Shutterstock/Zivica KerkezCOVID drastically changed shopping habits. Lockdowns, isolation and illness led variously to panic buying, a surge in online deliveries, and some impulse purchases...
Kokho Jason Sit, Senior Lecturer in Marketing, University of Portsmouth
baranq / ShutterstockA person’s COVID-19 vaccination status is increasingly determining which events they can attend, where they can travel and where they can work. Vaccines influence ...
Lisa Rodgers, Associate professor, labour law, University of Leicester
There has been a big focus on the rapid adoption of hybrid work, and with many Australians making the gradual return to the office, it has become an increasingly preferred way of work. C...
Ellen Benaim, Chief Information Security Officer at Templafy
Tennis star Novak Djokovic looks to be out of the Australian Open after the country’s immigration minister, Alex Hawke, cancelled his visa “on the basis that it was in the public...
Keith Parry, Deputy Head Of Department in Department of Sport & Event Management, Bournemouth University
It remains to be seen whether the omicron variant will shift Sars-CoV-2 towards becoming manageably endemic. But as and when this happens, there will still be “long COVID” to con...
Brigitte Granville, Professor of International Economics and Economic Policy, Queen Mary University of London
According to the boss of the UK’s biggest energy supplier, Centrica, high gas and electricity prices could last for two years. With many already unnerved by the fact that the average U...
Lawrence Haar, Senior Lecturer in Finance, University of Brighton
It's a long way from most places, but it is about to host a bigger battery than the world's biggest, molten salt solar and pumped hydro generation, and a much bigger steelworks.Shutterstock