Memories of COVID-19: Geographies of Remembrance in Wales

Funder	Economic and Social Research Council
Recipient Organization	Swansea University
Country	United Kingdom
Start Date	Sep 30, 2024
End Date	Mar 30, 2028
Duration	1,277 days
Number of Grantees	2
Roles	Student; Supervisor
Data Source	UKRI Gateway to Research
Grant ID	`2930547`

Grant Description

The World Health Organisation (WHO, 2023) no longer considers the COVID-19 pandemic a global health emergency, and the lockdowns feel like they happened long ago (Ogden and Piovesan, 2022). The pandemic has had a significant impact on people's lives, and exploring collective memory offers insight into meanings we ascribe to events and how these meanings are contested (Land, 2023),

through, for example, the lens of 'vulnerable' people. This thesis will explore the national and political implications of remembering the pandemic, and begins from the premise that commemoration forms a central aspect of making sense of this collective experience of rupture