Menu Breadcrumb Home News Responding to the COVID-19 pandemic How the Turing is helping to tackle the spread and effects of coronavirus Learn more Introduction Experts at The Alan Turing Institute are working hard to address the urgent need for scientific innovation to tackle the spread and effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. This page is a hub for content related to these efforts – keep up to date with live projects, calls for researcher engagement and other relevant activities. You can also sign up to our newsletters to be informed of our latest developments. Research Annual Report 2020-21 An exceptional year Providing independent research leadership to the UK Health Security Agency A partnership with The Alan Turing Institute and Royal Statistical Society to support the COVID-19 response New partnership between The Alan Turing Institute and Royal Statistical Society supports Joint Biosecurity Centre COVID-19 response Shocks and resilience Measuring policy impact in the COVID-19 crisis and building resilience against future shocks Vulnerability to misinformation during COVID-19 Providing insight into people’s vulnerability to accepting health-related misinformation during COVID-19 Technical advice for the NHS COVID-19 app Informing the NHS Test and Trace programme’s understanding of the spread of the virus and helping to optimise the performance of the app Pagination Current page 1 Page 2 Next page Next › Last page Last » Publications Understanding Parental Concerns about COVID-19 Vaccination Parental vaccine hesitancy could be the next frontier in tackling COVID-19. There is a... Data science and AI in the age of COVID-19 – report Reflections on the response of the UK’s data science and AI community to the COVID-19 pandemic Understanding vulnerability to online misinformation Health-related misinformation risks exacerbating the COVID-19 public health crisis if it leads the public... Near Real-Time Social Distancing in London During the COVID-19 pandemic, policy makers at the Greater London Authority, the regional governance... Near Real-Time Social Distancing in London, James Walsh, Oluwafunmilola Kesa, Andrew Wang, Mihai Ilas, Patrick O'Hara, Neil Dhir, Theodoros Damoulas, arXiv:2012.07751. Project Odysseus Won CIUK Student Poster Competition 2020 Patrick O'Hara, James Walsh, Chance Haycock, Edward Thorpe-Woords, Oluwafunmilola Kesa, Andrew Wang, Mihai Ilas, James Brandreth, Oscar Giles, Neil Dhir, Theodoros Damoulas, Computing Insight UK 2020. An expectation-based network scan statistic for a COVID-19 early warning system One of the Greater London Authority’s (GLA) response to the COVID-19 pandemic brings together... Chance Haycock, Edward Thorpe-Woods, James Walsh, Patrick O’Hara, Oscar Giles, Neil Dhir, Theodoros Damoulas. (2020). An Expectation-Based Network Scan Statistic for a COVID-19 Early Warning System. In Workshop on Machine Learning in Public Health, NeurIPS'20. Pagination Current page 1 Page 2 Next page Next › Last page Last » News and blogs What makes parents concerned about vaccinating their children against COVID-19? Researchers in the Turing’s public policy programme are working to understand vaccine hesitancy among parents Friday 17 Sep 2021 New £2m funding call for advanced analytics into COVID-19 Health Data Research UK and The Alan Turing Institute launch a new joint funding call as part of the National Core Studies into COVID-19 Friday 03 Sep 2021 ONS and the Turing join forces to produce better and faster estimates of economic changes The Office for National Statistics (ONS) and The Alan Turing Institute have today (14... Monday 14 Jun 2021 The Turing convenes data science and AI experts to assess the UK’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic Lessons for future emergencies Wednesday 09 Jun 2021 New Nature research highlights the epidemiological impact of the NHS COVID-19 app Evidence supporting continued development and deployment of contact tracing apps. Wednesday 12 May 2021 Who is most vulnerable to health-related misinformation? New research at the Turing reveals who is most likely to believe online misinformation – and what can be done to tackle the problem Monday 01 Mar 2021 Pagination Current page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Next page Next › Last page Last » Events AI UK | Data, privacy and public health: Countering COVID-19 with technology and trust Thursday 28 May 2020 Time: 14:00 - 15:00 Jon Crowcroft Mariarosaria Taddeo Jonathan Evans Imam Hoque Turing Lecture: Is education AI-ready? Wednesday 29 Jul 2020 Time: 15:00 - 16:30 Professor Rose Luckin Turing Lecture: AI for innovative social work Thursday 20 Aug 2020 Time: 15:00 - 16:30 Professor Desmond Upton Patton Walid Magdy AI UK | Smart cities Monday 28 Sep 2020 Time: 10:00 - 11:30 Alison Heppenstall Paul Patras Rachel Franklin Richard Milton Nick Malleson Flora Roumpani Theo Damoulas AI and data science in the age of COVID-19 Tuesday 24 Nov 2020 Time: 09:30 - 16:30 David Spiegelhalter Devi Sridhar Neil Lawrence Adam Kucharski Robert Winston Christina Pagel Charlotte Deane Wendy Hall Mihaela van der Schaar Natalie Banner Neil Ferguson Adrian Smith Chris Holmes Michael Tildesley Methodological challenges and approaches in COVID-19 epidemiology Friday 23 Apr 2021 Time: 16:00 - 17:00 Marc Lipsitch Chris Holmes Johanna Hutchinson Pagination Current page 1 Page 2 Next page Next › Last page Last » Advice COVID-19 advice The Institute's offices are currently closed but you can stay connected to the Turing Explore the Institute Sign in Responding to the COVID-19 pandemic Events News The Turing Podcast Impact stories Data science and AI glossary Blog About us Annual report Frequently asked questions Governance Training a new generation Equality, diversity and inclusion What Alan Turing means to us How to get to the Turing Research Research areas Challenges Programmes Projects AI for science and government (ASG) Research Engineering Climate action at the Turing Interest groups Publications & policy submissions Data ethics People Spotlights Researchers Doctoral Students Former Researchers Business team Governance University Liaison Opportunities at the Turing Why work at the Turing? 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