Anne gave a talk to National seminar for the Norwegian Civil Defence - ‘Managing people in emergencies: Examining the evidence from crowd psychology’
October
Anne gave a Seminar presentation at the University of St Andrews - ‘How do the public behave in emergencies and how is this influenced by first responder communication strategies? A journey through group relations, trust and communication’
Anne gave a talk to Ashton Fire Group - ‘Trying to understand who and what the public respond to in emergencies: An examination of group relations, trust and communication’
Anne gave a talk to NFCC, National Operational Learning Group - ‘First Responder communication strategies. Talk to NFCC, National Operational Learning Group’
September
Anne gave a talk to National seminar for the Norwegian Civil Defence - 'Information sharing in emergencies: examining the evidence'
The team attended the BPS Social Psychology Section Annual Conference at the Queens University Belfast. Yunhe, Sayaka, Kayleigh and Sam gave presentations and Kayleigh was awarded Runner-up for Best Poster
August
Anne gave a Professional training lecture to local resilience leaders, Norwegian Civil Defence - Information sharing in emergencies - examining the evidence - 'Information sharing in emergencies: examining the evidence'
Anne was interviewed by BBC Scotland The Nine programme about the riots in England
Sayaka published her systematic review ‘Communicating with the public in emergencies: A systematic review of communication approaches in emergency response'. You can read the paper here
July
Anne was interviewed by the Edinburgh Research Office as part of a collection of short impact videos they are making for their Engagement and Impact Hub
June
We ran a two-day knowledge exchange workshop that brought together 45 stakeholders from government groups, first responder organisations, and academia in UK emergency response policy and practice to share our project findings, agree next steps and identify avenues for impact
Anne was interviewed for Sky News about crowd safety and social norms at Taylor Swift’s The Eras Tour
Dr Waleed Alhajri passed his viva with no corrections - huge congratulations!!!
Sayaka Hinata presented her research findings at the Groups Network Summer Workshop
Published our new paper ‘Developing and evaluating a brief, socially primed video intervention to enable bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation: A randomised control trial’. You can read it here
Published our new paper ‘Understanding crowd responses to perceived hostile threats: An innovative multidisciplinary approach’. You can read it here
May
Anne was a speaker at the PPLS Impact Festival 2024, for the panel, ‘Maximising impact from interdisciplinary research’
Waleed published his paper ‘Shared social identity and social norms shape risk-taking at mass gatherings’. You can read it here
April
Anne gave a presentation at LSE department, ‘LSE - Trying to understand how and why the public respond to safety guidance in emergencies’
March
Anne gave a keynote presentation and workshop to the National Crisis Centre (NCCN) as part of the Belgian Presidency of the Council of the European Union strategy to strengthen national resilience
Our research from the ‘Means of Escape’ project has been published on the UK government website. You can read the findings here
February
We are delighted to announce a publication of a new book ‘Major Incidents, Pandemics and Mental Health’ where Anne has co-written a chapter with Chris Cocking. You can read it here.
January
Exciting new article by Kayleigh and Anne ‘Identity leadership and adherence to COVID-19 safety guidance in hospital settings’ has been published in PLoS One, e0293002. You can read it here
Anne gave a talk ‘Understanding public response to first responder instructions during evacuations’ at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand
2023
December
Anne lived her dream of discussing Taylor Swift, Beyonce and Lady Gaga in her new article ‘What are concert crowds like’ in By The Barricade magazine. You can read it here.
November
Anne gave a keynote presentation ‘How and why the public responds in emergencies: A behavioural science approach’ at Women Talking Fire Conference in Leeds. The slides can be accessed here
Anne gave a talk ‘How and why the public responds in emergencies: A behavioural science approach’ to an MSc course at the Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh
October
We are delighted to share with you our latest article titled 'Group processes in emergency evacuation', published in the Fire & Risk Management Journal. Available to read here
We are very excited to share a new pre-print! You can read the pre-print of our paper 'Agent-based models of social behaviour and communication in evacuations: A systematic review' here
August
The FLF project team met for a 3-day workshop in Edinburgh, discussing Simulating the social identity approach
Anne presented to the Cabinet Office our FLF project findings so far.
