Click here for the Friday Reading Search, a searchable archive of reading and knowledge resources

Since March 2020, Airmic has been issuing Friday Reading, a curated series of readings and knowledge resources sent by email to Airmic members. The objective of Airmic Friday Reading was initially to keep members informed during the Covid-19 pandemic. Today, Airmic Friday Reading has evolved in scope to include content on a wide range of subjects with each email edition following a theme. This page is a searchable archive of all the readings and knowledge resources that have been shared.

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Aviva
Friday Reading Edition 84 (26th November 2021)
Find out how women can find support during difficult times through the menopause such as getting the most out of doctor's appointments, treatment options that are out there for women and where to get help. This Aviva article focuses on how you are not alone in this process and help is available to relieve symptoms and help you cope.
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Global Captive Podcast , 12th June 2021
Friday Reading Edition 67 (16th July 2021)
Over the course of 20 minutes Mattieu Rouot, CEO of MAXIS, and Mark Cook, Director at Willis Towers Watson, look back on more than a year of COVID-19 and the impact it has had on captive employee benefit programmes and what it might mean for the future.
The Economist Intelligence Unit
Friday Reading Edition 63 (18th June 2021)
[Free to read upon sharing contact details] Also recently released – the EIU’s Liveability Index examines 140 cities worldwide to quantify the challenges presented to an individual’s lifestyle in the past year, for the first time taking into account this disrupting global event. Each city is assigned a liveability score for more than 30 qualitative and quantitative factors, including considerations relating to climate and the environment.
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The Lancet, 25th May 2021
The pandemic has foregrounded the long-standing need for universal health coverage in India. In the present moment, India confronts an immediate emergency to save lives and reduce suffering. Here are eight recommendations for the central and state governments that share responsibility for the health of the India's people.
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Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, 26th February 2021
Friday Reading Edition 47 (26th February 2021)
This paper draws on these successes and identify gaps in response to focus on an emerging third objective. How do we prepare for future pandemics? The next pandemic is likely not a new virus or plague, but a mutant strain of Covid-19 that is more deadly, more transmissible or resistant to antibodies – or all three.
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IRMSA
Friday Reading Edition 47 (26th February 2021)
Reflecting on the past year, 2020 has demonstrated the absolute necessity of risk-based decision-making in achieving our strategies, especially when confronting volatile scenarios and global risk impacts. The 2021 IRMSA Risk Report unpacks these learnings as well as the competencies we need to be successful and risk resilient organisations. It highlights the integrated strategic risk and resilience mindset.
Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, 9th November 2020
Friday Reading Edition 46 (19th February 2021)
This study examines the effectiveness of organisations' transparent communication in building public trust and encouraging health‐protection behaviours such as social distancing during a pandemic, based on results of an online survey of US citizens in the early stages of COVID‐19.
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Airmic, 10th February 2021
Friday Reading Edition 45 (12th February 2021)
John Scott, Head of Sustainability Risk at the Zurich Insurance Group addressed some of the wider societal issues of the Covid-19 crisis, and the emerging opportunities that can leave the world better prepared and more resilient to future risk.
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World Economic Forum,Bloomberg, 25th January 2021
Friday Reading Edition 43 (29th January 2021)
This panel examines the most effective response and recovery efforts, with recommendations on how businesses and governments can improve and increase their collaboration.
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Airmic, 20th January 2021
Friday Reading Edition 43 (29th January 2021)
Lasting effects of the Covid-19 pandemic pose a long-term risk to the global cooperation needed to address the long-term challenges such as environmental degradation and social fragmentation.