Chris L. Peterson, PhD, has an Adjunct appointment in the Department of Social Inquiry, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Australia. He specialises in work-related stress, chronic disease and epilepsy and has published extensively in these areas, including several books. He has also recently published the book Identifying and Managing Risk at Work: Emerging Issues in the Context of Globalisation. He primarily undertakes quantitative research, but also engages with qualitative research. He is a co-investigator on a six-wave longitudinal study of the social aspects of epilepsy and has been chief investigator or co-investigator on a number of large grants.
"""How did globalization shape the COVID-19 pandemic? How has the COVID-19 pandemic reshaped globalisation? In addressing these questions Chris Peterson presents a comprehensive analysis of the dramatic global social and economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. He surveys in thirteen engaging and accessible chapters how COVID has impacted on the world of work, patterns of inequality, gender relations, technological change, the global political economy and not least climate change. Arguing that the pandemic era is not yet over he offers valuable prescriptions regarding future pandemic management whilst also reflecting upon the significant lessons to be learned from the COVID-19 pandemic for the design of effective global and national responses to the multiple threats and challenges - from the climate emergency to AI - confronting humanity. A terrific contribution to making sense of our era of polycrisis or permacrisis."" Emeritus Professor Tony McGrew, Strathclyde University UK ""Many books on COVID have been written, wondering how, why, and now what. Peterson’s welcome and readable retrospect takes a much-needed deep sociological dive."" Emeritus Professor Ronald Labonté, University of Ottawa, Canada"