Contributors

Contributors

Pascale Aebischer is Professor of Shakespeare and Early Modern Performance Studies at the University of Exeter. She is a specialist in performance technologies who, during the COVID-19 pandemic, worked on Digital Theatre Transformation (AHRC) and took on the leadership of an interdisciplinary team at the University of Exeter for The Pandemic and Beyond: The Arts and Humanities Contribution to Covid Research and Recovery (AHRC-funded project). Building on this work, she is now Co-Lead, with Karen Gray (University of Bristol), of the British Academy-funded Pandemic Preparedness in the Live Performing Arts: Lessons to Learn from COVID-19 project (2023–2024).

Alison Blunt is Professor of Geography at Queen Mary University of London, Co-Director of the Centre for Studies of Home (a partnership between Queen Mary and the Museum of the Home) and was Principal Investigator on the Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded project Stay Home Stories. Her recent publications include, with Robyn Dowling, Home (Routledge, 2022, 2nd edition).

Josefina Bravo, PhD, is a practising information designer and Lecturer at the University of Reading, UK. In her practice and research, she has focused on the design of user-friendly health information, emergency information and education materials. She is particularly interested in user instructions and the range of visual techniques that can be used to enable comprehension of instructional text.

Kathy Burrell is Professor of Migration Geographies at the University of Liverpool, UK, and was a Co-Investigator on the Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded project Stay Home Stories. She is currently working on a British Academy-funded project on Polish experiences of the post-Brexit Settled Status regime, as well as researching the UK’s refugee hosting programme Homes for Ukraine.

Fred Cooper is a historian of loneliness and shame, presently working at the University of Bristol as a Senior Research Associate on the Wellcome-funded Epistemic Injustice in Health Care project (EPIC). With Luna Dolezal and Arthur Rose, he co-authored Covid-19 and Shame: Political Emotions and Public Health in the UK (Bloomsbury Academic, 2023), and was Co-Investigator on the AHRC-funded project, Scenes of Shame and Stigma in COVID-19.

Elizabeth Crooke is Professor of Heritage and Museum Studies at Ulster University, UK, and Principal Investigator of the UKRI-funded project Museums, Crisis and Covid19: Vitality and Vulnerabilities. Her research focuses on what museums bring to society and how we engage with them.

Luna Dolezal is Professor of Philosophy and Medical Humanities at the University of Exeter, UK. She is Principal Investigator of the Shame and Medicine Project (2020–2025), funded by the Wellcome Trust. She collaborated with Arthur Rose and Fred Cooper on the Scenes of Shame and Stigma in COVID-19 project (2020–2022), funded by the AHRC, and they co-authored the book Covid-19 and Shame: Political Emotions and Public Health in the UK (Bloomsbury Academic, 2023).

Alexander Edwards has a background in fundamental immunology combined with expertise in biochemical engineering. He is an interdisciplinary researcher focused on solving current and future healthcare challenges by combining the latest biology, biochemistry, chemistry and physics. Working at the interface between academic technology discovery and industrial development, he has experience of both fundamental science and the commercialisation of new technology, especially in the area of clinical diagnostic.

Azadeh Emadi is a Senior Lecturer and video maker at the University of Glasgow, UK (Film and TV Department). Her scholarly and creative work intends to address socio-environmental issues and create space for cultural dialogues by investigating digital materiality and perception, visual aesthetics, alternative approaches to image making and technologies of perception.

Georgina Endfield is Professor of Environmental History and Associate Pro Vice Chancellor for the Research Environment and Postgraduate Research at the University of Liverpool, UK. She was Co-Investigator on the Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded project Stay Home Stories and is currently working on a book on societal relationships with the weather through time in a UK context.

David Farrell-Banks is a Practitioner Research Associate at the Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge, UK. His work explores the personal, political and affective role of the past on present-day lived experience.

Ken Fero, PhD, is Assistant Professor at the Research Centre for Global Education at Coventry University, UK, as well as the Director of Migrant Media, a radical documentary film collective working on issues of race, class and resistance.