July
Congratulations to Dr Yunhe Tong - our superstar postdoctoral research - for graduating his PhD in Bristol!
We presented our FLF project findings so far to the Communities National Preparedness Group.
We wrote for SFPE Europe about our work on group dynamics during evacuations. Read our artice here.
The group gave several presentation at the 19th General Meeting of the European Association of Social Psychology in Krakow, Poland. Further details are available here.
June
At the Pedestrian and Evacuation Dynamics conference, Anne presented work from the systematic review on how communication and social behaviour are operationalised in evacuation models
Anne presented research on first responders’ approaches to the pubic in emergencies to the Turkish Psychological Association
Our new editorial ‘Social Identity Modelling’ is now out! Read it here.
May
We have released the headline findings from our interviews with first responders. You can read our report here to find out about the challenges first responders reported facing when coordinating with the public in emergencies, their views on best practice for communication, and our upcoming activities
Our paper ‘Information sharing and support among residents in response to fire incidents in high-rise residential buildings’ is now out! It’s free to access here
Anne has been promoted to Senior Lecturer in Social Psychology! Her new role will begin in August this year
We have a new paper out about how residents of HRRBs respond to fire safety guidance. You can read out paper ‘Who and what is trusted in fire incidents? The role of trust in guidance and guidance creators in resident response to fire incidents in high-rise residential buildings’ here
March
Our new ESRC ‘‘Perceived threats and “stampedes”: a relational model of collective fear responses” project report led by Prof John Drury is out! It details our research into how members of the public respond in emergencies, including who they attend to when deciding response. You can read the report here and learn more about the project here
February
Waleed Alhajri’s new paper is now available online! You can read his paper ‘Social norms and risks at mass gatherings: A systematic review’ here
January
Welcome to Yunhe Tong who is starting as a postdoctoral research on the ‘Simulating the impact of first responder communication strategies on citizen adherence in emergencies’ project. We are very excited to have Yunhe as part of the team!
Kayleigh Smith has written a blog about her MSc project which explored identity leadership in hospital settings during COVID-19. Read the blog here
Anne gave a talk titled ‘Simulating the impact of first responder communication strategies on public behaviour in emergencies' at Public Response to Perceived Threats seminar, London. You can view information about the related project here:http://www.sussex.ac.uk/psychology/crowdsidentities/projects/stampedes
2022
December
Sayaka Hinata has written a blog about her important PhD research into relations between first responders and the public in emergencies. Read it here
November
New paper! Nik Hlubek’s paper ‘A social identity approach to COVID-19 transmission in hospital settings’ is now available online. You can read it here
Kayleigh Smith’s paper ‘Social identity processes associated with perceived risk at pilot sporting events during COVID-19’ is now published in issue! The paper is open access and can be read here
September
Kayleigh Smith started her PhD which will explore the drivers of safety at major sporting events. The PhD is co-funded by the Sports Grounds Safety Authority and the Scottish Graduate School of Social Science. You can read more about the research here
August
The Cabinet Office published guidance ‘Crisis Communication: A behavioural approach’ featuring research from the Identities and Collective Behaviour team. The guide can be accessed here
Anne presented a keynote talk to FIRECO ‘Using social psychology to understand evacuee behaviour’. The talk can be watched here (but requires registering)
Sayaka Hinata presented her poster ‘Interactions between the public and emergency services in disasters: A systematic review’ at the BPS SPS conference. Anne acted as a discussant in the symposium ‘Perceived threats and 'stampedes': A new approach to collective fear responses’ for the ‘Perceived threats and ‘stampedes’’ project
Claire Nash, Layla Lewis and Anne presented their work in the symposium ‘Social identity processes in response to fire incidents in high-rise residential buildings’ at the BPS SPS conference. Anne was then presented with the BPS SPS Early Career Award and gave her accompanying keynote lecture
At the BPS SPS conference, Nik Hlubek, Kayleigh Smith and Kirsty Wiseman-Gregg presented their work in the symposium ‘Insights from hospital workers on leadership, perceived risk, and communication approaches during the Covid-19 pandemic’ and then Waleed Alhajri presented his thesis research ‘Social Norms and Risks at Mass Gatherings: A Systematic Review’.
