scholarly journals Stay Home, Stay Safe Proximity as Vitality ad Vulnerability Under Lockdown

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-29
Author(s):  
Leo Hopkinson ◽  
Lydia House
Keyword(s):  
Social Isolation ◽  
Third Sector ◽  
Public Rhetoric ◽  
Anthropological Theory ◽  
Research Article ◽  
Adverse Impacts ◽  
Ethnographic Interview ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Uk

From March to May 2020 in the UK, measures that became known across the world as ‘lockdown’ curtailed personal freedoms in order to curb the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus. While initial criticisms of lockdown focused on the adverse impacts of social isolation on wellbeing, this research article explores how lockdown creates new and altered proximities and intimacies as well as distances. During the initial UK lockdown, the ‘household’ and ‘home’ were deployed in public rhetoric as default spaces of care and security in the face of widespread isolation and uncertainty. However, emergent proximities created by bringing people together in the assumed safety of home also deepened existing inequalities and vulnerabilities. Using anthropological theory, third sector evidence, and ethnographic interview data we explore this process. We argue that understanding proximity and intimacy as fundamentally ambivalent, not normatively affirming, is central to recognising how pandemic responses such as lockdown reinforce and reproduce existing forms of inequality and violence.

Addressing food poverty in the UK

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Greenwood
Keyword(s):  
Social Isolation ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Emotional Support ◽  
Third Sector ◽  
Community Life ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Uk

The foodbank network The Trussell Trust does not only give emergency food supplies, but also offers emotional support and a growing range of practical projects via the More Than Food programme to help tackle poverty-related issues. The mission is to bring communities together to end hunger and poverty in the UK by providing compassionate, practical help while challenging injustice. This chapter details the different programmes The Trussell Trust have devised and thereby examines some external challenges the London network faces. The chapter concludes that poverty and hunger are often amplified through social isolation. It suggests that more work needs to be done in order to increase collaboration across sectors, and specifically between the government, third sector, and businesses. There is increased need for more community life, and the fostering of social relations appears ever greater.

scholarly journals Social isolation and quarantine in the COVID-19 pandemic: impacts on mental health and quality of population life

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. e30510212535
Author(s):  
Gabriel Kiaro Leite Nunes ◽  
Karinne Alice Santos de Araújo ◽  
Thais Ranielle Souza de Oliveira ◽  
Marcelina da Conceição Botelho Teixeira ◽  
Ieler Ferreira Ribeiro ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Isolation ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Definitive Treatment ◽  
World Population ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Impact

The COVID-19 pandemic brought about major changes in the lifestyle of the world population. Due to the lack of vaccines or a definitive treatment for disease, governments around the world have adopted social isolation and quarantine as methods to control the spread of the virus. Objective: Thus, the objective of this study was to discuss how social isolation and quarantine periods affected people's mental health and quality of life during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: An integrative literature review was carried out during the COVID-19 pandemic between March and September 2020, establishing the following guiding question: How did social isolation and quarantine affect the mental health and quality of life of the population in the COVID-19 pandemic? Results: The final sample consisted of nineteen (19) articles, two (2) addressed depression during the pandemic period, three (3) presented the pandemic and the relationship with sociodemographic aspects, five (5) analyzed mental health in the pandemic, four (4) reported the impact of COVID-19 on the population's style and quality of life and the last five (5) demonstrated the quality of human relationships and emotional aspects in the face of the pandemic. Conclusion: It was demonstrated that isolation and the quarantine period had a negative impact on the population's quality of life and long-term mental health.

Are UK otorhinolaryngologists maintaining their research output?

