Publications & Reports – Pandemics: Past, Present and Future

Dr. Heather Battles

Phillip Roberts and Heather T. Battles (2021) Measles and scarlet fever epidemic synergy and evolving pathogenic virulence in Victoria, Australia, 1853–1916. Social Science History 45(1): 187–217. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1017/ssh.2020.41
This is the ‘read-only’ sharing link (allowing anyone to view/read, but not download, the entire article): https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/social-science-history/article/measles-and-scarlet-fever-epidemic-synergy-and-evolving-pathogenic-virulence-in-victoria-australia-18531916/7915365660DAE8493050AB68B9393E43/share/3da7319b9e4b2858ccb74570973af53ffe39cbf5
Sara Dada, Heather Battles, Caitlin Pilbeam, Bhagteshwar Singh, Tom Solomon, and Nina Gobat (2021) Learning from the past & present: Social science implications for COVID-19 immunity-based documentation. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 8:219.https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-021-00898-4
Heather T. Battles and Rebecca J. Gilmour (2022) Beyond mortality: Survivors of epidemic infections and the bioarchaeology of impairment and disability. Bioarchaeology International.https://doi.org/10.5744/bi.2021.0003 Published online (Early View) 6 December 2021:http://journals.upress.ufl.edu/bioarchaeology/article/view/1649
Dimka, J., van Doren, T. P., & Battles, H. T. (2022). Pandemics, past, and present: The role of biological anthropology in interdisciplinary pandemic studies. American Journal of Biological Anthropology, 1– 36. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24517

Dr. Louisa Buckingham

Yuanyuan Xu & Louisa Buckingham (2021): Adaptation to emergency remote teaching: an ESOL course for older Chinese learners, Open Learning: The Journal of Open, Distance and e-Learning. https://doi.org/10.1080/02680513.2021.1967116
Dong, J., Buckingham, L., & Wu, H. (2021). A discourse dynamics exploration of attitudinal responses towards COVID-19 in academia and media. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics. https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/ijcl.21103.don

Dr. Andrew Chen

Blog Posts:

https://informedfutures.org/the-trade-offs-for-digital-data-and-contact-tracing/

https://informedfutures.org/hard-decisions-in-digital-contact-tracing/

https://informedfutures.org/digital-giants-enter-digital-contact-tracing/

https://informedfutures.org/on-fragmentation-of-digital-contact-tracing-registers/

Public Lecture on Digital Technology for Contact Tracing: https://informedfutures.org/koi-tu-webinar-digital-technology-for-contact-tracing/
M Kaiser, ATY Chen, P Gluckman, “Should policy makers trust composite indices? A commentary on the pitfalls of inappropriate indices for policy formation”, under peer review with Policy Sciences, 2020. Preprint:https://rdcu.be/chhDv
ATY Chen, K Thio, “Exploring the Drivers and Barriers to Uptake for Digital Contact Tracing”, Social Sciences and Humanities Open, 4(1), 100212, 2021: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S259029112100108X
ATY Chen, “How Fragmentation Can Undermine the Public Health Response to COVID-19”, ACM Interactions, 28(2), pp 64-69, 2021: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3448413

Dr. Jesse Hession Grayman

Ensor, Lauren and Grayman, Jesse Hession (2020) “Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Problems with Project Roomkey in the COVID-19 Pandemic” Somatosphere http://somatosphere.net/2020/problems-with-project-roomkey.html/
Ngin, Chanrith; Grayman, Jesse Hession; Neef, Andreas; and Sanunsilp, Nichapat (2020). “The role of faith-based institutions in urban disaster risk reduction for immigrant communities” Natural Hazards, 103, 299-316. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11069-020-03988-9 (not covid-related, or even specifically about pandemics, but this is what we leveraged for the small MBIE grant on FBOs during and after Covid in Auckland)
Grayman, Jesse Hession; Ngin, Chanrith; and Neef Andreas (2019) Disaster Preparedness and Resilience among Auckland’s Southeast Asian Communities (technical report for Auckland Council and Auckland Emergency Management, same as a above re: not covid/pandemic specific, but worth including because it illustrates our partnerships with local stakeholders) https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/handle/2292/47698

Dr. Monique Jonas

Amanda Evans, Monique Jonas and John Lantos, ‘Paediatric palliative care in a pandemic: role obligations, moral distress and the care that you can give.’ Pediatrics 146 (2020): 1-8
Lilian Ng, Monique Jonas and Phillipa Malpas, ‘What is the Risk of Moral Injury to Front Line Health Workers?/https://www.thebigq.org/2020/04/13/what-is-the-risk-of-moral-injury-to-frontline-health-workers-%F0%9F%94%8A/
Naomi Simon-Kumar, Rachel Simon-Kumar and Monique Jonas. Revisioning State-Society Relationships in Pandemic: New Zealand’s Response to Covid-19. COVID-19, States and Societies. Paper 9. Johannesburg: Public Affairs Institute.

