When the Covid-19 pandemic started, few had heard of lateral flow tests or imagined they would become part of everyday life. An initial scale-up of centralised mass-testing was followed by…Read More >
Covid-19
How the pandemic has brought equality of access to healthcare into sharp focus
On the third anniversary of COVID-19 being declared a pandemic, Rachel Horton – Associate Professor in the School of Law at the University of Reading – considers how the pandemic…Read More >
On the Disability History Month theme of health and wellbeing
There are over 1 billion disabled people in the world (WHO, 2011), making up around 15% of the global population, a community that has grown as a consequence of the…Read More >
Celebrating disabled creativity on International Day of Persons with Disabilities
On the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, the United Nations writes, “The commitment to realizing the rights of persons with disabilities is not only a matter of justice; it…Read More >
Tackling health inequalities in Reading: Community Participatory Action Research 2021–2022
A new report offers a series of recommendations for tackling health inequalities in Reading, including improving translation and interpretation services and engaging local community groups as partners in culturally-sensitive service…Read More >
Diverse cemetery and crematoria needs during Covid-19
Two years on from the World Health Organization’s declaration of the Covid-19 global pandemic on 11 March 2020, this anniversary has been overshadowed by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. It…Read More >
COVID fallout hit farmers hard – they need better mental health support
A farmer’s lot is not an easy one. A difficult and demanding way of life, farming involves a huge range of challenges and stresses – among them isolation, climate change, and disease…Read More >
Merck v Pfizer: here’s how the two new COVID antiviral drugs work and will be used
We’ve waited 20 months for a medicine to blunt the coronavirus, and now two have appeared. Earlier this month, the UK medicines regulator approved molnupiravir, the COVID antiviral developed by…Read More >
Tokyo Olympics without crowds: will the home nation’s medal chances suffer?
The Tokyo 2021 Olympics will be the first Games to take place with no spectators. The sight of sparsely populated stadiums and arenas has, of course, become common during the pandemic…Read More >
Beckett our Contemporary
We at the Beckett Centre often draw on our spectacular archives of Beckett’s notes and manuscripts to examine the links between his work and the moment in which it was…Read More >