2013 ◽  
Vol 127 (6) ◽  
pp. 556-561 ◽  
Author(s):  
K Kulkarni ◽  
M Kulkarni ◽  
J Ramsden ◽  
P Silva
Keyword(s):  
Research Output ◽  
Research Articles ◽  
Article Type ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Uk

AbstractBackground:In the general surgical and anaesthetic literature, there has been a decline in research output originating from the UK. This study analysed the 10 globally leading and 2 UK leading otorhinolaryngology journals to determine whether this trend was also reflected within otorhinolaryngology.Methods:Citable research output was analysed from 4 individual years, over a 10-year period (2000–2010), to determine absolute output, geographical mix and article type.Results:The proportion of research output from the UK and Ireland grew 22.8 per cent among the leading global otorhinolaryngology journals, but fell 28.6 per cent among the leading two UK otorhinolaryngology journals. The converse trend was true for the USA and Canada. Output from European and the rest of the world grew among both sets of journals, while Japanese output fell. ‘Research’ articles remained the most prevalent type.Conclusion:These results are encouraging as they refute the fall in UK research output observed by other authors. In the face of growing challenges, it is important to maintain published output so that the fate that has befallen other specialties is not mirrored within UK otorhinolaryngology.

scholarly journals Jizz and the joy of pattern recognition: Virtuosity, discipline and the agency of insight in UK naturalists’ arts of seeing

2011 ◽  
Vol 41 (6) ◽  
pp. 769-790 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Ellis
Keyword(s):  
Pattern Recognition ◽  
Potential Difference ◽  
Distinct Form ◽  
Diagnostic Characteristics ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
Gestalt Perception ◽  
Varied Form ◽  
The Uk ◽  
And Control

Approaches to visual skilling from anthropology and STS have tended to highlight the forces of discipline and control in understanding how shared visual accounts of the world are created in the face of potential differences brought about by multi-sensorial perception. Drawing upon a range of observational and interview material from an immersion in naturalist training and biological recording activities between 2003 and 2009, I focus upon jizz, a distinct form of gestalt perception much coveted by naturalist communities in the UK. Jizz is described as a tacit and embodied way of seeing that instantaneously reveals the identity of a species, relying upon but simultaneously suspending the arduous and meticulous study of an organism’s diagnostic characteristics. I explore the potential and limitations of jizz to allow for both visual precision and an enchanted and varied form of encounter with nature. In so doing, I explore how the specific characteristics of wild, intangible and irreverent virtuoso performance work closely together with disciplining taxonomic standards. As such, discipline and irreverence work together, are mutually enabling, and allow for an accommodation rather than a segregation of potential difference brought about by perceptual variety.

scholarly journals Refugee, Migrant and Asylum Seekers’ Experience of Accessing and Receiving Primary Healthcare in a UK City of Sanctuary

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosie Scott ◽  
Emer Forde ◽  
Clare Wedderburn
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Primary Healthcare ◽  
Third Sector ◽  
World Health Organisation ◽  
Further Education ◽  
World Health ◽  
Healthcare Provision ◽  
The World ◽  
Translation Services ◽  
The Uk

AbstractThe World Health Organisation estimate there are about 1 billion migrants in the world today. The scale of population movement and a global refugee crisis presents an enormous challenge for healthcare provision, and too often the specific health needs of refugees and migrants are not met. This study assessed refugee, asylum seeker and vulnerable migrants’ (AMRs') experience of front line primary healthcare in a region of the United Kingdom designated as a ‘City of Sanctuary’. A questionnaire study explored the views of people seeking refuge and third sector workers supporting them. The majority of AMRs were registered with a GP and positive about their consultations. The views of third sector workers provided a less favourable window into their experience of primary care. In conclusion, the work highlighted patchy experience of primary care, even in a region of the UK designated as a ‘City of Sanctuary’ for people seeking refuge. There is a need for further education of rights to care in the UK, information for people on how to navigate local healthcare systems, consistent access to routine health checks and translation services.

scholarly journals ‘A Procedure Without a Problem’, or the face transplant that didn’t happen. The Royal Free, the Royal College of Surgeons and the challenge of surgical firsts

2021 ◽  
pp. medhum-2020-012106
Author(s):  
Fay Bound Alberti ◽  
Victoria Hoyle
Keyword(s):  
Royal College ◽  
Working Party ◽  
Surgical Innovation ◽  
Face Transplant ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
Surgical History ◽  
The Media ◽  
International Issues ◽  
The Uk

