Social Sciences Week: Politics of bad behaviour – anti-vaxxers and the anti-science backlash
How the calls to combat the pandemic turned into a show of political attitude. The use of masks and vaccines to control and prevent the spread of the coronavirus have been a political flash point over the past year. Studies have shown that attitudes towards mask use, vaccination and other public health measures have become …
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 …