Prof. Robin Kearns

Kearns, Robin (2021). Narrative and metaphors in New Zealand’s efforts to eliminate COVID-19. Geographical Research, 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-5871.12492

Prof. Jamie King

“Supporting Health Care Competition In The Era Of COVID-19: Three Legislative Models For States, ” Health Affairs Blog, January 4, 2021. DOI: 10.1377/hblog20201221.230335
“State Policies To Make Health Care More Affordable During COVID-19 And Beyond, ” Health Affairs Blog, January 8, 2021. DOI: 10.1377/hblog20210104.466003
King, J. S. (2020). Covid-19 and The Need for Health Reform. New England Journal of Medicine, 382 (26), e104-e104. 10.1056/NEJMp2000821

Dr. Rochelle Menzies

Hunia, R., Salim, S., McNaughton, S., Gluckman, P., Menzies, R. & Bardsley, A. (2020). Addressing education challenges facing rangatahi after COVID-19 – A Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei and Koi Tū: The Centre for Informed Futures Partnership report. Auckland: Koi Tū: The Centre for Informed Futures. Available at: https://informedfutures.org/wp-content/uploads/Addressing-rangatahi-education.pdf
Poulton, R., Gluckman, P.,Menzies, R., Bardsley, A., McIntosh, T., & Faleafa, M. (2020). Protecting and Promoting Mental Wellbeing: Beyond COVID-19. Auckland: Koi Tū: The Centre for Informed Futures. Available at: https://informedfutures.org/wp-content/uploads/Protecting-and-Promoting-Mental-Wellbeing.pdf
Menzies, R. (5 April 2020). The need for inclusive and deliberative decision-making in the COVID-19 pandemic. Koi Tū: The Centre for Informed Futures. Available at: https://informedfutures.org/inclusive-and-deliberative-decision-making-in-the-covid-19-pandemic/
Menzies, R. (1 May 2020). A pandemic response framework for equitable and inclusive planning and decision-making. Koi Tū: The Centre for Informed Futures. Available at: https://informedfutures.org/a-pandemic-response-framework-for-equitable-and-inclusive-planning-and-decision-making/

Associate Steve Matthewman

Publications, Reviews and Comments:

Matthewman, S. & Huppatz, K. (2020) ‘A Sociology of COVID-19’, Journal of Sociology, 56(4): 507–515.
Matthewman, S. & Uekusa, S. (2021) ‘Theorizing Disaster Communitas’, Theory & Society, Springer Science+Business Media: US, 16 March, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11186-021-09442-4
Matthewman, S. & Huppatz, K. (2020) ‘A Sociology of COVID-19’, Journal of Sociology, 56(4), 81 pages.
Matthewman, S. (ed.) in progress. A Research Agenda for COVID-19 and Society, Elgar Research Agendas: Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, UK.
Matthewman, S. (2020) ‘Disaster Communism’, Online Special: Living and Thinking Crisis, Thesis Eleven, 15 July, available: https://thesiseleven.com/2020/07/15/disaster-communism/
Matthewman, S. & Huppatz, K. (2020) ‘A Sociology of the Pandemic’, Transformational Responses to COVID-19, Carework Network, available: http://careworknetworkresponds.com/2020/10/16/a-sociology-of-the-pandemic-caring-for-carers/

Associate Professor Susanna Trnka

Strong, T.P., Trnka, S. and L.L. Wynn. (2021)“‘L’enfer, c’est les autres’: Proximity as an Ethical Problem During COVID-19.” Cultural Anthropology. 36(3): 342-349. available: https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.14506/ca36.3.01
Trnka, S. (2021) “Be Kind: Negotiating Ethical Proximities in Aotearoa/New Zealand during COVID-19.”Cultural Anthropology. 36(3): 368-380. available: https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.14506/ca36.3.04

Dr. Lara Greaves

Greaves, L. M. & Morgan, E. (2021). Māori and the 2020 General Election In S Levine (Ed.), Politics in a Pandemic: Jacinda Ardern and the 2020 Election. Wellington, NZ: Victoria University Press.