Des Fitzgerald is Professor of Medical Humanities and Social Sciences in the Radical Humanities Laboratory, University College Cork, Ireland. His most recent book is The City of Today Is a Dying Thing (Faber and Faber, 2024).

Karen Gray is a researcher with a particular interest in work at the intersection between culture, health and wellbeing. She is currently Senior Research Associate at the School for Policy Studies at the University of Bristol. During the pandemic she worked on the Impacts of COVID-19 on the UK Cultural Sector (AHRC) project with the Centre for Cultural Value, as well as The Pandemic and Beyond: The Arts and Humanities Contribution to Covid Research and Recovery (AHRC-funded). In 2023–2024 she built on this experience, co-leading with Pascale Aebischer the British Academy-funded project Pandemic Preparedness in the Live Performing Arts: Lessons to Learn from COVID-19.

Amanda Holt is Professor of Criminology at the University of Roehampton, London, UK. Her research work focuses on families, young people and harm and she has published widely on topics concerned with parenting and youth justice, family violence and homicide and research methodologies. Her books include Adolescent-to-Parent Abuse: Current Understandings in Research, Policy and Practice ( Policy Press, 2013) and the edited collection Working with Adolescent Violence and Abuse towards Parents: Approaches and Contexts for Intervention (Routledge, 2016). She is a Trustee of Family Lives, the national family support charity.

Paul Hurley is an artist-researcher working inside and outside of universities. He specialises in creating qualitative, participatory and artistic research and engagement projects, and is interested in exploring human–non-human entanglements, whether they are microbes, laboratory animals or postnature wildlife. While Paul’s roots are in the fields of Performance and Participatory Art and More-than-Human Geographies, he is currently working with the Centre for Higher Education Practice at the University of Southampton, UK, creating programmes in researcher development.

Miri Lawrence is a Rabbi and researcher. She was a Postdoctoral Researcher on the Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded project Stay Home Stories, and Curator of Liberal Judaism’s Lily’s Legacy Project.

Jess Moriarty is Principal Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Brighton, UK, and Co-Director of its Centre for Arts and Wellbeing. She is course leader for the Creative Writing BA, English Language and Creative Writing BA, English Literature and Creative Writing BA and for the Creative Writing MA. Jess’s research focuses on autoethnography, community engagement and pedagogy in writing practice. She has published extensively on creative writing pedagogy, autoethnography and community engagement. Her current book (with Christina Reading), Walking for Creative Recovery (Triarchy Press, 2022) adopts an autoethnographic approach and explores creative practice as a method for supporting wellbeing.

Lesley Murray is Professor in Spatial Sociology at the University of Brighton, UK, where her research centres on urban mobilities. Lesley has published extensively in the field of mobilities; topics include the intersections between mobile and visual methods and gendered mobilities, children’s mobilities. She has co-authored a book on Children’s Mobilities (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019) and co-edited five transdisciplinary collections: Mobile Methodologies (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010); Researching and Representing Mobilities (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014); Intergenerational Mobilities (Routledge, 2016); Families in Motion (Emerald Publishing, 2019); and Sensory Transformations (Routledge, 2023).

Eithne Nightingale is a writer, film maker and researcher. She was a Postdoctoral Researcher on the Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded project Stay Home Stories and directed the related podcasts and films. Her book Child Migrant Voices in Modern Britain: Oral Histories from 1930s to the Present Day (Bloomsbury, 2024) was based on her PhD research on child migration undertaken at Queen Mary University of London.

Alastair Owens is Professor of Historical Geography at Queen Mary University of London and was a Co-Investigator on the Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded project Stay Home Stories. He is currently working on a book about the response of Church of England clergy living and working in urban parishes to the so-called ‘crisis’ of the British inner city in the late twentieth century

Anandi Ramamurthy is Professor of Media and Culture at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. Her research explores questions of race and representation in British and global cultures using an interdisciplinary approach. She was the Principal Investigator for the UKRI/AHRC- funded project Nursing Narratives: Racism and the Pandemic. Her previous books include Imperial Persuaders: Images of Africa and Asia in British Advertising (Manchester University Press, 2003); Black Star: Britain’s Asian Youth Movements (Pluto Press, 2013); Struggling to Be Seen: The Travails of Palestinian Cinema (Daraja, 2020; with Paul Kelemen).

