Professor Andrew Dawson

Social and Political Sciences, Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne

Health & Medicine

Part 1: Things we know at the end of 2020

No one could have predicted some of the hard lessons we’d learn in 2020. So what do we know at the end of this year that we had absolutely no clue about before?

Arts & Culture

How COVID-19 made me more Australian

For a British immigrant in Australia, watching the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK from afar has brought the issue of national identity into sharp relief

Arts & Culture

Isolation, my Dad and me

Social isolation is a double-edged sword especially for some older people. Although COVID-19 can kill, so too can loneliness

Arts & Culture

Podcast

Movement, mobility and identity

Anthropology studies cultures and communities, but people have always moved around, so one anthropologist has taken his research on the road in cars and on buses

Politics & Society

Why British Labour voters stayed true to their roots

Try as they might, the British Conservative Party still fails to understand the working class