COVID 19 Expert database – call for humanities expertise

Along with all other scholarly academies, the Australian Academy of Humanities is inviting humanities researchers to register as experts for the Australian COVID 19 database to inform government future policy. The list of areas of humanities expertise suggested are:

  • lessons from past experiences of epidemics, pandemics and quarantine

  • community responses to the COVID-19 crisis

  • social distancing challenges for Indigenous communities and other cultural impacts

  • access and equity to essential services, including digital communications and technologies

  • ethical decision-making

  • translation and analysis of information for multilingual populations

  • the role of arts and culture in community building recovery and resilience.

Further information, including how to register, is available at: https://www.humanities.org.au/2020/04/06/call-for-humanities-expertise-on-covid-19-and-pandemics/

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