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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"COVID-19 lockdowns"”.
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Figuring the Middle Ground: A Search for Authorship in Perceiving China's COVID-19 Lockdowns
… to comprehend China’s controversial response to COVID-19 over the past three years from a geographically distant yet culturally and emotionally intimate standpoint, I have grappled with multiple perspectives, sometimes as an insider, sometimes as an outsider, and most of the time as an impostor …
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Food matters - escaping to the garden during Covid-19 lockdowns and (re-)connecting with food
… growing food in their home-gardens during the Covid-19 pandemic lockdowns in England, UK during 2020-2021. With people confined to their homes under law in attempts to stem the spread of the virus, the UK government recommended that people undertook daily exercise outdoors for the benefit of …
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Essays on Spatial Constraints and Gender Equality: the Impact of COVID-19 Lockdowns on Work-from-Anywhere Dynamics and Gender Equality in Job Searches
… and gender equality by leveraging the COVID-19 lockdowns as a natural experiment to study the impact of work-from-anywhere (WFA) dynamics on job search behaviors. The introduction of mandatory lockdowns drastically shifted the labor market landscape, prompting an increase in the demand …
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Playing It By Ear: Improvised Music Livestreaming During COVID-19
The beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020 was marked by widespread improvisatory practice, be those teachers and students improvising to accommodate online learning or individuals improvising safety tactics to avoid catching the virus. Within mere weeks of the pandemic rendering …
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Leveraging digital transformation to address women's challenges in the technology industry
… growth of remote work technologies during the COVID-19 lockdowns and the wide acceptance of hybrid working policies after the pandemic, this thesis explores the transformative potential of digital technologies in addressing the persistent challenges faced by women in this historically …
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Canada First Is Inevitable: Analyzing Youth-Oriented Far-Right Propaganda on TikTok
… part due to the perfect storm created by the COVID-19 lockdowns and the Black Lives Matter protests – and has recently begun to spawn culturally distinct offshoots outside of the United States into countries like Canada. This thesis will therefore examine the discursive practices of the …
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Resilience of small-scale farmers amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic: a case study of small-scale farmers in Limpopo Province, South Africa
This qualitative study examines the impact of COVID-19 lockdowns on small-scale farmers in Limpopo, South Africa. The closure of various market channels such as street vendors, restaurants, hotels and large social gatherings by the government left these farmers susceptible to market shocks, given …
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How Does it Heal? Isolation and Re-engaging in Education the Role of Trauma Related Practice in a Post-Pandemic Britain
The Covid-19 pandemic, its multiple lockdowns and restrictions have had a well documented and often discussed effect on the mental health and wellbeing on the whole of the UK and more particularly, on school children who have missed significant periods of schooling (BBC, 2020). Research suggests …
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A mixed methods study exploring whether referral to the Internal Inclusion Unit results in change to pupil behaviour and exploring the student’s perceptions of the facility.
… this with an allocation of £10 million (DfE, 2019d), and the Covid-19 lockdowns believed to have amplified behavioural issues in schools (DfE, 2020c), their numbers are only set to increase. Consequently, this research explored the use of one London-based IIU: identifying whether referral to the …
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Disentangling the 'enigmatic mass' of home education discourse : a Foucault influenced analysis
… in the years immediately following the global COVID-19 pandemic, a period that significantly disrupted societal norms. Among these norms, regular school attendance was one of the most widely suspended or altered. This disruption created an opportunity to reconsider taken-for-granted knowledge …
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Trauma-informed care in the classroom : a qualitative study of teachers who effectively create safe spaces for all students.
Studies showed that the COVID-19 lockdowns significantly affected teenagers' mental health (Branquinho et al., 2020; Chen et al., 2020; Gazmarian et al., 2021; Guessoum et al., 2020; Joseph, 2020; Magson et al., 2020; McKegney, 2021; Meyers, 202; Smith et al., 2020). Following the lockdown, …
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Exploring Youth Relationships with Nature Using Qualitative GIS
… including abrupt changes such as the COVID-19 lockdowns and differing exposure to EE programming, on how and where youth relate with nature and conceptualize what nature is. We integrated qualitative data and analysis with GIS and developed a codebook to interpret meanings embedded in …
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Multi-state modelling to estimate infectious disease burden
… claiming countless lives. As was demonstrated by COVID-19, our interconnected world is now more susceptible than ever to the global spread of an infectious disease pandemic. Despite advances in statistical methods and comprehensive public health surveillance, understanding the many facets of …
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Impact of SARS-COV2 pandemic on emergency surgical services at Groote Schuur Hospital
… was to determine the impact of the coronavirus 19 (COVID-19) pandemic on the number of emergency surgical operations performed at Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa. Methodology: The study was a retrospective cross-sectional study, comparing the number of emergency surgical …
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Realism, Storytelling and User Experience in HMD-based eXtended Reality for Holocaust Museum
Due to the COVID-19 lockdowns and travel restrictions, the demand for remote museumvisiting experiences has increased. Fortunately, technologies like Head Mounted Display (HMD)-based Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) have made HMD-based eXtended Reality Museum (HXRM) experiences …
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Online and brick-and-mortar museums in Central and Eastern Europe (1989-present)
… museums experienced their renaissance during the COVID-19 lockdowns. Even before 2020, however, they occupied a prominent – yet under-researched – place on Central and Eastern Europe’s commemorative landscape. Historians and museologists have analysed brick-and-mortar museums, but they mostly …
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Integrated coastal and ocean management of areas hosting marine mammals a case study in the strait of Gibraltar
… Gulf, New Zealand, was interrupted due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This abrupt change allowed us to investigate the effects of the human lockdowns, such as the reduction in maritime traffic, on the marine animals of the Gulf, contributing to the study of the global effects on nature. This thesis …
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The Intersections of Play Therapy, the COVID-19 Pandemic, and Lineages of Trauma
… for mental health research on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Due to the overwhelm of mental health care systems, this doctoral work took the shape of a multi-study project that allowed for the exploration of different interactions between the topics of play therapy, trauma, and the COVID-19 …
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Imposing restrictions in the fight against COVID-19: the case of Bogotá
… sus estrategias contra la propagación de la COVID-19 basándose en medidas diseñadas por países de ingresos altos. La literatura muestra que los costes son más altos en el primer grupo, por lo que calcular los beneficios de las medidas es crucial para la toma de decisiones por parte de los …