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
We published our new paper ‘Understanding crowd responses to perceived hostile threats: An innovative multidisciplinary approach’
In June, Sayaka Hinata presented her research findings at the Groups Network Summer Workshop
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’,
