Covid-19 and Democracy Podcast @100 Pt.2: Policy and Standards, and Partygate

Exploring Vaccine hesitancy

This episode on vaccine hesitancy features Josh Bullock * Josh is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Sociology at Kingston University, London. * He is a Co-Author of: What causes COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy? Ignorance and the lack of bliss in the United Kingdom [https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-022-01092-w] The Covid-19 and Democracy Podcast is an output of The Covid-19 and Democracy Project, which is based at Kingston University, London. The podcast aims to capture in real-time the fervent intellectual debate at the intersections between the Covid-19 pandemic and democratic politics and policy. Principle Investigator and podcast Presenter and Producer: Pete Finn (p.finn@kingston.ac.uk) Follow: @C19andDemoProj [https://twitter.com/C19andDemoProj] Original music by Sovereign Heights [https://www.facebook.com/sovereignheights/]

Covid-19 and Democracy Podcast @100 Pt.2: Policy and Standards, and Partygate

Next week we will reach 100 episodes! These episodes, recorded since October 2020, have touched on a wide range of subjects and featured dozens of guests. This episode contains some of the most interesting and intriguing insights we have managed to develop on the podcast over the last two year and these 100 episodes. This episode is the second of three episodes exploring these insights. The episode explores how the intersections between Covid-19 pandemic, standards in UK public life, UK policy, and partygate. This episode features: Arianna Giovannini [https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/M7Fh6l0JQtb] Patrick Diamond [https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/LLKReQ4IQtb]. Sophie Hill [https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/U84ETZwgPtb]. Elizabeth David-Barrett [https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/fWvc6MQfPtb]. Robin Pettitt [https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/Tiob7EGgPtb]. Sam Power [https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/uuISOTpgPtb]. Robert Ledger [https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/e2YewIlgPtb]. Anna Sanders [https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/sBctlDhgPtb]. The Covid-19 and Democracy Podcast is an output of The Covid-19 and Democracy Project, which is based at Kingston University, London. The podcast aims to capture in real-time the fervent intellectual debate at the intersections between the Covid-19 pandemic and democratic politics and policy. Principle Investigator and podcast Presenter and Producer: Pete Finn (p.finn@kingston.ac.uk) Follow: @C19andDemoProj [https://twitter.com/C19andDemoProj] Original music by Sovereign Heights [https://www.facebook.com/sovereignheights/]

Covid-19 and Democracy Podcast @100 Pt.1: Education

Next month we will reach 100 episodes! These episodes, recorded since October 2020, have touched on a wide range of subjects and featured dozens of guests. This episode contains some of the most interesting and intriguing insights we have managed to develop on the podcast over the last two year and these 100 episodes. This episode is the first of three episodes exploring these insights. The episode explores how the Covid-19 pandemic has impacted higher education. This episode features: * Tab Betts of the University of Sussex [https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/LMbCWLGfDtb]. * Mel Haywood of Birmingham City University [https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/opjoOYzfDtb]. * Sam Saunders then of the University of Chester (now University of Liverpool) [https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/FFiabUDfDtb]. * Sophie Robbins, who is a BSc Nursing student at Kingston University [https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/CyG6jZwfDtb]. * Jane Bryan of the University of Warwick [https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/fQ8ADdqfDtb]. * Simon Varwell of Student partnerships in quality Scotland (sparqs) [https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/xdOe7AufDtb]. * Eliana Elkhoury of Athabasca University [https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/TJOpkznfDtb]. * Peter Bryant of The University of Sydney Business School [https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/mpOjebqfDtb]. The Covid-19 and Democracy Podcast is an output of The Covid-19 and Democracy Project, which is based at Kingston University, London. The podcast aims to capture in real-time the fervent intellectual debate at the intersections between the Covid-19 pandemic and democratic politics and policy. Principle Investigator and podcast Presenter and Producer: Pete Finn (p.finn@kingston.ac.uk) Follow: @C19andDemoProj [https://twitter.com/C19andDemoProj] Original music by Sovereign Heights [https://www.facebook.com/sovereignheights/]

Covid-19 and UK State Capitalism

This episode on UK state capitalism and the Covid-19 pandemic features Dr Anna Grosman, who is a Reader in Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Loughborough University, London. * Anna is the co-author of: A very British state capitalism: Variegation, political connections and bailouts during the COVID-19 crisis [https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0308518X211072545]. * Anna is the author of: COVID bailouts helped politically connected businesses more than others [https://theconversation.com/covid-bailouts-helped-politically-connected-businesses-more-than-others-new-research-177489]. The Covid-19 and Democracy Podcast is an output of The Covid-19 and Democracy Project, which is based at Kingston University, London. The podcast aims to capture in real-time the fervent intellectual debate at the intersections between the Covid-19 pandemic and democratic politics and policy. Principle Investigator and podcast Presenter and Producer: Pete Finn (p.finn@kingston.ac.uk). Follow: @C19andDemoProj [https://twitter.com/C19andDemoProj] Original music by Sovereign Heights [https://www.facebook.com/sovereignheights/]

Community engagement improves decision making: Democracy & the Covid-19 Pandemic

This episode exploring Democracy & the Covid-19 Pandemic features Professor Graham Smith [https://www.westminster.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/directory/smith-graham] of the University of Westminster. Themes discussed in the this episode are developed in the book Democracy in a Pandemic: Participation in Response to Crisis [https://www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk/site/books/e/10.16997/book57/], edited by Graham Smith and Tim Hughes, with Lizzie Adams and Charlotte Obijiaku, University of Westminster, 2021 The Covid-19 and Democracy Podcast is an output of The Covid-19 and Democracy Project, which is based at Kingston University, London. The podcast aims to capture in real-time the fervent intellectual debate at the intersections between the Covid-19 pandemic and democratic politics and policy. Principle Investigator and podcast Presenter and Producer: Pete Finn (p.finn@kingston.ac.uk). Follow: @C19andDemoProj [https://twitter.com/C19andDemoProj] Original music by Sovereign Heights [https://www.facebook.com/sovereignheights/]