Welcome to the Identities & Collective Behaviour research group website!

We are a team of social psychologists whose research focuses on exploring the role of group processes in collective behaviour. Our aim is to improve safety at organised crowd events and in emergencies. We do this by using surveys, experiments, interviews, and observational analyses to understand how any why group processes impact behaviour, and develop interventions to facilitate safety. Our collaborations with emergency services, UK and Scottish government, computer modellers and legislative bodies for event safety mean that we apply our research to multiple contexts including organised mass events, emergency evacuations, and healthcare settings.

News

A New article ‘Responding to emergencies’ by Dr Yunhe Tong and Dr Anne Templeton has been published in the Fire & Risk Management Journal

Get in Touch

If you want to hear more about our work or have any questions, please email Anne at A.Templeton@ed.ac.uk.