By Alison Briggs, University of Manchester, UK This post is reproduced with permission from the Life on the Breadline Research…
Why has coronavirus affected cities more than rural areas?
By Jesse Matheson (University of Sheffield), Max Nathan (University College London), Harry Pickard (University of Sheffield) and Enrico Vanino (University of Sheffield) This article was…
COVID-19 and Energy System Transformation – the future in fast forward? Or old habits die hard?
By Mike Bradshaw, Warwick Business School, & Caroline Kuzemko, University of Warwick This article was originally commissioned and published by…
Connecting with nature during Covid-19
By Simon Willcock, Bangor University On March 23rd 2020, the Government imposed travel restrictions across the UK as an attempt to slow…
Microfinance loans could spell disaster in the time of coronavirus
By Vincent Guermond, Royal Holloway; Laurie Parsons, Royal Holloway; Nithya Joseph, Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD), and Nithya…
The crowd in the time of lockdown
Long confined to the realm of the imaginary, the idea of the “next pandemic” was fuelled by what scholars referred…
Coronavirus: how lockdown exposed food insecurity in a small Bangladeshi city
by Mohammad Feisal Rahman, Durham University and Hanna A Ruszczyk, Durham University This article is republished from The Conversation under…
Superstition and Covid-19: How the Retreat into Belief Opens Fault Lines in Our Rationality
By Laurie Parsons, Royal Holloway, University of London At first, they came in ones and twos, but soon they were…
Five issues hidden behind the exodus of India’s migrant labour under the Covid-19 lockdown.
By Alpa Shah, LSE, & Jens Lerche, SOAS If there is anything positive that has come out of the multiple…
Covid-19, Geography and Urban Ecology: practitioner experiences
By Ian Douglas, University of Manchester, UK As with other disasters, be they due to human folly or geophysical forces,…
Missing Black Lives
By Amy Humphrey, Dundee University & Hester Parr, Glasgow University *This is the second of two posts on missing people…
Stay home, stay safe? A political geography of home in Covid-times
By Katherine Brickell, Royal Holloway, University of London The home has become ground zero of the fight against the spread…
Researching the Covid-19 pandemic from the lens of a health geographer: Maps, spatial scales, and social inequities
by Sabrina Li, University of Oxford This blog is reposted with permission from the RGS-IBG Geographies of Health and Wellbeing…
Managing Covid-19 on an increasingly urbanised planet
By Creighton Connolly, University of Lincoln This article is republished from LSE Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre with permission.…
A patchwork of vulnerabilities to the Covid-19 crisis around England
By Alex Davenport (Institute for Fiscal Studies), Christine Farquharson (Institute for Fiscal Studies) and Imran Rasul (Institute for Fiscal Studies/UCL)…
Pandemic acceleration
By Professor Andrew Tatem FAcSS (Professor of Spatial Demography and Epidemiology, University of Southampton and Director of WorldPop and Flowminder)…
Will local food producers keep feeding us beyond Covid-19?
By Anna Krzywoszynska, University of Sheffield, UK The Covid-19 pandemic has significantly affected the UK’s food system. During the first weeks…
Can I trust this map? 4 questions to ask when you see a map of the coronavirus pandemic
by Amy Griffin, RMIT University This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original…
Women leaders and coronavirus: look beyond stereotypes to find the secret of their success
By Kate Maclean, Northumbria University, Newcastle This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the…
Covid-19 and the changing geographies of exercise
By Simon Cook, Birmingham City University, & Sam Hayes, University of Salford The lockdown and social distancing measures introduced in…
Why the Anthropocene began with European colonisation, mass slavery and the ‘great dying’ of the 16th century
by Mark Maslin, UCL and Simon Lewis, UCL This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.…
Missing people in the 2020 pandemic
By Amy Humphrey, Dundee University and Hester Parr, Glasgow University On 16th June 2020, Scotland’s Daily Record newspaper carried the headline ‘Police…
Health is made at home; why we need a Healthy Homes Act
By Nigel Crisp, House of Lords, UK This article is reblogged from the Town & Country Planning Association’s blog. The…
Transport, ‘public’ space, and the geographies of getting back to work
By Alex Jackman, RGS-IBG As lockdown rules and social distancing restrictions start to ease around the world, more workplaces, schools and businesses are beginning to reopen. Geographers are now working to understand changing patterns of…
The loss of territory and the impact of Covid-19 on Afro-descendant communities in Latin America
By Jesus Natividad Pérez Palomino & Ana Laura Zavala Guillen, University of Birmingham, UK In these times of Covid-19, international organisations, such as…
Geographies of knowledge (and of money)
By Andrew Leyshon, University of Nottingham Explaining economic geography as an academic sub-discipline in a succinct and understandable way used…
Cities must act to secure the future of urban cycling: our research shows how
By Robin Lovelace, University of Leeds and Joey Talbot, University of Leeds This article is republished from The Conversation under…
Logistics after Covid-19: just repair the chains, or is it time for reset?