Face transplants are an innovative and unusual form of modern surgery. There have been 47 face transplants around the world to date, but none as yet in the UK. Yet in 2003, the UK was poised to undertake the first face transplant in the world. The reasons why it didn't take place are not straightforward, but largely unexplored by historians. The Royal College of Surgeons, concerned about the media attention given to face transplants and the ethical and surgical issues involved, held a working party and concluded that it could not give approval for face transplants, effectively bringing to a halt the UK’s momentum in the field. This extraordinary episode in medical history has been anecdotally influential in shaping the course of British surgical history. This article explores and explains the lack of a face transplant in the UK and draws attention to the complex emotional, institutional and international issues involved. Its findings have implications beyond the theme of face transplants, into the cultural contexts and practices in which surgical innovation takes place.

scholarly journals SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS IN THE TIME OF COVID-19 PANDEMIC

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ayushi Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Social Isolation ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Psychosocial Impact ◽  
Global Crisis ◽  
Social Distancing ◽  
Research Article ◽  
Important Measure ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World

The world is dealing with global crisis due to COVID-19 which appeared as a threatening pandemic. With the increasing number of positive cases, there has also been a visible psychosocial impact. Many people have isolated themselves and are quarantined in their own homes. Social distancing is mandatory for everyone, as it is the most important measure to avoid this virus. Social isolation usually leads to chronic loneliness and also affecting the social relationships. This research article will bring forth the importance of social relationships in the time of COVID-19 Pandemic.

scholarly journals How did luxury brands do to overcome the COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Qinglong Ma
Keyword(s):  
Social Isolation ◽  
Product Innovation ◽  
Luxury Brands ◽  
Management Personnel ◽  
Brand Culture ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
Huge Impact ◽  
Luxury Industry

2020 is destined to be a year written in history. There is an unprecedented global outbreak of plague. By December 2020, there have been more than 78 million cases in the world, and more than 17 million patients died. The epidemic not only causes huge casualties in the world, but also has a huge impact on the economic world, especially for the luxury industry since the interests of the luxury industry largely depend on physical stores, offline services and other physical profit-making methods. The social isolation caused by the epidemic will greatly affect the income of offline services. This paper will make a detailed analysis of how the luxury industry spent the epidemic from three aspects: raising the price, increasing brand online operation services, and strengthening brand culture and product innovation. This paper will point out the excellent enterprises and brands in the face of difficulties in the face of excellent adaptability, as well as the brand internal management personnel excellent economic mind and wisdom.

scholarly journals The third sector in a strategically selective landscape – the case of commissioning public services

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
ROB MACMILLAN ◽  
ANGELA ELLIS PAINE
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Basis ◽  
Public Services ◽  
Third Sector ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
The Third ◽  
Third Sector Organisations ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Third Sector ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Theoretical Foundations

Abstract In the context of a mixed economy of welfare, public policy in the UK and elsewhere has long promoted third sector involvement in delivering public services. A growing research literature consistently highlights the challenges third sector organisations face engaging with a demanding public services commissioning environment, but it tends to lack a theoretical basis and can offer misleading accounts of third sector organisations as relatively passive and powerless in the face of wider forces. This article argues that third sector organisations actively operate within and seek to shape a commissioning context which advantages some strategies and some types of organisation over others. To provide stronger theoretical foundations for understanding public services commissioning and the third sector, the concept of ‘strategic selectivity’ (Hay, 2002) is applied to in-depth qualitative longitudinal data from third sector organisations delivering a range of public services. The article contributes new theoretical insights into the dynamic ways in which social policies and public services are organised. The analysis highlights how differently positioned organisations seek to read, navigate pathways through, and transform an uneven public services commissioning landscape.

International Listening Post report summary: the world at the dawn of 2019

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-124
Author(s):  
Sandy Henderson ◽  
Ulrike Beland ◽  
Dimitrios Vonofakos
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Faroe Islands ◽  
The South ◽  
The World ◽  
The Uk

On or around 9 January 2019, twenty-two Listening Posts were conducted in nineteen countries: Canada, Chile, Denmark, Faroe Islands, Finland, Germany (Frankfurt and Berlin), Hungary, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy (two in Milan and one in the South), Peru, Serbia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Turkey, and the UK. This report synthesises the reports of those Listening Posts and organises the data yielded by them into common themes and patterns.

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