COVID-19 R&P: Research Meets Performance

Over the course of the summer, Imperial College London partnered with the Burnt Orange Theatre Company to engage 20 young creatives between the ages of 14-20 in COVID-19 research. Each group of young people created a short film which incorporatedsome of their personal experiences during the pandemic, and elements of the COVID-19 research report their group was assigned. The research stimulus for this video was Report 24–Anonymised & aggregated crowd level mobility data from mobile phones suggests initial compliance with COVID-19 social distancing interventions was high & geographically consistent across UK, which was produced by the Imperial College MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis. Click this link to access theresearch report: project was initiated and managed by Fola Afolabi; the creative aspects were facilitated by the Burnt Orange Theatre Company. The NIHR Applied Research Collaboration Northwest London funded the project.

Over the course of the summer, Imperial College London partnered with the Burnt Orange Theatre Company to engage20 young creatives between the ages of 14-20 in COVID-19 research. Each group of young people created a short film which incorporatedsome of their personal experiences during the pandemic, and elements of the COVID-19 research report their group was assigned. The research stimulus for this video was Report 22 –Equity in response to the COVID-19 pandemic: an assessment of the direct and indirect impacts of disadvantaged and vulnerable populations in low-and lower middle-income countries, which was produced by the Imperial College MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis. Click this link to access the research report: project was initiated and managed by Fola Afolabi; the creative aspects were facilitated by the Burnt Orange Theatre Company. The NIHR Applied Research Collaboration Northwest London funded the project.

Over the course of the summer, Imperial College London partnered with the Burnt Orange Theatre Company to engage 20 young creatives between the ages of 14-20 in COVID-19 research. Each group of young people created a short film which incorporatedsome of their personal experiences during the pandemic, and elements of the COVID-19 research report their group was assigned. The research stimulus for this video was Report 10 –Public response to UK Government recommendations on COVID-19: population survey, 17-18 March 2020, which was produced by the Imperial College MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis. Click this link to access the research report: project was initiated and managed by Fola Afolabi; the creative aspects were facilitated by the Burnt Orange Theatre Company. The NIHR Applied Research Collaboration Northwest London funded the project.

Over the course of the summer, Imperial College London partnered with the Burnt Orange Theatre Company to engage 20 young creatives between the ages of 14-20 in COVID-19 research. Each group of young people created a short film which incorporated some of their personal experiences during the pandemic, and elements of the COVID-19 research report their group was assigned. The research stimulus for this video was Report 13 –Estimating the number of infections and the impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions on COVID-19 in 11 European countries, which was produced by the Imperial College MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis. Click this link to access the research report: The project was initiated and managed by Fola Afolabi; the creative aspects were facilitated by the Burnt Orange Theatre Company. The NIHR Applied Research Collaboration Northwest London funded the project.

Over the course of the summer, Imperial College London partnered with the Burnt OrangeTheatre Company to engage 20 young creatives between the ages of 14-20 in COVID-19 research. Each group of young people created a short film which incorporatedsome of their personal experiences during the pandemic, and elements of the COVID-19 research report their group was assigned. The research stimulus for this video was Report 1 –Estimating the potential total number of novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) cases in Wuhan City, China, which was produced by the Imperial College MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis. Click this link to access the research report: project was initiated and managed by Fola Afolabi; the creative aspects were facilitated by the Burnt Orange Theatre Company. The NIHR Applied Research Collaboration Northwest London funded the project.