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Roehampton wins British Academy Funding for Vaccine Engagement in the G7

Wednesday, November 17, 2021

The British Academy has awarded funding to seven projects focusing on COVID-19 vaccine engagement across the G7 group of nations. Dr Melissa Jogie, Senior Lecturer in the School of Education secured one of these grants for her project titled ‘Adapting to the ‘New Normal’: Implications for post-COVID-19 Health Communication and Education’ (£88,016).

This research seeks to understand the probable dimensionality and optionality of future COVID-19 health policy changes in the UK and Japan, which options the public might favour, and how they would balance costs, benefits, and risks between policy dimensions and details can be accessed here.

Dr Jogie leads as Principal Investigator after forming an alliance with partners with Nagasaki University, School of Tropical Medicine and Global Health (Japan) Professor Christopher Smith (Co-Investigator), Dr James Gilleen (Co-Investigator) Roehampton’s School of Psychology, and a Project Consultant from the World Health Organisation (WHO) Ms Tomoka Nakamura.

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