Editorial, January/February 2025

It is five years since the first reports of Covid-19 emerged from China. By the end of January 2020, cases were seen in the UK. It was March before the country entered lockdown – and here in Leicester, we spent more time in that than any other area.

The world changed, through a pandemic variously described in this special issue as 'transformative', 'earth-shattering'… and 'the unmentionable'.

I've certainly never experienced anything, in editorial terms, quite like trying to pull this edition together. There's some extreme hostility and misinformation, even from within our discipline, about Psychology's perceived role in the Covid response.

And it appears that many people simply don't want to talk about Covid anymore. 'Covid's over'.

Except it's not.

So, I hope that looking back on lessons and lives, and forward to the future, is of interest and use to at least some of you!

For us, Covid sparked an explosion in our online presence that has been maintained to this day.

Do seek out more there, including our Covid collection, plus the issue via our archive.

Dr Jon Sutton
Managing Editor @psychmag