Our remit is global and our interests correspondingly wide. The below are indicative rather than fully comprehensive questions of relevance for our work and are arranged into ten overlapping categories.
The dynamic nature of world events and diplomatic work around them mean that we often need research based insights to help anticipate, shape, manage and benefit from unfolding developments and possible futures. The synthesised expertise of researchers can help us make judgements in a policy environment where experimental trials and replicable results are often impossible or inappropriate.
Because time can be of the essence we value emerging results and insights shared via updates, short events, websites and similar, in advance of peer reviewed articles.
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FCO Areas of research interest coronavirus COVID 19 update May 2020 GOVUK
Data from the 'Coronavirus and the Social Impacts on Great Britain' survey are used to assess social impacts as the COVID-19 crisis deepens. This project reports on the social impacts of the coronavirus pandemic on peopl...
Funded by: COVID
Lead research organisation: University of Strathclyde
This project reports on the social impacts of the coronavirus pandemic on people's health and subjective wellbeing (SWB) in Great Britain; reports on the public understanding of information about the coronavirus, along with people's behavioural responses and actions to prevent disease spread; reports on how individuals, families and communities are coping and managing risks, considering behavioural impacts and lifestyle changes and how people are building resilience during the pandemic and the social impacts under different conditions and governmental restrictions.
Period shocks, known in the field of demography as period effects, are environmental changes that occur at a specific time and are experienced by an entire society, affecting all ages and cohorts of people. These events ...
Funded by: Horizon Europe Guarantee
Lead research organisation: University of Oxford
This project analyzes the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic for maternal, fetal, and child health and develops a theoretical framework for conceptualizing the indirect pathways that period shocks affect population health and either exacerbate or equalize existing health inequalities.
While young people globally have been less impacted by COVID-19 health outcomes than have older age groups, they have been disproportionately affected with disruptions to both their education (access to school and 'onlin...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: University College London
This project seeks to understand how young people have adapted during the pandemic and assess the wider impact of such processes of adaptations, focusing on food, education, and play/leisure embedded within a wider understanding of the living settings and home/personal contexts.