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COVID-19 Collection

There is little doubt the COVID-19 pandemic is having a significant impact on our societies on a number of different levels. Our COVID-19 Collection showcases our content on this significant global challenge, regardless of specialisms, in order to encourage broader perspectives and collaborations across global and disciplinary boundaries.

The titles below, and many more to come, consider the variety of impacts the pandemic has had on society and allow authors to join the debate authoritatively and quickly. Titles in the COVID-19 Collection will include all book types, from accessible Shorts to research monographs, and are available in print and digital formats.

The first book in this collection was Martin Parker’s Life After COVID-19, featuring expert authors from across academia and civil society offering ideas that might put us on alternative paths for positive social change.

We would love to hear from you if you think your research would be a good fit. If you are interested and want to find out more, please get in touch with the Commissioning Editor for your subject area. If you think your work is particularly timely and could benefit from a shorter turnaround, you may be interested in our Rapid Responses.

Our COVID-19 Collection is also available on our Amazon Store.

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COVID-19 and Risk

Policy Making in a Global Pandemic

Drawing on case studies from the UK, China, Japan, New Zealand and the US this text explores policy responses to COVID-19 through the lens of risk. The book considers how different countries framed the pandemic, categorised their populations and communicated risk. It also evaluates the role of the media, conspiracy theories and hindsight.

Policy Press
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Emergency Powers in a Time of Pandemic

Written by an expert on constitutional law and human rights, this accessible book explores how human rights, democracy and the rule of law can be protected during a pandemic and how emergency powers can best be ended once it wanes.

Bristol Uni Press
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Researching in the Age of COVID-19

Volume I: Response and Reassessment

Edited by Helen Kara and Su-ming Khoo

Part of a series of three, this book showcases new research methods and emerging approaches. Focusing on Response and Reassessment, it has three parts: the first looks at the turn to digital methods; the second reviews methods in hand and the final part reassesses different needs and capabilities.

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Researching in the Age of COVID-19

Volume II: Care and Resilience

Edited by Helen Kara and Su-ming Khoo

Part of a series of three, this book connects themes of care and resilience, addressing their common concern with wellbeing. It has three parts: addressing researchers’ wellbeing, considering participants’ wellbeing, and exploring care and resilience as a shared and mutually entangled concern.

Policy Press
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Researching in the Age of COVID-19

Volume III: Creativity and Ethics

Edited by Helen Kara and Su-ming Khoo

Part of a series of three, this book explores dimensions of creativity and ethics. It has three parts: the first covers creative approaches to researching. The second considers concerns around research ethics and ethics more generally, and the final part addresses different ways of approaching creativity and ethics through collaboration.

Policy Press
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COVID-19 in the Global South

Impacts and Responses

Bringing together a range of experts across various sectors, this important volume explores some of the key issues that have arisen in the Global South with the COVID-19 pandemic and offers vital insights into how they can be mitigated in some of the most challenging socio-economic contexts worldwide.

Bristol Uni Press
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Social Problems in the Age of COVID-19 Vol 2

Global Perspectives

Published with SSSP, this book addresses the greatest social challenges facing the world as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The authors propose public policy solutions to help refugees, migrant workers, victims of human trafficking, indigenous populations and the invisible poor of the Global South.

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Social Work and the COVID-19 Pandemic

International Insights

This book provides an urgent critical exploration of how Social Work can and should respond to the COVID-19 crisis. It examines the ways that social work has responded in different nations across the Global North and Global South.

Policy Press
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Cities and Communities Beyond COVID-19

How Local Leadership Can Change Our Future for the Better

Drawing on a decade of research, an internationally renowned expert explains how cities and communities can develop recovery strategies following the COVID-19 pandemic that promote social, economic and environmental justice.

Bristol Uni Press
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Social Problems in the Age of COVID-19 Vol 1

US Perspectives

This book provides accessible insights into pressing social problems in the United States in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic and proposes public policy responses for victims and justice, precarious populations, employment dilemmas and health and well-being.

Policy Press
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Life After COVID-19

The Other Side of Crisis

Edited by Martin Parker

Almost every aspect of society will change after the pandemic, but if we learn lessons then life can be better. Featuring expert authors from across academia and civil society, this book offers ideas that might put us on alternative paths for positive social change.

Bristol Uni Press
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Special issues of Global Discourse: An interdisciplinary journal of current affairs

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Guest edited by Marianne Hester, Nadia Aghtaie, Geentanjali Gangoli, Natasha Mulvihill and Emma Williamson

Themed section: The COVID-19 pandemic and gender-based violence

Guest edited by Marianne Hester, Nadia Aghtaie, Geentanjali Gangoli, Natasha Mulvihill and Emma Williamson

Special issues of the Journal of Psychosocial Studies

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Guest Edited by Silvia Posocco and Stephen Frosh

 

Themed section from the Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice

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