focus area 1
THE END & ENDINGS

The focus on the end and endings will provide historical and literary context through the analysis of historical, cultural and literary accounts. The methods will include: 

  • Oral history interviews

  • Published and unpublished sources, 

  • National archival material and international/global organisations

  • Networks’ archives (e.g., diplomatic conferences), 

  • Critical reading of philosophies and social theories of time

  • Historiographic and narratological readings of tropes of endings

This work will contribute significantly to understanding current global and local health structures, long-term trajectories of past interventions, and lived experiences of crises in extended temporalities.

focus area 2
after the end

We will focus on experiences of living through ideas of endings and beyond. This work seeks to foreground counter-narratives and personal perspectives on time and temporality during crises and how these shape understandings of, if, and when an after occurs. 

The methods will include ethnographic and qualitative and survey methods to provide much-needed insights to explore the psychological, emotional and physical impact of crises after the end. 

This work will contribute significantly to the data and insights needed to inform policy and practice in ongoing and future crises. It will capture lived experiences and enable the monitoring of attitudinal change after the end in global health crises.

focus area 3
future times

The literature has highlighted inconsistencies and opaqueness in declarations of the beginning of crises without similar academic focus on endings. This research is future-focused and aligned with the aims of mitigating the oftenextractive nature of north-south research collaborations by seeking to support future researchers in the global south and promoting ideas of reparative justice for future populations. We will seek to be close to practice and shape future global health policies through data grounded in the lived experiences of those most proximate to crises to frame principles that should underline legal frameworks after the end of crisis.

We will conduct empirical, doctrinal and normative analysis on the legal, policy and financial responses to aftermaths of crises in global health. It will also engage in normative inquiry of obligations to improve legal frameworks and equity using reparative justice arguments.

focus area 4
connecting times

We will focus on synthesizing all the data and insights generated through our research and presenting a coherent and accessible account of the lived experiences of the most proximate to crises after official declarations of an end.