Research Projects

The Lockdown Library Project

This project explores the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the public’s reading habits through an online survey.

We are interested in whether people have increased or reduced their reading, chosen particular books or genres to read, revisited books from the past, and changed the ways they talk about books with other people since the lockdown.

  • Abigail Boucher
  • Marcello Giovanelli
  • Chloe Harrison
  • Robbie Love

Articles

How reading habits have changed during the Covid-19 lockdown

Research Presentations

Investigating Pandemic Reading Habits, Applied Stylistics Symposium 2021
Lockdown Reading Habits: Investigating a Survey Corpus, Aston Corpus Linguistics Symposium 2021
Re-reading in the Pandemic, PALA poster 2021