Covid gone (Play Observatory PL56C1/S001/v1 © Louis and Jonathan Davis - reproduced with permission) is a short film that was contributed to The Play Observatory - an ESRC funded-project exploring children's play during the Covid-19 pandemic lockdowns. The film was made by a son and father: Louis & Jonathan Davis. The Play Observatory was a research partnership between by UCL Institute of Education, The University of Sheffield School of Education and CASA.
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9/23/2022
How can we design cities to prevent another pandemic? How do we engineer a city, its architecture and its infrastructure so that it works socially in an era of physical distancing
In the third of our Disruptive Thinkers video series, we focus on the ground breaking work from UCL PEARL (Person – Environment – Activity Research Laboratory) on designing a pandemic proof city. Prof. Nick Tyler, Dr. Liora Malki-Epshtein, Prof. Thorsten Stoesser, and Dr Taku Fujiyama (UCL Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering) talk about how we maintain social interactions in a physically distanced city, and how we can design better public transport to minimise virus transmission.
Every month we’ll be releasing a new video showing some of the disruptive thinking happening across our faculty, from designing more inclusive and pandemic-proof cities, to exploring how business can be more sustainable, right through to how fibre optics are innovating medical procedures.
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10/29/2021
Chair: Tony David
Ray Dolan, “Computational psychiatry and schizophrenia”
Susan Michie, “Behavioural science contributions to managing the pandemic"
Recorded on Wed 15th September 2021
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9/30/2021
Although human DNA is 98 per cent similar to that of the chimpanzee, the infections we catch are 80 per cent different. Most are new acquisitions that we have picked up as humans spread across the world. In fact, pandemic infections like smallpox and influenza only date from the last 12,000 years or so after we formed settled farming communities and later developed large colonies known as cities. Does the history of infectious diseases help to predict future epidemics?
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4/21/2021
Although human DNA is 98 per cent similar to that of the chimpanzee, the infections we catch are 80 per cent different. Most are new acquisitions that we have picked up as humans spread across the world. In fact, pandemic infections like smallpox and influenza only date from the last 12,000 years or so after we formed settled farming communities and later developed large colonies known as cities. Does the history of infectious diseases help to predict future epidemics?
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2/26/2021
"This is an Okay Experiment" is a spatial engagement project prepared for DEVP0003: Participatory Processes, Building for Development with Giovanna Astolfo.
The project is a collaboration between Lorenzo Balugani, Chiara Ferioli, Dina Mneimneh and Lina Slimpi that took place across three cities: Athens, Beirut and Bologna.
It is a social experiment that attempts to offer an opportunity for expression, spontaneity and creativity in public spaces, despite the effects of the pandemic.
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12/2/2020
Here at UCL, our researchers are using health data to understand COVID-19 in a variety of ways – from the spread of the virus, to exploring the effects of social distancing on our mental health, to finding out how underlying health conditions affect mortality rates, to improving healthcare outcomes for vulnerable children.
Four experts will present how they’re using our data to better understand the pandemic. A panel discussion, chaired by UCL alumna and broadcaster Vivienne Parry OBE, will follow exploring the ethical concerns and trust issues surrounding the collection and analysis of data for countering COVID-19 and improving public health.
Speakers & panelists
Professor Rob Aldridge | Virus Watch: applying public health data science to help stop the spread of COVID-19
Dr Daisy Fancourt | COVID-19 social study
Dr Amitava Banerjee | OurRisk.CoV: a risk calculator for the public by the public
Professor Ruth Gilbert | Improving healthcare outcomes for vulnerable children in a pandem
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