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It comes from a good place from dedication, commitment and wanting to do right by our students. I still see my colleagues working around the clock, still not sleeping enough, still being too stressed for too many hours, too many days a week in other words: still in crisis mode. We are now seven months further along, although it feels a lot longer, and there is still no end in sight. That was right, and the only sensible thing to do. When, back in March, COVID started to emerge as the disaster it still is today, we all went into full-on crisis mode. I am worried about my university community, about the staff and the students alike.

We want and need to prioritise health and wellbeing, and we are also trying to keep educating bright young people who simply cannot fall between the cracks. Academic communities in the UK and across the world are all working tirelessly around the clock, against the tide, and mindful of rules that change on an almost daily basis.