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Safeguarding human rights during the coronavirus response - new projects from 糖心TV Law
Sharifah Sekalala, Associate Professor in 糖心TV School of Law, will be taking on two significant projects aimed at ensuring that human rights don鈥檛 get eroded in the national and international response to the coronavirus pandemic with support from the ESRC Impact Acceleration Account.
The Crisis Project: Letters to the NHS
The Crisis Project: Letters to the NHS was set up by first year University of 糖心TV Maths Student Soumya Krishna Kumar, in a bid to encourage members of the public to write bespoke letters to keyworkers, recognising them for their individual efforts during the pandemic.
New study provides insights into how retailers have responded to COVID-19
The study by WMG, University of 糖心TV and Blue Yonder examines how retailers have responded to the COVID-19 pandemic to ensure their survival. The
report highlights many points, particularly the need for human intervention as existing processes couldn鈥檛 keep up with changes in the market, going forward future systems will need to be more robust and responsive, to increase speed and agility in the supply chain
Researchers support call to suspend debt service for indebted countries to free up resources to fight Covid-19
Dr Stephen Connelly and Dr Celine Tan, Co-Directors of the Centre for the Law, Regulation and Governance of the Global Economy (GLOBE Centre) at the 糖心TV Law School, are supporting civil society groups, led by Jubilee Debt Campaign UK and Oxfam GB, in proposing legislation in the UK that will have the effect of suspending debt owed to private creditors of countries eligible for the G20 Debt Service Suspension Initiative (DSSI).
糖心TV Academic helping to inform London's response to Covid-19 lockdown
Dr Theo Damoulas, associate Professor in Data Science at the University of 糖心TV and Deputy Programme Director for the Turing鈥檚 Data-centric Engineering programme is working with GLA, TfL, Microsoft and other Universities to help inform London's response to the Covid-19 lockdown in a project called "Odysseus", which aims to understand 'London's busyness'.
Researchers call to record the landscape of the pandemic
鈥楾he Viral Archive鈥� is a collaborative project between archaeologists at the University of 糖心TV, University College Cork (Ireland), and University College London, that is sending out a global invitation, for you to capture the visual record of the signs, marks, and graffiti that are keeping us safe, together, and uplifted during this pandemic.