We are pleased to share the news that the online exhibition “Cracking Covid: The history of COG-UK” is now live and can be found here.
The exhibition is curated by Dr Lara Marks, a noted historian of medicine and biotechnology, who has spent the last year conducting in depth interviews with more than 80 consortium members and synthesising their experiences into a compelling narrative that tells the story of the consortium and its members set against the backdrop of the pandemic as it emerged and developed.
The exhibition reflects the varied range of individual backgrounds and expertise that contributed to the consortium and aims to provide a valuable resource for people to consider what COG-UK achieved, how we achieved it, and what lessons this might hold for the future. It is intentionally pitched to be accessible to non-expert readers, and as noted by Lara, can only begin to scratch the surface of the full history of COG-UK.
We hope that the resulting exhibition will provide a lasting resource for people to look back at what we achieved together and a place where they can draw upon our collected experiences to help tackle future pandemic threats and deliver large-scale collaborative initiatives.
