Covid-19

Paul Anand, Professor of Economics at The Open University, writes for the London School of Economics. In his article, Paul discusses some of the challenges facing labour markets in light of the COVID-19 pandemic

Open University Professor of Criminology, Steve Tombs, writes for the Institute of Employment Rights. He asks, if the average workplace will only be inspected once every 275 years, how does Boris expect these Covid 'spot checks' to work?

In this pre-recorded interview, Dr Lorena Lombardozzi, Lecturer in Economics at the OU, speaks to Matt Huber, Associate Professor of Geography at Syracuse University about his article 'COVID-19 Shows Why We Must Socialize the Food System'

Theo Papaioannou, Professor of Politics, Innovation and Development at The Open University, argues in this article that combating COVID-19 will require global application of a non-ideal justice in innovation

In this post, Sarah Hadfield, an ESRC Grand Union PhD Researcher in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at The Open University, discusses if social distancing will increase the use of secondary data in research projects

Professor Parvati Raghuram and Dr Gunjan Sondhi from The Open University write for Open Democracy. For long, international students were not included in most migration debates because they were seen as temporary sojourners. Did things change?

In this powerful article, Dr David Scott, Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the OU and Professor Joe Sim from Liverpool John Moores University, highlight the impact of COVID-19 within prisons in the UK and the government's failure to act responsibly

In this article, published on the Transforming Society website, Dr Julia Downes, a Lecturer in Criminology, explores: 'Lessons from COVID-19: How transformative justice and mutual aid can help to address harm in communities'

Alan Shipman is a Lecturer in Economics at The Open University. Today, his article Inflation or deflation – which would be worse right now? has been published in The Conversation. His work has been republished as part of our series under a Creative Commons license

Letter by Dr Rajiv Prabhakar published in The Guardian today. Rajiv is a Senior Lecturer in Personal Finance at The Open University. His letter responds to an article by John Harris which argues Universal Basic Income could offer security to millions of people