Author: Robert Dingwall

Robert Dingwall is an emeritus professor of sociology at Nottingham Trent University. He also serves as a consulting sociologist, providing research and advisory services particularly in relation to organizational strategy, public engagement and knowledge transfer. He is co-editor of the SAGE Handbook of Research Management.

COVID-19: Blood on Whose Hands?
Public Policy
May 16, 2021

COVID-19: Blood on Whose Hands?

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Resisting the Biosecurity State
News
April 29, 2021

Resisting the Biosecurity State

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Vaccine Passports, Governments, and Adult Movies
Public Policy
March 15, 2021

Vaccine Passports, Governments, and Adult Movies

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Opinion: We Must Resist the Powerful Voices Arguing for Zero COVID
Public Policy
March 8, 2021

Opinion: We Must Resist the Powerful Voices Arguing for Zero COVID

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No One Can Ensure Total Safety… We Must Fight Pandemic of FEAR

No One Can Ensure Total Safety… We Must Fight Pandemic of FEAR

With this pandemic, argues Robert Dingwall, fear amplification has been policy, based on the advice of a particular group of behavioral scientists advising the United Kingdom’s government.

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Start Talking Now About Life After Jabs Make COVID Less Deadly Than the Flu

Start Talking Now About Life After Jabs Make COVID Less Deadly Than the Flu

The reports from Britain’s hospitals in the last few days have been truly worrying. No one should doubt the reality of what […]

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Trying to Lock Down Until COVID is Eradicated Would Be Dangerous Folly

Trying to Lock Down Until COVID is Eradicated Would Be Dangerous Folly

It is possible that we could abolish death by COVID, argues Robert Dingwall, by continuing the restrictions of 2020 indefinitely – the problem, of course, is that we would simply die from something else.

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COVID, Simmel and the Future of Cities

COVID, Simmel and the Future of Cities

Robert Dingwall summons the writings of Georg Simmel to present ‘crucial arguments against the break-up of urban life that is envisioned by some contemporary Utopians: the case against the 15-minute city needs to be heard.’

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Medical Imperialism and the Fate of Christmas

Medical Imperialism and the Fate of Christmas

What happens, asks Robert Dingwall, when governments attempt to impose a moral code on the everyday lives of citizens without the consent of those citizens?

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We Must Learn to Live With the Virus – Just Like Samuel Pepys Lived With the Great Plague

We Must Learn to Live With the Virus – Just Like Samuel Pepys Lived With the Great Plague

Humanity has a long history of dealing with things like pandemics. What history shows us is that the only practicable interventions are social and behavioral. How can we slow the movement of the new infection through the population while medical science catches up with treatments or vaccines?

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The Coffin Cure: Why Vaccine Regulation Matters

The Coffin Cure: Why Vaccine Regulation Matters

Robert Dingwall cites a short story from 1957 which highlights why the development of a vaccine needs to always keep an eye on its safety, no matter what the pressures are for its immediate release.

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Should Doctors Be in Charge of Pandemic Policy?

Should Doctors Be in Charge of Pandemic Policy?

or 30 years, social scientists have been trying to educate scientific elites in the value of taking ordinary people with them rather than dismissing skepticism about science-based actions. This work has just gone out the window, argues Robert Dingwall.

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