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After the lockdown: The biopolitics of COVID-19
Nick Pearce is a Professor in Public Policy and Director of the Institute for Policy Research (IPR) at the University of Bath. Has the COVID-19 pandemic reduced humans under lockdown to a ‘bare life’, in which mere survival becomes the...
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Science and the coronavirus pandemic
Graham Room is a Professor of European Social Policy at the University of Bath. He is author, co-author or editor of thirteen books, the most recent being Agile Actors on Complex Terrains: Transformative Realism and Public Policy (Routledge, 2016). He was Director of...
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Labyrinth: The COVID-19 challenge for the self-employed and Universal Credit claimants
Rita Griffiths is a Research Fellow at the University of Bath Institute for Policy Research (IPR). The emergency package of measures for supporting employees, benefit claimants and the self-employed announced last week by Rishi Sunak has generally been welcomed. With a £20...