July
Congratulations to Waleed Alhajri, Sayaka Hinata, Kayleigh Smith, Nik Hlubek, Kirsty Wiseman-Gregg, Jean Skelton, Eve Stanley, Claire Nash, Layla Lewis, Lisa Li, Klara Jurstakova, Nuria Martinez, Guan Mao, and Yasemin Ulusahin who all had talks or posters accepted to the BPS Social Psychology Section annual conference!
Sam Vo presented their talk ‘Developing a Typology of Public Support for Social Movements: A Systematic Review of the Psychological Literature’ at the International Society of Political Psychology conference in Athens.
June
Congratulations to Anne who has been chosen as the Early Career Award recipient by the British Psychology Society Social Psychology Section! Anne will present her paper ‘Walking together: Behavioural signatures of psychological crowds’ at the annual conference in September, focusing on how the paper led to her current research.
Kirsty Wiseman-Gregg and Anne presented a talk ‘Developing communication approaches to facilitate staff uptake in infection prevention activities’ to the Infection Prevention Society Scotland Branch Conference.
May
Anne took part in an interview for the Fire Science Show podcast. You can hear the episode 'More realism in evacuation modelling with Anne Templeton’ here.
Anne presented a talk ‘Evacuation behaviour in psychological crowds’ to the CATA research group in the Université Clermont Auvergne and the Laboratoire de Psychologie Sociale et Cognitive.
Sayaka Hinata and Anne attended the EMS2022 conference. Anne presented a Ted Talk ‘Simulating the impact of first responder communication strategies on citizen adherence in emergencies’ to advertise the UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship.
April
Anne is now an Associate Editor for the British Journal of Social Psychology
Congratulations to Kayleigh Smith for publishing her first paper as first author! Kayleigh’s paper examines the role of social identity processes on spectators’ perceived risk at pilot sporting events during COVID-19. You can read the paper here: https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12541
Waleed Alhajri presented his work ‘Social Norms and Risks at Mass Gatherings: A Systematic Review’ to the Crowds and Identities research group at the University of Sussex
Waleed Alhajri presented his work ‘Social Norms and Risks at Mass Gatherings: A Systematic Review’ to the Crowds and Identities research group at the University of Sussex. Also, Anne and Kirsty presented an overview of their findings from the ScotGov project ‘Identifying barriers and avenues to safe behaviours in high-risk workplaces’ to the hospital management group of one of the case study hospitals in the project.
Layla Lewis presented her talk ‘Helping or hindering? The role of group processes in aiding or delaying high-rise evacuations’ at the BPS Scotland Student undergraduate conference. Many congratulations to Layla who gave a great presentation and won the prize for the common good!
March
Anne chaired the kick off meeting for the UKRI Future Leaders Project ‘Simulating the impact of first responder communication strategies on citizen adherence in emergencies’. This was the first time the co-investigators, technical partners and project partners met together, marking the start of the work for the fellowship!
Claire Nash presented results from the Means of Escape project to representatives from the UK Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and fire and rescue service brigades across England
Anne took part in a BBC World Service Deeply Human podcast where she talked about how feeling in a group with others in the crowd can impact experiences and actions at crowd events. You can see the short summary video here and listen to the whole podcast here.
February
Anne presented a talk entitled ‘The (mis)use of controversial terminologies in evacuation research’ to the working group on Human Behaviour in Fires by the International Association for Fire Safety Science. The talk can be found on youtube here.