Caroline Redhead is a Research Fellow in the Centre for Social Ethics and Policy, part of the Law Department at the University of Manchester. Having worked as a commercial solicitor for many years, in the UK and in Hong Kong, she moved from private practice to academia in 2020. Her research interests lie broadly in the dynamic interplay between law, ethics (particularly bioethics) and social change.

Emma Roe is a transdisciplinary scholar and Professor of More-than-Human Geographies in the School of Geography and Environment at the University of Southampton, UK. Current research addresses steps towards a net zero agro-food system; tackling the rise in anti-microbial resistance and other microbial risks in and beyond the food system; and laboratory animal care, breeding and supply practices. Emma is often found working with those outside her discipline and with community and industry partners. She is the co-author of Food and Animal Welfare (Bloomsbury, 2018), and co-editor of Participatory Research in More-than-Human Worlds (Routledge, 2018) and Researching Animal Research (Manchester University Press, 2023).

Arthur Rose is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Exeter, UK, where he contributes to the Shame and Medicine Project, funded by the Wellcome Trust. Together with Fred Cooper and Luna Dolezal, he worked on the AHRC-funded project Scenes of Shame and Stigma in COVID-19 (2020–2022), for which they co-authored the book Covid-19 and Shame: Political Emotions and Public Health in the UK (Bloomsbury Academic, 2023).

Melanie Smallman is Associate Professor in Science and Technology Studies and Co-Director of the Responsible Research and Innovation Hub at University College London (UCL). Melanie’s research looks at the role of science and innovation (particularly data-technologies and artificial intelligence [AI]) in increasing inequality, and how the social impacts of these technologies can be included in ethical and policy considerations.

Victoria Tischler is Professor of Behavioural Science in the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences at the University of Surrey, UK. She is a Chartered Psychologist and Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society. Her research focuses on creativity and mental health and multisensory (especially olfactory) approaches to promoting healthy ageing. She has expertise in medical and health humanities and on untrained (outsider) art.

Charlotte Veal, PhD, is a Lecturer in Landscape in the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape and Co-Director of The Landscape Collaboratory at Newcastle University, UK. She has an accelerating international research profile for interdisciplinary research at the intersection of bodies, performance and (bio-)security. Her research into interspecies relations (virus, seaweed) is underpinned by post-humanist and post-structuralist thinking in conjunction with experimental creative-arts methods with transdisciplinary audiences.

Jacky Waldock is Faculty Impact Fellow and Deputy Director of the Centre for Arts, Society and the Environment at the University of Liverpool, UK. She was previously a Postdoctoral Researcher on the Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded project Stay Home Stories. She is a specialist in sonic studies, researching sonic place-making and listening cultures in the home and has published a number of essays and articles on these topics.

Sue Walker is Professor of Typography at the University of Reading, UK. She has a longstanding interest in the history, theory and practice of information design. Her current research involves interdisciplinary working in communication design for antimicrobial resistance and in adolescent mental health, science communication for young people and COVID-19 rapid-response projects on home-testing.

Annabelle Wilkins is a Postdoctoral Researcher on the Nordforsk-funded Making It Home project at Kingston University London, and was a Postdoctoral Researcher on the Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded project Stay Home Stories. She is the author of Migration, Work and Home-Making in the City: Dwelling and Belonging among Vietnamese Communities in London (Routledge, 2019).

Sandra Wilks is Associate Professor at the University of Southampton, UK, with more than 20 years’ experience in the field of applied biofilm research, including highly interdisciplinary projects on food protection and medical device use and design. She has a particular interest in understanding the complexity of microbial communities, how to detect low levels of pathogens, and how we can communicate and gain a better understanding of microbial risk.

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Knowing COVID- 19

The pandemic and beyond

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