Claire O Connell

Your research is on changing health behaviour – a particularly a hot topic due to Covid-19. What is your work about? All of my research is about deve(...)

How are you doing during the Covid-19 restrictions? No, really, how are you feeling about it? Have your eating patterns changed? If you have a baby or(...)

You are doing your PhD on communications in pandemics, what perfect timing! “It is. It is not a surprise that we have had another pandemic; they are (...)

Open the windows more, especially when you cook and clean, use your extractor fan and do not mix cleaning products together. That’s the advice from a (...)

You work on vaccines that don’t need to be delivered using large needles, I like the sound of that. What are you developing? I am working on delivery(...)

Could a drug discovered in the 1970s help to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic? New evidence from research in Australia shows that the anti-parasitic drug (...)

Prof Turlough Downes usually applies his mathematical modelling skills to distant star systems, but he is now helping disease experts to model the cou(...)

There are two critical phases to global efforts against Covid-19; flattening the curve as cases ratchet up, and then re-emerging from lockdown gradual(...)

There are many confounding aspects of Sars-CoV-2 (its medical term), the virus that causes Covid-19. One is that we can’t see it with the naked eye. A(...)

How did Covid-19 come to be? It’s a puzzle that involves tolerant bats, possibly middlemen pangolins and a virus that gathered structures and tricks a(...)