Creative work:

Matthewman, S. (2020) ‘Pale Horses, Black Swans – The More Things Change’, ‘Pale Horses, Black Swans – An Island’, in Harwood, A. (ed.) Life in the Time of Corona: An Anthology of Short Stories, Melbourne: Mana Press, pp. 18-22, 72-80.

Webinars:

Co-chair: Matthewman, S. & Huppatz, K. (2020) Panel Session: ‘A Sociology of COVID-19’, Australian Social Sciences Week, 7 September: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ql_pQ0m27sQ
Matthewman, S. (2020) ‘A Sociology of COVID-19: International Reflections for Local Directions’, [Una sociología de COVID-19: reflexiones internacionales para orientaciones locales] presented to colleagues at the Center for Research in Social Sciences, El Colegio de Sonora, Mexico, 9 October: https://www.facebook.com/ColSonora/videos/253489346085667

Assoc.Prof Gregory Minissale

Law, M., Minissale, G., Lambert, A., Nater, U. M., Skoluda, N., Ryckman, N., … Broadbent, E. (2020). Viewing landscapes is more stimulating than scrambled images after a stressor: A cross-disciplinary approach. Frontiers in Environmental Science, online first DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.03092

Professor Tim Mulgan

Mulgan, T., Enright, S., Grix, M., Jayasuriya, U., Ka‘ili, T, Lear, A., Māhina, A., Māhina, O., Matthewson, J., Moore, A., Parke, E. C., Schouten, V., Watene, K., 2021, ‘Charting Just Futures for Aotearoa New Zealand: Philosophy For and Beyond the Covid-19 Pandemic’, Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, forthcoming. DOI: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03036758.2021.1896559

Professor Andreas Neef

Neef, A. (2020). Legal and social protection for migrant farm workers: lessons from COVID19. Agriculture and Human Values 37, 641–642. 10.1007/s10460-020-10086-w

Assoc. Prof. Susanna Trnka

2020. Trnka, Susanna. “From Lockdown to Rāhui and Teddy Bears in Windows – Initial Responses to Covid-19 in Aotearoa/New Zealand.” Anthropology Today. 36(5):11-13. October. https://rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14678322
2020. Trnka, Susanna. “Rethinking States of Emergency.” Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale. 28(2): 367-8. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1469-8676.12812
2020. Trnka, Susanna. “First in Masks? How Czechs Wore Face Masks When There Weren’t Any Available.” Somatosphere: Science, Medicine and Anthropology. July 21. http://somatosphere.net/2020/first-in-masks.html/
2020. Trnka, Susanna. “Lockdown: The Centrality of Movement in Our Lives.” Cornell University Press Blog. May 29, 2020. Invited by the editor. https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/lockdown-the-centrality-of-movement-in-our-lives
2021. Trnka, Susanna, et al. Negotiating Risk and Responsibility: Affect and Ethical Reasoning in New Zealanders’ Lived Experiences of Lockdown. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand COVID-19 supplement. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03036758.2020.1865417.

Stefano Riela

https://www.thebigq.org/2020/07/28/has-the-covid-19-crisis-pushed-solidarity-in-the-european-union/

Professor Lisa Samuels

Samuels, L. Breach. Norwich: Boiler House Press, forthcoming 2021.
Samuels, L. “Breach as Flow in the Pandemic Learning Room”. Knowledge Cultures, 8(2), 61-64. https://doi:10.22381/KC8220209

Dr. Danping Wang

Wang, D., Zhao, Y. (2020). Introduction to the special issue of “A digital future of Chinese language teaching”. International Journal of Chinese Language Teaching, 1(1), I-V. https://doi.org/10.46451/ijts.2020.06.06
Wang, D., & East, M. (2020). Constructing an Emergency Chinese Curriculum during the Pandemic: A New Zealand Experience. International Journal of Chinese Language Teaching. 1 (1) 1-19. https://doi.org/10.46451/ijclt.2020.06.01

Reports:

Erin Stieler (2021). Studying abroad during a pandemic: Challenges and experiences of resilience amongst international students in Aotearoa New Zealand. Research Report.

