Climate change poses considerable threats to socioeconomic development and ecological systems across Africa. This is particularly critical for smallholder farming communities in dryland agroecosystems where climate change interact with non-climatic stressors and shocks to exacerbate the vulnerability of rural livelihoods. Ghana is already suffering from significant climate change impacts and is projected to experience increased temperatures and erratic rainfall patterns in the coming years and decades.

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Join Worcester College Provost, David Isaac CBE, as he interviews leading role models about their lives and careers.

Michael Cashman, The Lord Cashman CBE, is an actor, politician and LGBT+ rights activist. Born and raised in the East End of London, Michael had a highly successful career as an actor, singer, writer and director, including three years on Eastenders where his character had the first gay kiss in a British soap. He was a founder of LGBT+ rights charity Stonewall and its inaugural Chair, as well as the Labour Party's LGBT Global Envoy (2014-16).

Join Worcester College Provost, David Isaac CBE, as he interviews leading role models about their lives and careers.

Session Eight:

Securitisation Versus Sovereignty? Multi-level Governance, Scientific Objectivation, and the Discourses of the Canadian and American Heads of State During the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Presenter: Marjolaine Lamontagne, McGill University
Discussant: Professor Frank Schimmelfennig, ETH Zürich

COVID-19 Lessons for Social Resilience? Notes from Southeast Asia
Presenter: Dr Marina Kaneti, National University of Singapore and Simren Sekhon
Discussant: Dr Hanna-Tina Fischer, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin

Session Seven:

Policy Analysis of the Adoption and Implementation of NPIs to Slow the Spread of COVID-19 in Ghana
Presenter: Dr Hanna-Tina Fischer, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Discussant: Dr Marina Kaneti, National University of Singapore

The Oxford Covid-19 Government Response Tracker (OxCGRT) is a project that collected information on policy measures to tackle COVID-19 over the years 2020, 2021, and 2022.

Session Six:

Varieties of Crisis Response: COVID-19 Fiscal Policy in the Three Worlds of Welfare
Presenter: Angie Jo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Discussant: Dr Kerim Can Kavakli, Bocconi University

A Matter of Policy Type: Comparing Populist Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic
Presenter: Dr Marina Schenkel, Trinity College Dublin
Discussant: Marjolaine Lamontagne, McGill University

Session Five:

How Did the COVID Pandemic Response Harm Society? A Global Evaluation and State of Knowledge Review (2020-21)
Presenter: Dr Kevin Bardosh, Collateral Global, University of Edinburgh and University of Washington
Discussant: Dr Yuxi Zhang, University College London

Investigating the Typologies and Timeliness of COVID-19 Social Policy Responses Across Countries
Presenter: Steven Kuan-Ju Chen, Cadmus International UK Ltd/ National Taiwan University
Discussant: Dr Philipp Trein, University of Lausanne

Session Four:

Developing and Synthesising Evidence Regarding the Comparative Effectiveness of Public Health and Social Measures (PHSM) Against COVID-19
Presenter: Dr Francisco Pozo-Martin, Robert Koch Institute
Discussant: Professor Julia Wang, National Taiwan University

Legacies of Authoritarian Government and Civil Society as Norms in Times of Crisis
Presenter: Dr Philipp Trein, University of Lausanne
Discussant: Professor Stella Ladi, Queen Mary University of London