Perceptions is a study of how a machine perceives a photograph at different layers within its neural network. We generate sets of pen strokes which are drawn by a robot using pen and ink on Bristol board. The illustrations are produced by maximising the similarity betwe...

The Covid-19 crisis calls for a major policy response from European governments, but should we be cautious about where these actions might lead? Jonathan White explains that while crises are typically when the need for action can seem strongest, it is exactly in such mo...

The outbreak of Covid-19 is a global health problem but its solutions might be regional. Abhishek Trvidei (South Asian University, New Delhi) argues that in the wake of the unprecedented challenges posed by Covid-19, SAARC countries should capitalise on their public com...

In Kept From All Contagion: Germ Theory, Disease, and the Dilemma of Human Contact in Late Nineteenth- Century Literature, Kari Nixon offers a new literary history exploring how late-nineteenth-century authors represented the conflict between the risk of contagion and v...

Ahead of presidential, parliamentary and local elections planned for 2021, urban food relief distribution in Uganda has become politicised as people struggle under COVID-19 lockdown measures. As narratives of ‘liberation’ resurface amid the government’s health response,...

Struggling with social distancing? Allow me to do my bit for #caremongering by sharing my very chonky Battle Cat, who will keep you 2 metres apart from the next body. What an incredibly useful work of art, for these testing times. https://weareunlimited.org.uk/catsuits-...

The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a substantial increase in waiting times for cystoscopies, prompting concerns of delayed diagnoses and substandard surveillance of bladder cancer. Expanding the role of urinary biomarkers in diagnostic and surveillance pathways could...

The recent outbreak of respiratory illness caused by a novel coronavirus (named “COVID-2019”) has gained attention globally and has been recognized as a serious public health threat by US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The first case was detected in W...

The rapid and unplanned change to teaching and learning in the online format brought by COVID-19 has likely impacted many, if not all, aspects of university students' lives worldwide. To contribute to the investigation of this change, this study focuses on the impact of...