(Mis)understanding the Coronavirus and How it Was Handled in the UK: An Analysis of Public Knowledge and the Information Environment

Cushion, Stephen; Morani, Marina; Kyriakidou, Maria; Soo, Nikki

doi:10.1080/1461670x.2021.1950564

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“…The Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (Wales) Regulations 2020 was approved by Senedd (Welsh Parliament) in March, with amendments in April granting the Welsh Government emergency powers to manage certain aspects and impacts of the pandemic. However, devolution also caused confusion when the Prime Minister referred, during UK television briefings, to lockdown measures without clarifying that the changes were relevant only to England (Cushion et al , 2020).…”

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Coronavirus’ exposure of food, place and community resilience: a Welsh local authority perspective

Jones

Lane

Prosser

2022

JPMD

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Purpose Coronavirus has accentuated the cracks within the fragile UK food system. Empty shelves and empty stomachs, the damaging consequences of coronavirus have led to an unprecedented increase in food insecurity and food access. The purpose of this paper is to provide in-depth insight into varied and innovative rural localised responses to food access during the pandemic. Design/methodology/approach This study draws on multiple perspectives of those working to combat food insecurity, inequality and inaccessibility in Gwynedd, exploring food access initiatives and their responses to the pandemic, innovative food distribution collaborations and the role of maintaining already fragile rural communities. Findings This study concludes that the need for transformative place-making to build stronger, more resilient communities has never been more pressing, with support from public sector funding to help alleviate some of the hardships and pressure with the rise in poverty and austerity, coronavirus imposed or not. Originality/value This study focuses on a single local authority area in North Wales, Gwynedd, an area where little food research has been published to date. The coronavirus pandemic also places the timely research within the scope of food access and distribution during hardship. This study discusses the impacts exposed by the pandemic and lessons that can be drawn and reflected on for future benefit.

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Coronavirus’ exposure of food, place and community resilience: a Welsh local authority perspective

Jones

Lane

Prosser

2022

JPMD

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“…We appreciate the subjective nature of coding and question whether it is possible to judge qualitative inquiry by criteria such as reliability. We found detailed consensus-building team meetings (Creswell, 2013) successful for reaching consensus and maximising coding consistency.…”

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Framing of the COVID-19 pandemic:

Solvoll¹,

Høiby²

2023

MedieKultur

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The COVID-19 pandemic has caused both a widespread public health crisis and a global economic crisis, disrupting every aspect of our lives, health, education, jobs, and social life. To provide the public with trustworthy and continuously updated information and stories during uncertain times, newsrooms have made pandemic coverage a priority. Conducting a content analysis of Norwegian news and debate programs on radio and television throughout 2020, we found that the frames most dominant in news broadcasts were the least used frames in debate programs, and vice versa. Overall, the five most common frames were societal consequences, economic consequences, medical risk, government measures, social behaviour, and risk. This suggests that the COVID-19 pandemic was contextualized as an economic and social crisis as well as a health crisis. However, the lack of politicization, conflict and responsibility frames, suggests media coverage missed a critical perspective.

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“…A 'four nations' approach was followed at first, but subsequent divergences were noted (see Kippin & Cairney, 2021;and Cairney & Kippin, 2022). This served to heighten the understanding of the extent of devolution for those living in England and the London based media which (eventually) learned to specifically differentiate between English and UK measures (Cushion et al, 2020). This continued differentiation highlighted the relative powers between the mayors of the CAs and FMs.…”

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Coordination, agenda-setting, and future planning: the role of Combined Authorities during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Kippin,

Morphet

2023

irpp

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Following an intermittent and halting roll-out, Combined Authorities (CAs) are now an established part of English governance. They represent a ‘pooling’ of competences by different geographically contiguous local authorities which approximately align with economic geographies and have emerged with strong encouragement from central government. Today, they cover most of England’s large urban centres and enjoy a modest and variable range of permissions to act over planning, transport, and economic development. Since their establishment, they have grown in profile, owing in part to the presence of Directly Elected Mayors, who provide the model with executive leadership, visibility, and electoral legitimacy. The period of the Covid-19 pandemic provides an opportunity to assess their role and influence and to explore how this changed during and as a result of this period of sustained national emergency. Drawing upon publicly available data related primarily – but not exclusively – to three CAs (West Midlands, Teesside, and Liverpool), we conclude that they have played three main overlapping roles. Firstly, they have proven to be engaged in coordination and mediation between regional stakeholders. Secondly, they have proved influential as agenda setters, drawing attention to central government failure. Thirdly, they have acted within their regeneration and planning competences to strategise the economic and urban futures of their city-regions.

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(Mis)understanding the Coronavirus and How it Was Handled in the UK: An Analysis of Public Knowledge and the Information Environment

Cited by 12 publications

References 9 publications

Coronavirus’ exposure of food, place and community resilience: a Welsh local authority perspective

Coronavirus’ exposure of food, place and community resilience: a Welsh local authority perspective

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Coordination, agenda-setting, and future planning: the role of Combined Authorities during the COVID-19 Pandemic

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