Communication and messaging during Covid-19 (Pandemic & Beyond)

What is the pandemic teaching us about how complex public health messages are received and how we can communicate them more effectively?

This webinar will communicate policy implications and recommendations from Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded studies conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic around the themes of:

• Improving public communication and understanding

• Combating misinformation, disinformation and rumour

• Engaging migrant and minority communities

• Managing behaviour on public transport

• Overcoming shame and stigma

Who should attend?

Policymakers, officials and stakeholders in national and local government; those with an interest in public health communications, emergency response management, transport, education

Zoom link

Topic: Pandemic & Beyond: Communication and messaging during COVD-19

Time: Mar 15, 2022 02:00 PM London

https://Universityofexeter.zoom.us/j/95626311518?pwd=WmZrbkFrUVV5cHk4UndldXIvOGRKZz09

Meeting ID: 956 2631 1518

Password: COVID19

Format

Lightning presentations from speakers followed by open questions and discussion.

Speakers

Speakers from the following AHRC studies:

• Communicating the Pandemic 

• Coronavirus Discourses

• Infodemic: Combatting COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories

• Routes of Infection, Routes to Safety: Creative Mapping of Human-Viral Behaviours on the Bus to Understand Infection Prevention Practices

• Cultural translation and the interpretation of Covid-19 risks among London’s migrant communities

• Scenes of Shame and Stigma in COVID-19

The session will be chaired by Professor Des Fitzgerald (University of Exeter).

A Zoom link, along with speaker and presentation details and briefing papers for each project will be circulated to attendees following registration.

About the organisers

This event is being organised by the Pandemic and Beyond team, with the support of Culture Commons.

The Pandemic and Beyond is a project funded by the AHRC that brings together 70+ teams of researchers across the UK who are exploring the wide-ranging impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and looking for solutions. Find out more about us and our work here.

Culture Commons amplifies the voices of creative, cultural and research organisations who want their work to have an impact on policy at a local, national and international level.