encourage people to adopt preventive health behaviours?
The COVID Health Related Behaviour Review project (COHeRe) has identified three key factors driving healthier and less risky behaviours – leading to recommendations for more effective public health messaging during the pandemic and beyond says Dr Jennifer Hanratty and Professor Martin Dempster.
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Solidarity and Marginality: Family Care in a Pandemic
Throughout the pandemic, more attention should have been paid to those caring for a vulnerable family member at home and to their everyday anxieties says Dr Lisa Smyth.
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Why large-scale anti-body testing could lower contagion of COVID-19
Dr Luis Guimaraes highlights how largescale antibody testing is vital in the fight against COVID and could lead to an increase in social interaction.
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A ‘super-wicked’ policy problem: the cross-border challenges of responding to COVID-19
Dr Muiris MacCarthaigh, Northern Ireland project lead for the recently-formed International Public Policy Observatory, looks at why taking a trans-national approach to pandemic responses has proved so difficult – for the island of Ireland as elsewhere.
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COVID-19 and the Laws of Death and Burial – New Podcast
In this episode of LawPod, PhD candidate Paula Shilliday talks to Professor Heather Conway about the intersections between the COVID-19 pandemic and the laws of death and burial.
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Coronavirus variants: are they really more deadly? Here’s what scientists know so far
Dr David Courtney asks whether the new variants of COVID-19 are more lethal or more transmissible than the original virus.
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Coronavirus might become endemic – here’s how
Dr Grace C Roberts looks at whether the virus that causes the coronavirus will eventually become part of everyday life.
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One year since we first reported on this coronavirus
Dr Connor Bamford looks at what we have learned since the outbreak of COVID-19 last year and what we still need to learn.
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A Roadmap to Recovery: Proposing a Forward-Thinking Commitment for Northern Ireland post Covid-19: Policy Paper
A more holistic approach to post-Covid recovery can help future-proof the economy and ensure that recovery champions a better society says Dr Ciaran O’Kelly, Dr Ciara Hackett, Dr Clare Patton and Samantha Hopkins from Queen’s School of Law.
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Self-disinfecting surfaces could help protect us from COVID-19 – here’s how
Dr Louise Carson, Professor Colin McCoy and Dr Jessica Moore look at the role of photosensitisers in developing self-disinfecting surfaces in the fight against the pandemic.