Covid-19: How to foster healthy home working

As strict self-isolation measures, introduced to control the spread of coronavirus, force millions of us to work from home, UCL academics share their tips and strategies to help achieve healthy homeworking. Drawing on research insights from the worlds of psychology and anthropology, PhD researcher Dave Cook (UCL Anthropology) and Professor Anna Cox (UCL Psychology & Language Sciences) have drawn up five key themes on adjusting to this new life. Anthropologist Dave Cook studies the behaviour of an extreme kind of remote worker, known as digital nomads. His five-year ethnographic study involves research with millennials from the UK, US, Europe and Australia working remotely in South East Asia. He has examined the use of disciplining practices for managing work/leisure boundaries, when there is often no physical separation between work and non-work spaces. Anna Cox, Professor of Human-Computer Interaction, uses theories and methods from social science to study digital technology use in order to help people be happier, healthier and more productive. She leads research projects on: The Future of Work in the Digital Age and Digital Wellbeing, which look at the impacts of being "constantly connected" on work-life balance and wellbeing.