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Embodiments of housing distress

Securitized trust: on the multiple guises of the UK policy agenda during the Covid-19 pandemic

An Elusive Animal: Trust in an Uncertain Present

Dr Nikita Simpson | Dr Elizabeth Storer
Location: United Kingdom
Year Published: 2022

Following the Covid-19 pandemic, policymakers are seeking ways in which to heal broken relations of trust, resulting from high and unequal rates of transmission and mortality, economic deprivation and a sense of abandonment experienced by some communities. In this piece Nikita Simpson and Elizabeth Storer reflect on theorisations of trust that they encountered while conducting empirical and policy-focused research during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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