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How has Arts Council NI COVID-19 emergency funding been distributed to arts organisations?
Reading Time: 3 minutes By James Bamford, Karen McCallion & Thomas Procter The Arts Council of Northern Ireland (ACNI) has the role of distributing arts funding for the Department for Communities (DfC) from resources allocated by the Exchequer and
How has COVID-19 Emergency Funding for the arts and culture Sectors in Northern Ireland been distributed?
Reading Time: < 1 minute By James Bamford & Karen McCallion This visualisation provides a snapshot of emergency funding provided to the arts and culture sectors in Northern Ireland. This funding is part of a range of measures supported by
How can our culture sector ever recover from COVID-19?
Reading Time: 9 minutes This article examines some of the risks which COVID-19 has posed to the culture and heritage sectors in Northern Ireland, and assesses whether the support measures put in place by the Northern Ireland Executive and
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‘Exit’ from COVID-19 lockdown: Social distancing and face coverings to minimise the spread of the virus
Reading Time: 10 minutes Context The RaISe research paper ‘Exit’ from COVID-19 ‘lockdown’: Health-related issues (20 May 2020) contained sections on transmission of the virus SARS-CoV-2 and two of the key issues – social/physical distancing from other people and
‘Exit’ from COVID-19 lockdown: Use of testing and contact tracing
Reading Time: 9 minutes The Assembly Research and Information Service (RaISe) has published a number of papers on testing for Sars-CoV-2 tracking and contact tracing, including ‘Testing for Sars-CoV-2 in the UK; and the use of testing and contact
Ten reasons to be cautious about using R to support decision-making during the COVID-19 pandemic
Reading Time: 9 minutes The risk is that a complicated number is released without context into a world that doesn’t know how to think about it. The ‘R number’ that most of us non-epidemiologists had never heard of
