Rights, Data and Modes of Justification in Response to COVID-19

Rights, Data and Modes of Justification in Response to COVID-19: Reflections from the First Year of the Pandemic

This webinar is brought to you by two AHRC-funded ‘observatories’ of UK responses to the COVID-19 pandemic:

• The Observatory for Monitoring Data-Driven Approaches to COVID-19 (OMDDAC); and

• The COVID-19 Review Observatory (CVRO)

In this session, each Observatory will discuss their initial findings and reflections from the first year of the pandemic, considering in particular the justifications put forward for COVID-19 responses, to reflect upon and assess the respective roles that data and human rights have (or have not) come to perform in this context.

Speakers:

• Rachel Allsopp is a Research Fellow at Northumbria University School of Law and OMDDAC Research Associate.
• Prof Fiona de Londras is Chair of Global Legal Studies at the University of Birmingham and is the CVRO's Principal Investigator.

Chair:

• Dr Marion Oswald is Vice-Chancellor’s Senior Fellow in Law at Northumbria University and Director of OMDDAC.

About the Observatories

OMDDAC is a collaboration between Northumbria University & the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) focusing on the data-driven approaches to COVID-19 and the associated legal, ethical, policy and operational challenges. OMDDAC will analyse key data-driven responses to the pandemic and collate lessons learned by way of stakeholder interviews, case study analysis, representative public surveys and practitioner-focussed guidelines.

The CVRO is a resource that records, tracks, and assesses reviews of responses to the COVID-19 pandemic from a human rights perspective. Based at the University of Birmingham, the CVRO studies what parliaments in Westminster, Belfast, Cardiff and Edinburgh are doing to subject government responses to the COVID-19 pandemic to review.

OMDDAC and CVRO are supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).

AHRC funds world-class, independent researchers in a wide range of subjects: history, archaeology, digital content, philosophy, languages, design, heritage, area studies, the creative and performing arts, and much more. This financial year the AHRC will spend approximately £98 million to fund research and postgraduate training, in collaboration with a number of partners. The quality and range of research supported by this investment of public funds not only provides social and cultural benefits and contributes to the economic success of the UK but also to the culture and welfare of societies around the globe.

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