SARS-CoV-2 infection in UK university students: lessons from September–December 2020 and modelling insights for future student return

Accepted/In Press date: 16 July 2021

e-pub ahead of print date: 4 August 2021

Published date: 4 August 2021

Additional Information: Funding Information: acknowledges support from a University of Nottingham Anne McLaren Fellowship. E.L.F. acknowledges support via K.J.B.’s fellowship and the Nottingham BBSRC Doctoral Training Partnership. M.L.T. was supported by the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (grant no. EP/N509620/1). E.B.-P., E.J.N., L.D., J.R.G. and M.J.T. were supported by UKRI through the JUNIPER modelling consortium (grant no. MR/V038613/1). E.M.H., L.D. and M.J.T. were supported by the Medical Research Council through the COVID-19 Rapid Response Rolling Call (grant no. MR/V009761/1). H.B.S. is funded by the Wellcome Trust and the Royal Society (grant no. 202562/ Z/16/Z). J.E. is partially funded by the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (grant no. EP/ T004878/1). Acknowledgements. The authors thank the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, for support during the programme Infectious Dynamics of Pandemics where work on this paper was undertaken. Funding Information: Data accessibility. This article has no additional data. Authors’ contributions. J.E. conceptualization, methodology, software, formal analysis, investigation, writing—original draft, review and editing, visualization. E.M.H. conceptualization, methodology, software, formal analysis, investigation, writing—original draft, review and editing, visualization. H.B.S. conceptualization, methodology, software, formal analysis, investigation, writing—original draft, review and editing, visualization. K.J.B. conceptualization, methodology, investigation, data curation, writing—original draft, review and editing, visualization, supervision. E.J.N. conceptualization, methodology, software, formal analysis, investigation, writing—original draft, review and editing, visualization. E.L.F. conceptualization, methodology, software, formal analysis, investigation, data curation, writing—original draft, review and editing, visualization. M.L.T. conceptualization, investigation, writing—original draft, review and editing. E.B.-P. conceptualization, software, review and editing, supervision. L.D. conceptualization, review and editing, supervision. C.J.B. conceptualization, methodology, software, formal analysis, investigation, writing—original draft, review and editing, visualization. R.B.H. conceptualization, methodology, software, formal analysis, investigation, writing—original draft, review and editing, visualization. L.S. conceptualization, methodology, software, formal analysis, investigation, writing—original draft, review and editing, visualization. J.R.G. conceptualization, writing—original draft, review and editing, supervision, project management. M.J.T. conceptualization, methodology, formal analysis, investigation, writing—original draft, review and editing, supervision, project management. Competing interests. We declare we have no competing interests. Funding. This work was supported by EPSRC grant no EP/R014604/1. The authors would also like to thank the Virtual Forum for Knowledge Exchange in Mathematical Sciences (V-KEMS) for the support during the workshop Unlocking higher education Spaces – What Might Mathematics Tell Us? where work on this paper was undertaken. K.J.B. Publisher Copyright: © 2021 The Authors.

Keywords: COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, epidemic modelling, higher education, pandemic modelling

Local EPrints ID: 450963

URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/450963

DOI: doi:10.1098/rsos.210310

ISSN: 2054-5703

PURE UUID: b0dc3e94-9dd4-4bc4-aee2-7a4798910b68

ORCID for Rebecca Hoyle: orcid.org/0000-0002-1645-1071

Date deposited: 27 Aug 2021 16:30

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