Financial Statements 2019/2020


RESEARCH AND KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE


Our practice-based approach to research, with a strong interdisciplinary focus, played an important role to provide insights needed to tackle the pandemic and to support our community and vulnerable groups.


A significant amount of varied research and knowledge exchange activity in response to the pandemic took place across all Faculties.


Middlesex academic staff signed up to the COVID-19 Outbreak Expert Database created by Parliament’s Knowledge Exchange Unit. The database signposts Parliament to research expertise, helping them stay informed about all aspects of the coronavirus emergency and response.


Some highlights from our Faculty of Science and Technology include the development and design of a real-time, non- invasive lung monitoring device for adults in hospital with COVID-19. We also led on research to develop a coronavirus testing kit to be used in Africa.


Research by the Department of Psychology looked at the impact of COVID-19 on people with diabetes. The aim was to understand the effect on physical and psychological health to allow better patient care and self-management. They also carried out research into volunteering to support the NHS and the community effort to respond to the pandemic, to help understand what works and what doesn’t.


Research by our Department of Economics, in collaboration with Berkeley Mathematical Science Research Institute in


California, looked at differences in intentions to wear a face covering. Results of the first study showed that American males were less willing than females to wear a mask in public. This study received widespread press coverage in the US and UK. A second discovered that people are much more likely to wear face masks if they rely on reasoning instead of emotion. Both papers consistently found that right-leaning people are less likely than left-leaning people to wear a face mask to stop the spread of COVID-19.


Senior Lecturer in Law Dr Joelle Grogan coordinated the COVID-19 and States of Emergency Symposium, which showed that emergency powers implemented during the pandemic have impacted nearly 80% of the world’s population. Over 100 experts contributed, including former judges of the European Court of Human Rights, as well as professors and scholars of constitutional, public, and international law. Senior Lecturer Dr Alice Donald and Professor of Human Rights Philip Leach contributed a commentary on human rights and COVID-19, while Senior Lecturer in Law Dr Ciara Staunton contributed a report on South Africa with her colleague Professor Melodie Labuschaigne from the University of South Africa.


In April, Middlesex academics called for research into the high number of Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) coronavirus-related cases. Research Fellow Roger Kline, who regularly provides expert analysis on NHS staffing issues in the media, urged health authorities to understand why none of the BAME deaths involved staff who work in intensive care. Roger was appointed to the expert group for ‘Developing an ethical framework for COVID-19 testing for NHS workers,’ a project by the University of Cambridge. Based on his research, Roger has commented widely on issues relating to the coronavirus and its impacts upon NHS workforce.


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