diff --git a/src/morphodict/conftest.py b/src/morphodict/conftest.py
index 90dac8899..66e24e6cb 100644
--- a/src/morphodict/conftest.py
+++ b/src/morphodict/conftest.py
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 from django.core.management import call_command
 
 
-@pytest.fixture(scope="session")
+@pytest.fixture(scope="module")
 def django_db_setup(request, django_db_blocker):
     """
     Normally pytest-django creates a new, empty in-memory database and runs