This page is a collection of scientific articles and opinion pieces relating to COVID-19 and its impacts, by researchers at the Faculty of Social Sciences. The information on this page is in English; you will find articles in French on the French version of this page.
If you have written something that you would like us to add here, write to Mireille.Brownhill@uOttawa.ca.
Gordon Betcherman - Economics
- Reacting quickly and protecting jobs: The short-term impacts of the COVID-19 lockdown on the Greek labor market (COVID Economics, Issue 43, 21 August 2020)
- COVID-19 can teach us a lot about social protection and jobs: Reflections based on the Greek experience
Jacqueline Best - Political Studies
Ivy Lynn Bourgeault - Sociology and Anthropology
- New study finds professional workers, especially women, report significantly higher rates of mental health distress during the pandemic
- Healthy Professional Worker Partnership: Preliminary Comparative Findings
- COVID-19 Impacts on the Mental Health and Substance Use Health (MHSUH) Workforce in Canada
Abel Brodeur - Economics
- Here's how the coronavirus is affecting Canada's labour market
- Webinar On Demand: Socioeconomic Consequences of COVID-19 (Hosted by Dean Vicky Barham)
- COVID-19, Stay-At-Home Orders and Employment: Evidence from CPS Data
- On the Effects of COVID-19 Safer-At-Home Policies on Social Distancing, Car Crashes and Pollution
- The Short-Term Economic Consequences of COVID-19: Occupation Tasks and Mental Health in Canada
- COVID-19, Lockdowns and Well-Being: Evidence from Google Trends
- Explaining Governors' Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States
- Stay-At-Home Orders, Social Distancing and Trust
Abel Brodeur & David Gray - Economics
Stephen Brown - Political Studies
- Covid vaccine apartheid and the failure of global cooperation
- Canada and global vaccine equity: timid, late and insufficient
- Canada’s COVID-19 vaccine fix
- The Impact of COVID-19 on Foreign Aid
- The impact of COVID-19 on development assistance
Nathalie Burlone & Eric Champagne - Political Studies & Centre on Governance
- Translating COVID-19 emergency plans into policy: A comparative analysis of three Canadian provinces
- One Virus, Four Continents, Eight Countries: An Interdisciplinary and International Study on the Psychosocial Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic among Adults
- The WHO’s risky communication strategy created confusion around COVID-19
Jude Mary Cénat - Psychology
- Prevalence of symptoms of depression, anxiety, insomnia, posttraumatic stress disorder, and psychological distress among populations affected by the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review and meta-analysis
- Ethno-cultural disparities in mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional study on the impact of exposure to the virus and COVID-19-related discrimination and stigma on mental health across ethno-cultural groups in Quebec (Canada)
- Social inequalities and collateral damages of the COVID-19 pandemic: when basic needs challenge mental health care
- The vulnerability of low-and middle-income countries facing the COVID-19 pandemic: The case of Haiti
Eric Champagne - Political Studies
Marie-Eve Desrosiers - International Development and Global Studies
- Apprecating the politics of the pandemic
- As universities move classes online, let's not forget the digital divide
Patrick Fafard - Public and International Affairs
- Under the spotlight: understanding the role of the Chief Medical Officer in a pandemic
- The politics and policy of Canada's COVID-19 response
- Why pandemic era border closures are about symbolism not science
- Public health and political science: challenges and opportunities for a productive partnership
- Can Art Influence Global Health Policy?
Ryan Katz-Rosene - Political Studies
André Laliberté - Political Studies
- Religion and superspreader events
André Lecours - Political Studies
Melissa Marschke - International Development and Global Studies
- COVID-19, instability and migrant fish workers in Asia
- On the Coattails of globalization: migration, migrants and COVID-19 in Asia
- Industrial seafood systems in the immobilizing COVID-19 moment
Lauchlan Munro - International Development and Global Studies
- A day late and a dollar short: Canada’s humanitarian assistance in response to COVID-19
- COVID-19 Lays Bare the Pseudo-Science of the Index Industry
- The COVID Pandemic: Lessons for Global Public Policy
- The SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic: Lessons for International Development
- COVID-19 Forces a Rethink of an Old Debate
Costanza Musu - Public and International Affairs
Michael Orsini - Feminist and Gender Studies
- Feeling critical: navigating the emotional worlds of COVID-19
- Governing COVID-19 without government in Brazil: Ignorance, neoliberal authoritarianism, and the collapse of public health leadership
- Governing COVID in Brazil: Dissecting the Ableist and Reluctant Authoritarian
Roland Paris - Public and International Affairs
Nicholas Rivers - Public and International Affairs
- Canadian electricity markets during the COVID-19 pandemic: An initial assessment
- Power demand in the time of COVID-19
Scott Simon - Sociological and Anthropological Studies
- Science and Technology in Canada-Japan Relations: Facing Together the Challenges of COVID-19 and Beyond
- Wayfaring in Taiwan during COVID-19: Reflections on Political Ontologies of Disease and Geopolitics
Susan Spronk - International Development and Global Studies
Meg Stalcup - Sociological and Anthropological Studies
Valerie Steeves - Criminology
- Children’s privacy is at risk with rapid shifts to online schooling under coronavirus
- For teenagers, the internet helps during lockdowns but it’s no substitute for the outside world
Geneviève Tellier - Political Studies
- Beyond COVID‐19: Five commentaries on expert knowledge, executive action, and accountability in governance and public administration (Lessons from the Great Financial Crisis (GFC) to COVID‐19: budgetary responses and future challenges)
Srdjan Vucetic - Public and International Affairs
Jennifer Wallner - Political Studies
- COVID-19 shows the cracks in public education – here’s how to repair them
- Canada needs a more collaborative approach to reopening schools
Wesley Wark - Public and International Affairs
Sanni Yaya - International Development and Global Studies
- Tracking the uptake and trajectory of COVID-19 vaccination coverage in 15 West African countries: an interim analysis
- Building resilient health systems in Africa beyond the COVID-19 pandemic response
- Civil disorder, authority credibility and public health: Chile’s unique sociopolitical context in dealing with COVID-19
- Globalisation in the time of COVID-19: repositioning Africa to meet the immediate and remote challenges
- Mental Health and the COVID-19 Pandemic in Chile
- Mental health and psychosocial well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic: the invisible elephant in the room
- Tackling COVID-19: Can the African continent play the long game?
- Emerging infectious diseases and outbreaks: implications for women’s reproductive health and rights in resource-poor settings
- Ethnic and racial disparities in COVID-19-related deaths: counting the trees, hiding the forest