Memories of COVID-19: Geographies of Remembrance in Wales
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Grant number: 2930547
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Key facts
Disease
COVID-19Start & end year
20242028Known Financial Commitments (USD)
$0Funder
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)Principal Investigator
N/A
Research Location
United KingdomLead Research Institution
Swansea UniversityResearch Priority Alignment
N/A
Research Category
Secondary impacts of disease, response & control measures
Research Subcategory
Social impacts
Special Interest Tags
N/A
Study Type
Non-Clinical
Clinical Trial Details
N/A
Broad Policy Alignment
Pending
Age Group
Unspecified
Vulnerable Population
Unspecified
Occupations of Interest
Unspecified
Abstract
The World Health Organisation (WHO, 2023) no longer considers the COVID-19 pandemic a global health emergency, and the lockdowns feel like they happened long ago (Ogden and Piovesan, 2022). The pandemic has had a significant impact on people's lives, and exploring collective memory offers insight into meanings we ascribe to events and how these meanings are contested (Land, 2023), through, for example, the lens of 'vulnerable' people. This thesis will explore the national and political implications of remembering the pandemic, and begins from the premise that commemoration forms a central aspect of making sense of this collective experience of rupture