Student gives back during COVID-19 crisis by working in a care home – Nottingham Trent University
MSc Management and Business Analytics international student Dishant Chavan wants to give back to others, whilst building his transferable skills. Dishant has worked in corporate roles for a Fortune 500 company in Technical Sales Engineering, before pursuing the MSc Management and Business Analytics. He saw an opportunity to improve his transferable skills, gain new and […]
Students raise over £13,000 for Shakespeare’s Globe – Kings College London
Former King’s students raise over £13,000 for Shakespeare’s Globe Alumni of the Shakespeare Studies MA conducted a 48-hour readathon to help save the iconic London theatre Like many theatres, Shakespeare’s Globe is struggling to find funding after closing due to the COVID-19 pandemic. To help raise much-needed funds and awareness of the theatre’s plight, a […]
Law students volunteer to provide advice online – The University of Manchester
A group of 40 law students from The University of Manchester are set to volunteer their services during their holidays to help people affected by the coronavirus pandemic. From Monday, 15 June, the students will be providing written and video advice online in five areas of law particularly impacted by the virus – carers, family, […]
COVID-19 hits the north of England harder than the south, BAME groups at higher risk and the positive environmental impacts of lockdown – 29th May
Study suggests urgent need for coronavirus testing in care homes – Imperial College London
A team of academics from the UK Dementia Research Institute (UK DRI) has undertaken a coronavirus outbreak investigation in four London nursing homes. The research, which has not yet been peer-reviewed, showed 26 percent of residents across four nursing homes died between March and May, three times the rate in previous years. We found that a […]
COVID generation faces ‘dark age’ of low social mobility – London School of Economics
The unprecedented economic and educational shocks of the COVID-19 pandemic could inflict long-term damage to young people’s prospects in life, a new study finds. According to the authors, the ‘COVID generation’ – young Britons currently under the age of 25 – face declining social mobility unless bold moves are made to create a fairer society […]
How a BBC experiment is being used to offer insight into COVID-19 tracking – UEA
Data from a BBC citizen science experiment has helped predict how different strategies could control the spread of Covid-19 – according to new preliminary research from the University of East Anglia, Oxford University and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Contagion! The BBC Four Pandemic was a massive citizen science experiment that collected […]