Professor Steve Tombs from the OU and Professor Joe Sim from Liverpool John Moores University explore the numbers game that has been played by the Government since the start of the coronavirus crisis and question their efforts now to move on from it

Dr Rajiv Prabhakar, Senior Lecturer in Personal Finance at the OU, explores the role that Child Trust Funds, initiated by the Labour Government in 2002, could play in helping young people struggling with the financial effects of COVID-19

Dr Kathryn Medièn, OU Lecturer in Sociology, shares an interview she conducted with the authors of a recent report published by Patients Not Passports, a campaign which seeks to challenge the imposition of border controls within UK healthcare institutions

A project led by Marie Gillespie, Professor of Sociology, is exploring what it is like to be an asylum seeker, a refugee or an undocumented person under lockdown. Find out about the COVID-19 Chronicles from the Margins project 

Dr Aditya Ray, a Research Fellow in Geography at The Open University, speaks to Dr Amit Basole, Associate Professor of Economics at Azeem Premji University in India, about India's employment and migration crisis in the wake of the pandemic

Steve Tombs marks the third anniversary of the fire at Grenfell Tower which killed 72 people and changed forever the lives of many more; he does so through the lens of the ongoing COVID-19 crisis and the renewed critical attention to manifestations of structural racism

The team behind the HERA-funded European project, Moving Market Places, has produced a film exploring the impacts of COVID-19 on public marketplaces in a range of European countries and reflect on what these spaces may look like after the pandemic

Members of the Innovation for Cancer Care in Africa project team, Professor Smita Srinivas and Pritika Rao, highlight the importance of interdisciplinary cohesion in the response to COVID-19. Published by the Innogen Institute

In this video, Professor Sophie Watson, Head of Sociology at The Open University, speaks to Roger Smith, an expert in legal aid, human rights and access to justice, about the various impacts COVID-19 is having on the law

In an Open University webinar to be held on 1 July, we will explore the numerous issues around conducting research with mobile populations in a time of lockdown and social distancing. How do you conduct responsible, ethical research during a global pandemic?