Epidemiology Unbound We invite papers to join a shared submission for a symposium to the 2026 joint ESHS & HSS meeting at Edinburgh. Symposia, for this meeting, constitute a group of two to four organised sessions on the same subject or theme. Organisers will submit the symposium as a whole, but all participants will […]
We are delighted to publish the final programme of our forthcoming online workshop on Data and Disease in Historical Perspective. Please get in touch with the organiser John Nott directly if you are interested in participating.
Programme of Data and Disease Read More »
Both public and professional understandings of COVID-19 have been cultured by the epidemiological data which has been made, and made available, over the course of the pandemic. The inconsistent nature of this data, across and between nations, has been a notable barrier in the elucidation of the pandemic’s global spread. As our recent experience suggests,
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We invite researchers from all areas, places and career stages to visit the Epidemy Lab in Edinburgh and to collaborate with the team on research relating to the modern history of epidemiology. This call is open to anyone whose work aligns with the broad aims and goals of the research carried out within the ERC-funded
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Contagion & Calculus An Epidemy Project Workshop June 16th to June 17th 2022 ABOUT THIS WORKSHOP Models have guided the Covid-19 pandemic response with unprecedented authority. The workshop seeks to push beyond this very recent horizon to show that the success story of infectious disease modelling is deeply interwoven with the history of science and
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Deadline extended to 10th March 2022. Workshop at the University of Edinburgh, 16 & 17 June 2022. Organised by the ERC-funded project The Epidemy, A History of Epidemiological Reasoning (http://epidemy.org ) Models have guided the Covid-19 pandemic response with unprecedented authority. While many predictions over the last 20 months have been subject to heated
Call for Papers: Contagion and Calculus. Histories of modelling epidemics. Read More »
It has been a turbulent week in the unending UK Covid-19 story. On Wednesday, the pandemic briefings of the UK government returned, yet without any plan or measures announced to curb the rising numbers, which – once again – place the UK firmly at the helm of mismanaging this pandemic in Europe and beyond. However,
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Last week, the German government announced – together with the WHO – the opening of a new Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence in Berlin. Funded with 100 million USD, the hub promises to protect and prepare in ways which global institutions have failed through the Covid-19 pandemic of 2019 to 2021. At the heart
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The projects featured on this website have received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 947872 (TER), from the Wellcome Trust through the Institutional Support Fund (ISSF3) at the University of Edinburgh (Models in Media), from the British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grant Scheme (Tabulation) and from the University of Edinburgh’s Chancellor’s Fellowship (Digital Epidemiology).
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