Covid-19 Research at UCL Anthropology

Below you can find the current research initiatives on Covid-19 in the department.

Publications 

• I Heard it Through the Grapevine: On Herd Immunity and Why it is Important by David Napier
• Coronavirus vs Face Masks: Victims of Our Own Successes by Elaine Wong
• Remote working: the new normal for many, but it comes with hidden risks – new research by Dave Cook
• Five workplace trends will shape life after lockdown by Dave Cook
• Memory in Athens. Acquiescent Spreaders: Occidentalism and peripatetic memory in Athens, Greece by Konstantinos Kalantzis
• How Street Artists Around The World Are Reacting To Life With Covid-19 interview with Rafael Schacter

Projects 

• Raising a Child Without the Village? Social Support and Maternal Wellbeing in the Time of COVID-19 – run by Emily Emmott and Sarah Myers
• Covid-19 UK Behavioural Study online survey to understand the emotional and behavioural response against the pandemic and future uncertainty - conducted by Deniz Salali together with her students (results will be posted on the study's website)

• ‘Documenting and Understanding Decision Making in Hospital Management during Covid-19 Pandemic. An embedded hospital ethnography’ - collaborative project between digital anthropology and medical anthropology involving Haidy Geismar, Sahra Gibbon, Aaron Parkhurst and Rebecca Irons