#WPRN21 conference goes one step further to encourage collective intelligence and foster interactivity. It is the first international forum bringing together researchers and practitioners from all areas of expertise and backgrounds working on the impacts of Covid-19.

Experts from all over the globe shared their insights and lessons learned from the pandemic in 9 Keynote presentations, as well as 6 topic panels comprising 39 research papers. The paper panels focused on 6 research hotspots.

Program

9 December 2021

• 10:30 - 11:00 - WPRN21 Conference Welcome

  Saadi Lahlou (Paris Institute of Advanced Studies, London School of Economics and Political Science)

  Flore Gubert (French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development, Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme)

  Maxi Heitmayer (London School of Economics and Political Science, University College London)

• 11:00 - 11:30 Keynote 1 - Economic epidemiology put to the test of the Covid-19 crisis: some emerging ideas and approaches

  Raouf Boucekkine (Rennes School of Business, Aix-Marseille School of Economics)

• 11:30 - 12:30 Paper Q&A session - News & Media Coverage

• Covid#Migrants: Tweeting on Migrants in the Covid-19 Context

• Informative Contagion: The Coronavirus in Italian journalism

• Topic modelling of COVID-19 Content in Japanese newspaper and Twitter -January to April 2020

• The Demography of Covid-19 Deaths Database

• 13:00 - 14:00 Paper Q&A sessions - Masks, Vaccinations & Compliance

• You See Me, You See Me Not–Masked Effects on An Environment Tangled in COVID-19

• The consequences of COVID‑19 on social interactions: An online study on face covering

• Metaphors for vaccination and defeasible reasoning

• Disparagement Humor Permits Unsafe COVID-19 Behaviors

• Role of Education, Risk Perception and Social Trust in Predicting Intent to get the Covid-19 Vaccine

• Interpersonal distance: modulation of individual and social behaviour related to the COVID 19 pandemic

• 14:00 - 15:00 Paper Q&A sessions - Economic & Financial Impacts

• The Economic and Financial Repercussions of COVID-19

• Survey of Living and Working in Coronavirus Times

• The Impact of Covid-19 on Distance Supermarket Sales

• Through Covid-19 while Poor

• COVID-19: Measuring Impacts and Prioritizing Policies for Recovery

• 15:30 - 16:00 Keynote 2 The impact of COVID on SMEs in China based on multiple rounds of surveys before and after the shock

  Xiaobo Zhang (International Food Policy Research Institute)

• 16:00 - 16:30 Keynote 3 : COVID‑19 and the value of safe transport in the United States

  Ted Loch-Temzelides (Rice University and The Baker Institute, Houston)

• 16:30 - 17:00 Keynote 4 Optimal combination of epidemic control policies: lessons from an expanded epidemic-economic model

  Andy Dobson (Princeton University)

• 17:00 - 17:30 Keynote 5 Social Cohesion, Inequality, and the Pandemic: Lessons from Brazil

  Elisa Reis (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)

• 17:30 - 18:00 Day 1 Closing

10 December 2021

• 10:45 - 11:00 Welcome to the Second Day

• 11:00 - 11:30 Keynote 6 Trading off lives and livelihoods in an ethical way, considering the apparent clash of interests between generations

  Marc Fleurbaey (Paris School of Economics)

• 11:30 - 12:00 Keynote 7 Emotional responses to the pandemic through the lens of text data

  Bennett Kleinberg (Tilburg University, University College London)

• 13:00 - 14:00 Presentation Q&A sessions - Education & Marginalised Communities

• The impact on Primary Science of the UK’s C-19 school closures

• Teachers' and Students' Adaptation to Emergency Remote Instruction During COVID-19 School Closures

• Home Schooling in Diverse Family Settings with Young Children during the First Covid Lockdown in France

• Disability Under Siege: An Analytical Framework for a Disability-Inclusive COVID-19 Recovery

• COVID-19 health seeking behaviour in marginalised settings - micro ethnographies from Bengaluru, India

• Researching Migration and Coronavirus in South(ern) Africa (MiCoSa)

• 14:00 - 15:00 Presentation Q&A sessions - Local Contexts & Policy

• Factors Influencing Asia Pacific Countries’ Success Level in Curbing COVID 19

• The COVID 19 Pandemic Situation in Malaysia: From the Perspective of Population Density

• Your health vs. my liberty: Pandemic prevention behaviors predicted more by differences in philosophical beliefs than messaging or reasoning

• Tackling the Covid Pandemic: government response and readiness to C19 pandemic, role of private actors

• Limitations to Policy-making using Covid-19 Case Data: barriers to testing and reporting

• The Surge of Domestic Violence during the COVID-19 Pandemic

• Governance in Crisis: Institutionalizing Reflective Report to Guide Decision Making Under Uncertainty

• Acceleration index to track pandemics and allocate tests: Application to Covid-19

• 15:00 - 15:30 Keynote 8 In Science We Should Trust (controlling for the Social Desirability Bias)

  Enrique Fatas & Paulius Yamin (Center for Social Norms and Behavioural Dynamics, University of Pennsylvania)

• 16:00 - 17:00 Presentation Q&A sessions - Emotions & Coping During Crisis

• Humor Styles Predict Emotional and Behavioral Responses to COVID-19

• Gender Differences in Emotional Responses to COVID-19

• Worry, coping and resignation - A repeated-measures study on emotional responses after a year in the pandemic

• Grief, Memorials, and Loss through COVID-19: Resources for caring while physical distancing

• Awareness, risk perception, and stress during the COVID-19 pandemic in communities of Tamil Nadu, India

• The Crisis Coping and Sustainability (CCS) Study - Lithuania

• Coping with Corona: Distraction as an effective strategy during pandemics

• Mental health self-help apps for coping with COVID-19

• Crisis Coping Assessment Questionnaire (CCAQ) and the impact of Covid-19 on the Italian population

• Coping in Lockdown: Challenges surveying across four countries

• 18:00 - 19:00 Closing Panel - Moving the discussion forward - lessons learned and next steps

  Helga Nowotny (ETH Zurich)

  Saadi Lahlou (Paris Institute of Advanced Studies, London School of Economics and Political Science)

  Olivier Bouin (Network for French Institutes of Advanced Study, European Alliance for SSH)

  Maxi Heitmayer (London School of Economics and Political Science, University College London)

• 19:00 - 19:15 Concluding Remarks