Access to Full Report: Studying abroad during a pandemic report

Phillip Roberts and Heather T. Battles (2021) Measles and scarlet fever epidemic synergy and evolving pathogenic virulence in Victoria, Australia, 1853–1916. Social Science History 45(1): 187–217. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1017/ssh.2020.41

Sara Dada, Heather Battles, Caitlin Pilbeam, Bhagteshwar Singh, Tom Solomon, and Nina Gobat (2021) Learning from the past & present: Social science implications for COVID-19 immunity-based documentation. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 8:219.https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-021-00898-4

Dimka, J., van Doren, T. P., & Battles, H. T. (2022). Pandemics, past, and present: The role of biological anthropology in interdisciplinary pandemic studies. American Journal of Biological Anthropology, 1– 36. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24517

Yuanyuan Xu & Louisa Buckingham (2021): Adaptation to emergency remote teaching: an ESOL course for older Chinese learners, Open Learning: The Journal of Open, Distance and e-Learning. https://doi.org/10.1080/02680513.2021.1967116

Dong, J., Buckingham, L., & Wu, H. (2021). A discourse dynamics exploration of attitudinal responses towards COVID-19 in academia and media. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics. https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/ijcl.21103.don

Blog Posts:

Public Lecture on Digital Technology for Contact Tracing: https://informedfutures.org/koi-tu-webinar-digital-technology-for-contact-tracing/

M Kaiser, ATY Chen, P Gluckman, “Should policy makers trust composite indices? A commentary on the pitfalls of inappropriate indices for policy formation”, under peer review with Policy Sciences, 2020. Preprint:https://rdcu.be/chhDv

ATY Chen, K Thio, “Exploring the Drivers and Barriers to Uptake for Digital Contact Tracing”, Social Sciences and Humanities Open, 4(1), 100212, 2021: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S259029112100108X

ATY Chen, “How Fragmentation Can Undermine the Public Health Response to COVID-19”, ACM Interactions, 28(2), pp 64-69, 2021: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3448413

Ensor, Lauren and Grayman, Jesse Hession (2020) “Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Problems with Project Roomkey in the COVID-19 Pandemic” Somatosphere http://somatosphere.net/2020/problems-with-project-roomkey.html/

Amanda Evans, Monique Jonas and John Lantos, ‘Paediatric palliative care in a pandemic: role obligations, moral distress and the care that you can give.’ Pediatrics 146 (2020): 1-8

Lilian Ng, Monique Jonas and Phillipa Malpas, ‘What is the Risk of Moral Injury to Front Line Health Workers?/https://www.thebigq.org/2020/04/13/what-is-the-risk-of-moral-injury-to-frontline-health-workers-%F0%9F%94%8A/

Naomi Simon-Kumar, Rachel Simon-Kumar and Monique Jonas. Revisioning State-Society Relationships in Pandemic: New Zealand’s Response to Covid-19. COVID-19, States and Societies. Paper 9. Johannesburg: Public Affairs Institute.

Kearns, Robin (2021). Narrative and metaphors in New Zealand’s efforts to eliminate COVID-19. Geographical Research, 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-5871.12492

“Supporting Health Care Competition In The Era Of COVID-19: Three Legislative Models For States, ” Health Affairs Blog, January 4, 2021. DOI: 10.1377/hblog20201221.230335

Menzies, R. (5 April 2020). The need for inclusive and deliberative decision-making in the COVID-19 pandemic. Koi Tū: The Centre for Informed Futures. Available at: https://informedfutures.org/inclusive-and-deliberative-decision-making-in-the-covid-19-pandemic/

Menzies, R. (1 May 2020). A pandemic response framework for equitable and inclusive planning and decision-making. Koi Tū: The Centre for Informed Futures. Available at: https://informedfutures.org/a-pandemic-response-framework-for-equitable-and-inclusive-planning-and-decision-making/

Publications, Reviews and Comments:

Matthewman, S. & Huppatz, K. (2020) ‘A Sociology of COVID-19’, Journal of Sociology, 56(4): 507–515.

Matthewman, S. & Uekusa, S. (2021) ‘Theorizing Disaster Communitas’, Theory & Society, Springer Science+Business Media: US, 16 March, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11186-021-09442-4

Matthewman, S. & Huppatz, K. (2020) ‘A Sociology of COVID-19’, Journal of Sociology, 56(4), 81 pages.

