What is Periscope?
PERISCOPE was a large-scale research project involving a consortium of 32 European institutions to investigate the social, economic, behavioural and mental health-related aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The project ran for 36 months from 1 November 2020 to 31 October 2023 (Grant agreement: 101016233).
ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ is a leading partner in delivering PERISCOPE objectives. Hosted by the Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa, the wider PERISCOPE team includes ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ faculty members across the Department of Economics, Department of Anthropology, Department of Health Policy, Department of Social Policy and the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Behavioural Lab.
Objectives include:
- to gather data on the broad impacts of COVID-19 to develop a comprehensive, user-friendly, openly accessible COVID Atlas, which should become a reference tool for researchers and policymakers, and a dynamic source of information to disseminate to the general public;
- to perform innovative statistical analysis on the collected data, with the help of various methods including machine learning tools;
- to identify successful practices and approaches adopted at the local level, which could be scaled up at the pan-European level for a better containment of the pandemic and its related socio-economic impacts;
- to develop guidance for policymakers to enhance Europe’s preparedness for future similar events and proposed reforms in the multi-level governance of health.
Key outputs:
Visit the and explore the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ PERISCOPE team and projects below.
Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa
Department of Anthropology
Department of Economics
Department of Health Policy
Department of Management
Department of Social Policy
- Universita Degli Studi Di Pavia (UNIPV), Pavia, Italy,
- Centre For European Policy Studies (CEPS), Bruxelles, Belgium
- Sociedade Portuguesa De Inovacao Consultadoria Empresarial Efomento Da Inovacao Sa (SPI), Porto, Portugal
- Federation Europeenne Des Academiesde Medecine (FEAM), Bruxelles, Belgium
- Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitat frankfurt Am Main (GUF), Frankfurt Am Main, Germany
- Technische Universiteit Delft (TU Delft), Delft Netherlands
- Politecnico Di Milano (POLIMI), Milano, Italy
- London School Of Economics And Political Science (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳), London, United Kingdom
- Universita Degli Studi Di Trento (UNITN), Trento, Italy,
- Universidad Politecnica De Madrid (UPM), Madrid, Spain
- Assistance Publique Hopitaux De Paris (APHP), Paris, France
- Fondazione Irccs Policlinico San Matteo (IRCCS OSM), Pavia, Italy
- Istituto Per L'interscambio Scientifico (I.S.I), Torino, Italy
- Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM), Muenchen, Germany
- European Regional And Local Health Authorities Asbl (EUREGHA), Bruxelles, Belgium
- Federation Europeenne Des Hopitaux Et Des Soins De Sante (HOPE) Bruxelles, Belgium,
- Agencia De Qualitat I Avaluacio Sanitaries De Catalunya (AQUAS), Barcelona, Spain
- Preduzece Za Informacione Tehnologije I Elektronsko Trgovanje Belit Doo (BELIT), Beograd, Serbia
- Modefinance Srl (MODEFINANCE SRL), Trieste, Italy
- Genegis Gi Srl (GENEGIS), Milano, Italy
- European Patients’ Forum (EPF), Brussels, Belgium
- Ecole Des Hautes Etudes En Sante Publique (EHESP), Rennes, France
- Mental Health Europe - Sante Mentale Europe (MHE-SME), Bruxelles, Belgium
- Narodni Ustav Dusevniho Zdravi (NUDZ), ,Klecany Czech Republic
- Agora Sa (AGORA), Warszawa, Poland
- 2karolinska Institutet (KI), Stockholm, Sweden
- Handelshogskolan I Stockholm (SSE), Stockholm, Sweden
- Universita Della Svizzera Italiana (USI), Lugano, Switzerland
- Universiteit Gent (UGENT), Gent, Belgium
- Institut National De La Sante Et De La Recherche Medicale (INSERM), Paris, France
- Institut Fuer Hoehere Studien - Institute For Advanced Studies (Ihs) Wien, Austria
- Institutul De Virusologie Stefan S. Nicolau (IVN), Bucuresti, Romania
The Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa will host a series of events on COVID-19 impacts and findings from the research programme. See all past and future hosted events here:
- Epidemics and Militarisation. Conference. ANU Assembly. November 2023.
- Epidemics and Militarisation. Conference. 19th IUAES-WAU World Anthropology Congress 2023. October 2023.
- Social sustainability - or die. One day conference. Karolinska Institutet. 20 September 2023
- ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Commission for Pandemic Policy and Inequalities conference. 5 and 6 June 2023.
- Diaspora Communities and Covid-19. ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Commission and online video. ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳. 5 June 2023.
- Recognising and Supporting Carers and Social Infrastructures. ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Commission and online video. ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳. 5 June 2023.
- A Future fit for young people. ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳. 5 June 2023.
- Test, Trace and Isolate. ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Commission and online video. ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳. 5 June 2023.
- Roundtable: Commemorating the Role of Science during the Pandemic, UK Commission on Covid Commemoration. UK Government Commision. British Academy, London. 2 December 2022.
- Meeting of the European Members of the International Science Council. Stakeholder Meeting. Royal Society London. 13 October 2022.
- Migration, mobility justice and the right to health in a post-pandemic world: Lessons and future directions for research, policy, and advocacy. Policy Workshop. Chatham House. 13 July 2022.
- Ethnographic Approaches to Vaccine Hesitancy. MOOC. ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳. June 2022.
- Constructing Reality': Critical Approaches to Misinformation, Joint event ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ and Business School, University of Surrey, ‘On the Limits of Misinformation: Reflections on the Covid-19 Response’. Closed Workshop. ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳/ University of Surrey. 16 May 2022.
- Presentation to UK Ambassador to Italy and Italian Government, ‘Ethnographies of Disengagement: The Covid-19 Response among Roma and migrant populations in Italy’. Presentation to UK Ambassador in Italy. UK Embassy in Rome (virtual). 9 May 2022.
- STRIVE Report Launch. Conference. British School in Rome, Italy. 14 April 2022.
- Vaccine Hesitancy: A Useful Concept. Virtual Webinar. ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳. 12 April 2022.
- The role of “SHAPE*” in policy-making and policy-shaping: an international workshop, FCDO and British Academy. Workshop. 16 March 2022.
- The Puzzle of Covid in Emerging Europe. Workshop. Online - ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ and other stakeholders. 16 March 2022.
- The Role of Multi-Disciplinary Collaborations in Vaccine Policy-Making. Workshop. ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳. 13 March 2022.
- Translating ‘Trust’: Ethnographic Interpretations of Vaccine ‘Hesitancy'. Workshop. ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳. 12 February 2022.
- The Future of Fieldwork in a post-Pandemic World. 21 April 2021.
Periscope is a large-scale research project that involves a consortium of 32 European institutions to investigate the implications of COVID-19.
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