The Lockdown Library Project
01 July 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in the general public making significant lifestyle changes. This project examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the public’s reading habits, exploring whether people have increased or reduced their reading, chosen particular books or genres to read since lockdown, revisited books from the past, and refined the ways in which they talk about their reading.
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Ethical approval
This study was approved by the Ethics Committee in the School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Aston University in May 2020.
About the researcher
We are researchers in the Department of English Language and Literature, School of Social Sciences and Humanities at Aston University
Dr Abigail Boucher
Dr Marcello Giovanelli
Dr Chloe Harrison
