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People want a better world after the COVID-19 pandemic but don’t believe it will really happen

Press release issued: 29 November 2021

People strongly favour a fairer and more sustainable way of life in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, despite not thinking it will actually materialise or that others share the same progressive wishes, according to new research which sheds intriguing light on what people have missed most and want for the future.

People strongly favour a fairer and more sustainable way of life in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, despite not thinking it will actually materialise or that others share the same progressive wishes, according to new research which sheds intriguing light on what people have missed most and want for the future.

The international study, led by the University of Bristol, reflects people’s preferences in the United Kingdom and United States in the early as well as later stages of the pandemic, and shows striking commonality in their perspectives.

Read the full University of Bristol press release

Further information

Paper: Lewandowsky S et al. (2021). Losses, hopes, and expectations for sustainable futures after COVID. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. 

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