By Markus Hesse, University of Luxembourg One of the most significant and visible impacts of Covid-19 and the related lockdowns has…
The uneven geographies of Covid-19 in Latin America
By Sam Halvorsen, Matthew Richmond & Sonja Marzi, Latin American Geographies Working Group, UK Like everywhere else, the spread of…
Covid-19 and our changing sense of place
David Bissell, The University of Melbourne, Australia *The main post is a link to the lecture that David gave at…
Home during COVID-19, and beyond
By Louise Reid, University of St Andrews, and Rachel Creaney, University of St Andrews/ James Hutton Institute, UK Lockdown restrictions have…
Covid-19 and food systems: relational geographies, food insecurity and relocalisation
By Damian Maye, University of Gloucestershire, UK Covid-19 is highlighting vulnerabilities in food systems like never before and exposing fundamental moral…
Coronavirus: wastewater can tell us where the next outbreak will be
Davey Jones, Bangor University This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.…
Public transport in times of Covid-19: disruption and continuity in urban mobility
By Tonio Weicker, Wladimir Sgibnev, Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, Leipzig Over the last couple of months, it is clear…
#Cleanergate: Domestic workers and the intimate geographies of lockdown
By Rosie Cox, Birkbeck, University of London, UK In mid May, following the UK government’s announcement of a loosening of…
Why coronavirus death rates won’t fall as quickly as they rose
by Danny Dorling, University of Oxford This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the…
Decarbonisation clusters: the geological solution
By Mike Stephenson, British Geological Survey, UK In the UK, industry accounts for a quarter of greenhouse gas emissions with most coming…
The urban poor have been hit hard by coronavirus. We must ask who cities are designed to serve
by Colin McFarlane, Durham University, UK This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the…
Support and exclusion for older adults during Covid-19: is the neighbourhood always best placed?
By Sophie Yarker, Chris Phillipson, Camilla Lewis, Tine Buffel & Patty Doran, University of Manchester, UK Older people have borne…
The sexual politics of lockdown
by Gavin Brown, University of Leicester, UK On 14 May 2020, ahead of the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia,…
How the first modern pandemic made key workers its early victims
by David R Green, King’s College London This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read…
“GET SMALLER?” Micro-Living in the age of Covid-19
By Ella Harris, Birkbeck, University of London & Mel Nowicki, Oxford Brookes University Over the past decade in the West,…
COVID is a Feminist Issue
By The Gender and Feminist Geographies Research Group of the RGS-IBG We have been told repeatedly that this virus is…
From Infection to Pandemic in 48 hours? Factors of Disease Diffusion
By Mark Welford, University of Northern Iowa, USA & Brian Bossak, College of Charleston, USA For the last couple of…
Thinking about Black death and (im)mobilities during the Covid-19 pandemic
By Lioba Hirsch, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK Racism is killing us. Sometimes slowly, sometimes fast. Right…
Quarantine Urban Ecologies
By Jonathon Turnbull, Adam Searle, and William M. Adams This article was originally published as Turnbull, Jonathon, Adam Searle, and William M. Adams.…
If platforms do not protect gig workers, who will?
Authored by researchers at Fairwork, including: Mark Graham, Funda Ustek-Spilda, Kelle Howson and Srujana Katta, Alessio Bertolini, Adam Badger, Fabian Ferrari and…
Developing indices of the economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic
By Dianna Smith, Graham Moon, Paul Roderick, University of Southampton, UK It is abundantly clear that the Covid-19 pandemic will…
Understanding the spatialities of COVID-19
Kamalini Ramdas and David Taylor of the Department of Geography at the National University of Singapore argue that pandemic response should include haptic…
Living with bunker builders: doomsday prepping in the age of coronavirus
by Bradley Garrett, University College Dublin This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the…
