Retail Research Associate Nelson Blackley explores the impact of the coronavirus crisis on UK grocery and supermarket shopping trends One of the most significant impacts on UK retail of the COVID-19 crisis and ‘life under lockdown’ has been the sudden change in where meal consumption takes place. Virtually all the food that, until recently, would […]
An international team including psychologists from Kent has addressed ways to manage different aspects of life under the spread of COVID-19. In a paper published by Nature Human Behaviour, Karen Douglas, Professor of Social Psychology at Kent, considers how we can globally combat conspiracy theories, while Dr Aleksandra Cichocka, Senior Lecturer in Political Psychology, examines […]
Consumer spending in Great Britain dropped by more than 32 per cent in the run up to the government-imposed lockdown. A new study by researchers at the University of St Andrews and Heriot Watt University found that spending declined dramatically as the Covid-19 pandemic took hold. Dr Dimitris Chronopoulos and Professor John Wilson, of the […]
