Podcast Recommendation: Don't Tell Me the Score
This episode from Don't Tell Me the Score focuses on how to look after yourself at home during lockdown.
Podcast Recommendation: Woman's Hour - How do you feel about sending the kids back to school?
This episode from BBC Woman's Hour contains a section dedicated to understanding more about the possible implications of what will happen when schools reopen in the UK.
Podcast Recommendation: Hidden Brain
This episode from NPR Hidden Brain examines the power of social connection.
Podcast Recommendation: Grounded with Louis Theroux
Each day this week I will provide a link and brief description to a different podcast episode, the aims of which are to provide some insights on how different people are responding to life under...
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has claimed that for people living in poor parts of England and Wales are more likely to die from the coronavirus than people living in wealthier areas.
How coronavirus charts can mislead us
This short video from Vox highlights how the collection and presentation of data (in this case about the coronavirus) may not tell us the full story about an issue.
What happens when lockdown ends?
This video from BBC Newsnight explores what possible impacts there will be once the lockdown ends in the UK.
Rise in 'Corona divorce' in Japan
Although this is reportedly not isolated to (hetereosexual) couples living in Japan, this story about those living though the lockdown highlights how social media is being used to help couples vent...
It has been reported that patients from black African backgrounds that are suffering from coronavirus are more likely to die than white Britons.
Here is an interesting article about a woman who was raised in a Christian fundamentalist household and how she believes that her upbringing may have helped prepare her in some way for a global...
Doctors and Nurses Reveal the Devastating Reality of Covid-19
In this stark and emotional video, doctors and nurses working in the USA provide details of their experiences of treating individuals with Covid-19.
Thomas Lovejoy, a leading scientist who conducts research into biodiversity has suggested that the coronavirus pandemic is a result of the "vast illegal wildlife trade and humanity’s excessive...
Testing for Coronavirus
Here are two videos illustrating some of the differences in how countries have responded to the coronavirus.
The Pandemic Shows What Cars Have Done to Cities
In this article from The Atlantic the author discusses one of the consequences of the lockdown in cities like New York.
Here are the two videos that have just been published by Ofqual explaining the exams grading process for summer 2020.
Through TikTok, China is Showing us the Power of Comedy
This video from The Atlantic provides another positive effect of the power of an online community through the use of social media.
The volunteer army helping people to self-isolate neighbours
This article highlights and shines a light on some of the volunteers helping support the more vulnerable at this time.
Questions about the coronavirus
This video from The Economist attempts to answer some questions associated with the coronavirus.
India enters 'total lockdown' after spike in cases
How do you lockdown a city, or even an entire country as a result of COVID-19?
What is Sociology for?
When I first chose to study A-Level Sociology a few years ago now, some of my friends and relatives asked me why I would chose to study the subject over something more familiar like Biology or...