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Month: May 2020

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The WHO in the limelight: squaring a triangle of science, politics and policy in global health emergencies by Dr Cleo Davies

May 29, 2020 S-P-A-Administrator 0

After the SARS outbreak in 2002-2004, the 2009 flu pandemic, and Ebola in 2014-2016, the World Health Organization (WHO) is back in the limelight due […]

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Tribute to Dr Duncan Scott

May 26, 2020 S-P-A-Administrator 6

Duncan Scott died on 17th May 2020 after a stroke. He was a Lecturer and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Policy and Social […]

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Tackling fuel poverty – the Implications of COVID-19 by Baker et al.

May 21, 2020 S-P-A-Administrator 0

Policies to address the impact of Covid-19 on low income energy consumers have rightly focussed on energy bills, particularly in the context of home confinement […]

Tribute to Professor John Veit-Wilson (1936-2020)

May 18, 2020 S-P-A-Administrator 16

Colleagues will be saddened to learn that John Veit-Wilson died on Sunday, 10 May 2020. John will be remembered as a very kind and generous […]

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Young Women & COVID-19: We are not all in this together by Sarah Hadfield

May 18, 2020 S-P-A-Administrator 0

Childfree young women are not a group we hear much from. Their lack of representation in society and the ways in which they experience the […]

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Need in the Time of Corona (with apologies to Gabriel Garcia Marquez) by Hartley Dean

May 14, 2020 S-P-A-Administrator 0

Human need ought surely to be a central concept for Social Policy. And yet the meaning and value of the concept remain perennially contested. Lessons […]

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COVID-19 and BAME disproportionality by Meer, Qureshi, Kasstan & Hill

May 11, 2020 S-P-A-Administrator 0

As we await the findings of the NHS England and Public Health England inquiry into the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on Black Asian and Minority […]

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Covid-19 policy is social policy by Rebecca Tunstall

May 6, 2020 S-P-A-Administrator 0

What are you doing right now? Marking, meetings and deadlines as usual? Home schooling and working at the same time? Worrying about someone who is […]

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