Social Science responds to COVID-19

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8 May 2020

How coronavirus will change the way Australians live long after restrictions are lifted​

If you want to hear what sociologists are saying about how our way life will change post COVID-19, please check out this SBS news story featuring our own Dr Rebecca Olson: https://www.sbs.com.au/news/how-coronavirus-will-change-the-way-australians-live-long-after-restrictions-are-lifted?fbclid=IwAR20nYkpTLcykGPzlAsiskLMr_f-ldj07C9hl2y4aPTFTCHleqA41ztuai8

30 April 2020

COVID 19: The Crisis, Leadership and the State

Adjunct Professor Adil Khan writes: https://countercurrents.org/2020/04/covid-19-the-crisis-leadership-and-the-state?fbclid=IwAR01XbJB-xd63aP5ERESQ8Z6EUbr_3GJ52Ac0kjQC0dJ6PY1iG0qeb_zMxU

6 April 2020

Dr Kim de Rijke has made it onto the Channel 7 news to tell us about the vulnerabilities in our global system and the effects of COVID19: https://www.facebook.com/130736376939223/posts/3206706469342183/?vh=e&d=n

2 April 2020

The answer to Indigenous vulnerability to coronavirus: a more equitable public health agenda

Associate Professor Chelsea Bond published an article on Indigenous vulnerability to COVID-19 and the need for a more equitable public health agenda. This important piece of conversation has already received close to 50000 reads: https://theconversation.com/the-answer-to-indigenous-vulnerability-to-coronavirus-a-more-equitable-public-health-agenda-135048?fbclid=IwAR0WsxMBvHniv4H_O4vq5Jml7uBaXh-1E0y1ZCmr4-1tZmKNmAKMorHK7sM

March 30 2020

Delivery workers are now essential. They deserve the rights of other employees

PhD candidate Tylor Riordan published this pertinent piece in The Conversation: https://theconversation.com/delivery-workers-are-now-essential-they-deserve-the-rights-of-other-employees-134406?fbclid=IwAR0anE9jl8FdCPFq8pfcqCMk1eq6GMLaT2ossT-UImiZ_OACe-xc9aDSpzo