About the HCRI academics involved:<\/strong><\/p>\n We spoke to Dr Nathaniel O\u2019 Grady and Dr Ayham Fattoum to find out more about the project.<\/p>\n Can you tell us more about what the project involves?<\/strong><\/p>\n Nat:<\/p>\n We have a range of different scholars from HCRI and the business school working to develop innovative recommendations for advising local authorities, including Greater Manchester, about how society can recover from the COVID-19 crisis.<\/p>\n The project comprises of a weekly 5-page Manchester briefing giving recommendations which are separated out by specific themes or domains which are most important to consider for recovery. These themes look at the economy, environment, infrastructure, humanitarian assistance (volunteering), and communications.\u00a0 It goes out to people who have signed up to the mailing list. From local authorities, central government, and international partners, to NGOs and charities.<\/p>\n Showing to whom the 5-page report is disseminated, we have these things called local resilience forums which is a group of the most important organisations for governing emergencies. That includes fire and rescue service, police, ambulance, <\/em>Public Health England<\/em><\/a>, the council, <\/em>Environment Agency<\/em><\/a>, and a bunch of category two responders so, private business, infrastructure, NGOs, charities.<\/em><\/p>\n We\u2019re advising those local resilience forums, and we\u2019re doing that for Greater Manchester and for Essex \u2013 it\u2019s expanding.<\/p>\n What are the key motivations of the project?<\/strong><\/p>\n Nat:<\/p>\n One of the motivations for the project was that when we started it everyone on the frontline was still very much having to organise response to the coronavirus. We were in a position of being academics working in universities where we could be proactive in starting to plan for recovery. I\u2019m only starting to hear people thinking of recovery now so we\u2019re kind of a month in advance of other people thinking about this.<\/p>\n Crises don\u2019t adhere to academic disciplinary boundaries. And in the team we have multiple disciplines working together reflecting HCRI\u2019s interdisciplinary character. So we were motivated to work together across disciplines to advise on covid recovery using a range of different perspective<\/p>\n For me, one of the key motivations of the project is getting to use recovery to institute changes in government approaches which have created vulnerabilities over the past ten years. \u00a0These vulnerabilities include reversing 40% of cuts to emergency service budgets, and 59% of cuts in affordable housing and reductions in housing<\/p>\n Another example is to improve environments and green policy. One of the things I\u2019m quite interested in doing through this project is using recovery to reduce carbon emissions and think of solutions that derive from COVID-19 recovery. People are working at home now much more. Can people work at home after COVID-19 has gone and lessen the impact of commuting to work?<\/p>\n What is the scope of the project?<\/strong><\/p>\n Ayham:<\/p>\n It\u2019s a multistage project so at the moment. Currently, we are interviewing people, collecting international response and recovery information from different sources, and extracting relevant knowledge from the literature for governments. We communicated our findings and recommendations to local authorities and the wider audience through briefs and blogs. These are available to anyone who uses our website<\/a>.<\/p>\n The next stage where we\u2019ll start to be involved more directly with the UK [government] and focus on how the UK responded to COVID-19 and then maybe get lessons for recovery. \u00a0Lastly, we will be at a stage where we will start to do more in depth research and produce academic publications.<\/p>\n What ways other than the 5-page document is the project being communicated?<\/strong><\/p>\n Ayham:<\/p>\n I recently wrote a blog about decision making and COVID-19<\/a>. This is part of the indirect advice whereas the briefings are the direct recommendations. So, this is decision making for complexity and what they call wicked problems. This means it\u2019s like very high uncertainty over how to make decisions in these contexts. \u00a0A follow-up blog that will published soon is related to understanding the uniqueness of recovery during pandemics and how to integrate qualitative decision-making to address great uncertainty. Other blogs will focus on how we understand the relationship between our responding agencies and their environment, and how we can develop our policies to engage communities for higher resilience and sustainability. The team\u2019s first blog also reflects on [How can society recover from COVID-19?]\u00a0\u00a0 <\/a><\/p>\n What does recovery and response mean in the context of COVID-19?<\/strong><\/p>\n Ayham:<\/p>\n As academics we shouldn\u2019t think in a traditional way always because this is not supportive for the practitioners who are suffering on the ground. We\u2019re here to support new ways of thinking and highlight overlooked opportunities and threats. As in the case of suggesting using different ways to making decisions. You need to think of a different way of designing our organisations and different ways even to manage disasters of great uncertainty.<\/p>\n Nat:<\/p>\n A lot of the time we\u2019re probably developing new understandings of what recovery is. It\u2019s evolving because this is a new type of advance where recovery and response might blend together so you need to respond at the same time you need to recover.<\/p>\n The one thing that we\u2019ve tried to impress was the scale of this emergency is something which isn\u2019t usually seen. As we all know, it cuts across all different kinds of aspects of life, so we\u2019re having to rethink recovery in ways which is complex and addresses the complexities of trying to think how one domain relates to another. 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