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Co-production: Responding to a changing world

9 July, 2020
By Louise Whitehead, Doctoral Researcher and Research Associate, Centre for Loneliness Studies, University of Sheffield.

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Managers responding to loneliness in the workplace

18 May, 2020
By Dr Anna Topakas, Lecturer in Work Psychology, Institute of Work Psychology (IWP), Centre for Loneliness Studies.

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Managing the social recession: how are services that aim to reduce isolation and loneliness among older people responding to Covid-19?

14 May 2020
By Dr Ruth Naughton-Doe, Research Associate at the Centre for Loneliness Studies

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COVID-19 may widen and worsen loneliness

6 April 2020
By Dr Andrea Wigfield, Director Centre for Loneliness Studies, The University of Sheffield.

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