Matthewman, S. (ed.) in progress. A Research Agenda for COVID-19 and Society, Elgar Research Agendas: Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, UK.

Matthewman, S. (2020) ‘Disaster Communism’, Online Special: Living and Thinking Crisis, Thesis Eleven, 15 July, available: https://thesiseleven.com/2020/07/15/disaster-communism/

Matthewman, S. & Huppatz, K. (2020) ‘A Sociology of the Pandemic’, Transformational Responses to COVID-19, Carework Network, available: http://careworknetworkresponds.com/2020/10/16/a-sociology-of-the-pandemic-caring-for-carers/

Strong, T.P., Trnka, S. and L.L. Wynn. (2021)“‘L’enfer, c’est les autres’: Proximity as an Ethical Problem During COVID-19.” Cultural Anthropology. 36(3): 342-349. available: https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.14506/ca36.3.01

Trnka, S. (2021) “Be Kind: Negotiating Ethical Proximities in Aotearoa/New Zealand during COVID-19.”Cultural Anthropology. 36(3): 368-380. available: https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.14506/ca36.3.04

Greaves, L. M. & Morgan, E. (2021). Māori and the 2020 General Election In S Levine (Ed.), Politics in a Pandemic: Jacinda Ardern and the 2020 Election. Wellington, NZ: Victoria University Press.

Creative work:

Matthewman, S. (2020) ‘Pale Horses, Black Swans – The More Things Change’, ‘Pale Horses, Black Swans – An Island’, in Harwood, A. (ed.) Life in the Time of Corona: An Anthology of Short Stories, Melbourne: Mana Press, pp. 18-22, 72-80.

Webinars:

Co-chair: Matthewman, S. & Huppatz, K. (2020) Panel Session: ‘A Sociology of COVID-19’, Australian Social Sciences Week, 7 September: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ql_pQ0m27sQ

Law, M., Minissale, G., Lambert, A., Nater, U. M., Skoluda, N., Ryckman, N., … Broadbent, E. (2020). Viewing landscapes is more stimulating than scrambled images after a stressor: A cross-disciplinary approach. Frontiers in Environmental Science, online first DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.03092

Neef, A. (2020). Legal and social protection for migrant farm workers: lessons from COVID19. Agriculture and Human Values 37, 641–642. 10.1007/s10460-020-10086-w

2020. Trnka, Susanna. “From Lockdown to Rāhui and Teddy Bears in Windows – Initial Responses to Covid-19 in Aotearoa/New Zealand.” Anthropology Today. 36(5):11-13. October. https://rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14678322

2020. Trnka, Susanna. “Rethinking States of Emergency.” Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale. 28(2): 367-8. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1469-8676.12812

2020. Trnka, Susanna. “First in Masks? How Czechs Wore Face Masks When There Weren’t Any Available.” Somatosphere: Science, Medicine and Anthropology. July 21. http://somatosphere.net/2020/first-in-masks.html/

2020. Trnka, Susanna. “Lockdown: The Centrality of Movement in Our Lives.” Cornell University Press Blog. May 29, 2020. Invited by the editor. https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/lockdown-the-centrality-of-movement-in-our-lives

2021. Trnka, Susanna, et al. Negotiating Risk and Responsibility: Affect and Ethical Reasoning in New Zealanders’ Lived Experiences of Lockdown. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand COVID-19 supplement. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03036758.2020.1865417.

https://www.thebigq.org/2020/07/28/has-the-covid-19-crisis-pushed-solidarity-in-the-european-union/

Samuels, L. Breach. Norwich: Boiler House Press, forthcoming 2021.

Samuels, L. “Breach as Flow in the Pandemic Learning Room”. Knowledge Cultures, 8(2), 61-64. https://doi:10.22381/KC8220209

Wang, D., Zhao, Y. (2020). Introduction to the special issue of “A digital future of Chinese language teaching”. International Journal of Chinese Language Teaching, 1(1), I-V. https://doi.org/10.46451/ijts.2020.06.06

Wang, D., & East, M. (2020). Constructing an Emergency Chinese Curriculum during the Pandemic: A New Zealand Experience. International Journal of Chinese Language Teaching. 1 (1) 1-19. https://doi.org/10.46451/ijclt.2020.06.01

Reports:

Erin Stieler (2021). Studying abroad during a pandemic: Challenges and experiences of resilience amongst international students in Aotearoa New Zealand. Research Report.