Communication & data analysis
This group of projects focuses on tracking and understanding how information about the pandemic has been spread and understood by diverse communities.
Design
These projects have made strong interventions in understanding and improving design for healthcare settings and other public services.
Experience
These research projects have used creative methodologies to investigate how the pandemic has been understood and interpreted by communities in real time.
Communication & data analysis
Between environmental concerns and compliance
How does media messaging affect motivation and choice between disposable versus reusable face masks?
Professor Nathan Abrams
(Bangor University)
Co-design and implement a COVID-19 vaccine uptake intervention within Chinese Communities in England
Dr Qian (Sarah) Gong
(University of Leicester)
COJO for COVID Recovery
Solutions-focused Constructive Journalism as an Exit Strategy for the UK’s Local/Regional Communities
Professor An Nguyen
(University of Bournemouth)
Comics in the time of COVID-19
Tracking data on web-based comics and evaluating their potential for communicating public health messages
Professor Anna Feigenbaum
(Bournemouth University)
Coronavirus Discourses
Linguistic evidence for effective public health messaging
Professor Svenja Adolphs
(University of Nottingham)
Cultural Translation and Interpreting of COVID-19 Risks among London’s Migrant Communities
Dr Nana Sato-Rossberg
(School of Oriental and African Studies)
Information Design for Diagnostics
Ensuring Confidence and Accuracy for Home Testing
Professor Sue Walker
(University of Reading)
Public health messaging during the COVID pandemic
Dating app usage and sexual wellbeing among men who have sex with men
Professor Ben Light
(University of Salford)
TRAC:COVID
Trust and Communication: A Coronavirus online visual dashboard
Dr Andrew Kehoe
(Birmingham City University)
Design
Grading Gowns
Redesigning one-size PPE to fit and protect female health workers more effectively
Professor Katherine Townshend
(Nottingham Trent University)
Quality Improvement Tool for Re-designing Healthcare Service User Journeys with COVID-19 Risk Assessment and Mitigation
Professor Tom Inns
(University of Strathclyde)
Routes of Infection, Routes to Safety
Creative Mapping of Human-Viral Behaviours on the Bus to Understand Infection Prevention Practices
Dr Emma Roe, Dr Sandra Wilks, Dr Paul Hurley
(University of Southampton)
Dr Charlotte Veal
(Newcastle University)
Touch Post-COVID-19
Navigating Through Deafblindness in the UK via Haptic-Audiovisual Technologies of Perception
Dr Azadeh Emadi
(University of Glasgow)
Experience
A National Day of Reflection
Lessons from past memorialisation initiatives and attitudes in the present
Dr David Tollerton
(University of Exeter)
Bereavement Rituals During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Implications for Mental Health Support, Funerary Practices and Public Health Messaging
Dr Karen Windle
(National Centre for Social Research – NatCen)
Scenes of shame and stigma in COVID-19
Professor Luna Dolezal, Dr Arthur Rose, and Dr Fred Cooper
(University of Exeter)
Stay Home Stories
Rethinking the Domestic During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Professor Alison Blunt
(Queen Mary University of London)
The immobilities of gender-based violence in the COVID-19 pandemic
Dr Leslie Murray
(University of Brighton)
VIP CLEAR
Children’s lockdown experiences applied to recovery
Professor Lindsey McEwen
(University of the West of England)
