Sophie Yarker, our researcher based at the University of Manchester, has written a blog for Discovre Society on The Changing Role of Social Infrastructure in response to COVID-19. 

She reflects that our social infrastructure and the shared spaces where we have social interactions may not have entirely ‘disappeared’ in recent months but, due to the covid-19 pandemic, we are no longer able to use them in the ways we used to. Commercial establishments deemed non-essential have temporarily closed and social distancing has been enforced in the spaces that remain open.

Read it in full here.