VIRTUAL EVENT: The impact of lockdown on mental health: Greece and the UK

How do our individual experiences of this global pandemic compare to others around the world? What lessons can we learn from the national lockdowns this past year to better prepare us for the management and expectations of future lockdowns?

Using data from the UCL-Penn Global COVID Study, we applied a machine learning data-driven approach to identify the aspects of people’s lives that have been most affected by lockdown restrictions.

Find out how these findings may inform future lockdown restrictions as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to unfold around the world. 

We look forward to hearing about your experience. 

Speakers

• Dr Gianluca Esposito, Associate Professor, Nanyang Technological University and University of Trento
• Dr Andrea Bizzego, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Trento
• Alessandro Carollo, Research Assistant, University of Trento
• Guilio Gabrieli, PhD Candidate, Nanyang Technological University
• Discussant: Kasley Killam, writer, speaker, founder of Social Health Labs, and consultant who specialises in social connection, loneliness, and health

• Chair: Dr Keri Wong, Assistant Professor, UCL Institute of Education.

UCL-Penn Global COVID Study webinar series

The UCL-Penn Global COVID Study is hosting a virtual webinar series, ‘Lessons from COVID-19: Reflections, Resilience and Recovery‘, sponsored by UCL Global Engagement. 

The five webinars will cover a range of topics including COVID’s impact on mental health in the general population across different countries, family relationships and social trust in others, postgraduate student wellbeing in higher education and the type of support we need to recover. 

Links

• Tweet with #GlobalCOVIDStudy
• COVID-19: Global social trust and mental health
• Department of Psychology and Human Development

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