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.
Please browse our website to see our brilliant team, an overview of our projects, and our most recent news and outputs.
News
In August Dr Anne Templeton Gave a Professional training lecture to local resilience leaders, Norwegian Civil Defence -’Collaborating, requesting or commanding: First responders' preferences and boundaries on coordinating and communicating with the public in emergencies’
Congratulations Kayleigh Smith - Runner up for Best Poster at the Annual BPS SPS Conference - “It’s a business” - what is the football club, and how does this contribute to the relationships with its fans?
We published our new paper
‘Understanding crowd responses to perceived hostile threats: An innovative multidisciplinary approach’
Congratulation to Dr Waleed Alhajri who passed his viva with no corrections!
Dr Waleed Alhajri published his paper ‘Shared social identity and social norms shape risk-taking at mass gatherings’
