Explainers
JUNIPER is very pleased to collaborate with the fantastic team at Plus Magazine. Articles and podcasts produced by Rachel Thomas and Marianne Freiberger at Plus provide an explainer on the key mathematical modelling work done by JUNIPER members to a general audience. On this page you will find explainers to key epidemic modelling concepts as well as areas of current research. Full details of all content produced with Plus is available here.
Climate change and ready meals: Challenges for epidemiologists
Invading mosquitoes and food poisoning in the production chain — there are a lot of questions epidemiologists address in their research.
Learning from COVID: How good was the UK's vaccination strategy?
Was vaccinating vulnerable people first a good choice? Hindsight allows us to assess this question.
Living Proof: Communicating from the frontiers of mathematics
What are the challenges of communicating from the frontiers of mathematical research, and why should we be doing it?
Celebrating Pi Day with the stars of our podcast!
Celebrate Pi Day with the stars of our podcast, Maths on the move!
Happy International women's day 2023!
Celebrate this year's International Women's Day with some of the articles and podcasts we have produced with women mathematicians over the last year!
On the mathematical frontline: Tom Irving
Tom Irving tells us about providing a bridge between policy and mathematics during the pandemic, the importance of transparency, and discussing the R number at the hair dressers.
On the mathematical frontline: The podcast
Hear from the epidemiologists who have devoted their lives to fighting the pandemic.
When being wrong is right
What can we learn from the COVID crisis about finding consensus?
Happy Ada Lovelace day 2022!
We celebrate this year's Ada Lovelace day with a selection of podcasts featuring some of the many women we have worked with over the years.
Tracing mpox
What do we know about mpox, what do we not know, and what efforts are going into modelling it?