Megan O’Neill and Jonas Grutzpalk: How is Corona being perceived and described? The social impact of the virus on policing

How can we understand police communication with the public, when
the main object of communication is invisible? On May 5, 2021 Megan
O’Neill and Jonas Grutzpalk put their research project to debate on
our digital colloquium by addressing the challenges of doing
research on police communication during the current corona virus
pandemic. Their research project aims to cross-nationally
investigate police forces in Europe via the lenses of Bruno
Latour’s Actor-Network-Theory. Megan O’Neill is a reader at the
University of Dundee in Scotland and an Associate Director for the
Police Community Relations Network at the Scottish Institute for
Policing Research. Jonas Grutzpalk is a professor of Sociology and
Political Sciences at the University of Applied Sciences for Police
and Public Administration in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.