Tag: covid 19
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Disabled people’s rights during the COVID-19 crisis
Dr Ivanka Antova looks at how disability rights in the UK have fared under the myriad of COVID-19 related legislation and guidelines and calls for disability rights protection and enforcement to be a priority during the pandemic.
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Home cooking means healthier eating – there’s an opportunity to change food habits for good
Lockdown may mark the start of a healthier relationship with food for many people says Dr Danielle McCarthy.
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Randomly Responding to Covid-19
Science is quite rightly seen as systematic and based on logic and reason. Counter-intuitively, a core tool used by scientists is the opposite: randomness, says Professor John Garry.
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COVID-19 and Older People: a Queen’s University podcast
Professor Stuart Elborn, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for the Faculty of Medicine, Health and Life Sciences, hosts a discussion about the impact on older people and their families of the current coronavirus pandemic.
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Coronavirus treatments: what drugs might work against COVID-19?
Dr Connor Bamford looks at some of the treatments being investigated in the fight against COVID-19.
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How Can and Should the European Union respond to COVID-19 beyond short-termism….?
In this special long read article, Professor Dagmar Schiek looks at the EU’s response to date to the Covid crisis and asks what more should the European Union be doing?
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Why careful consideration must be given to when we reopen schools and how
Prof Tony Gallagher puts forward several key considerations which should be applied before any decision to reopen schools in Northern Ireland is taken.
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Coronavirus and the need for a new social and economic contract
In order to stem the inevitable economic downturn that will follow the COVID-19 crisis, we need something that provides every single person with the basic economic security they are entitled to. We need a Universal Basic Income says Patrick Brown.
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Coronavirus and the working parents’ childcare conundrum
Many working parents are adapting to working from home whilst navigating the challenges presented by school closures. Caroline Millar argues that a radical reappraisal of how we navigate work and family is required.
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Performing Artists in the age of COVID-19: A moment of urgent action and potential change
In this special long read, Drs Ioannis Tsioulakis and Ali FitzGibbon take an indepth look at the devastating impact the COVID pandemic is having on the performing arts sector.