Memories of COVID-19: Geographies of Remembrance in Wales

  • Funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)
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Grant number: 2930547

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Key facts

  • Disease

    COVID-19
  • Start & end year

    2024
    2028
  • Known Financial Commitments (USD)

    $0
  • Funder

    UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)
  • Principal Investigator

    N/A

  • Research Location

    United Kingdom
  • Lead Research Institution

    Swansea University
  • Research 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