Social Sciences Week | The future of universities
About this Event Universities occupy paradoxical places in contemporary society. The demand for higher education seems to be ever growing, and yet universities are never not in some kind of crisis. Covid-19 has accelerated a funding crisis in higher education that has been in the making for a long time. In few places has that …
Social Sciences Week | The social science of infectious diseases: Looking within & beyond COVID19
Exploring the complex intersections between infectious diseases and social, economic and political life The rise of coronavirus has brought into view the complex intersections between infectious diseases and social, economic and political life. It has focused our attention on the importance of interactions between microbes, animals, humans, and societies in a swiftly changing global ecological …