Our brilliant alumni

  • Chiara Addison, Research Assistant

    Chiara is a research assistant at the University of Edinburgh, who focuses on research interventions to promote safe behaviour in healthcare settings

    Project: ScotGov reducing COVID-19 transmission by identifying barriers and avenues to safe behaviours in high-risk workplaces

  • Waleed Alhajri, PhD Student

    Waleed is a PhD researcher at the University of Edinburgh researching the role of group processes and social norms in risk-taking at mass gatherings


    Project: The role of perceived norms on risk taking at mass gatherings

  • Rebecca Blaikie, Project Student

    Rebecca is a final year undergraduate Cognitive Science student at the University of Edinburgh, researching the role of group processes and social norms underlying adherence to COVID-19 guidelines at pilot crowd events.

    Project: DCMS Events Research Programme

  • Nandita Dhanda, Research Assistant

    Nandita is a research assistant exploring barriers to safe evecuations. She is also a recent masters graduate in Psychological Research from the University of Edinburgh with interest in researching intergroup relations and collective action (primarily in religious and political contexts)


    Project: Understanding barriers to safe evacuation in environmental emergencies

  • Oliver Ellis, Research Assistant

    Oliver earned an MA (Hons) in Psychology at the University of Edinburgh, with a dissertation focusing on collective experiences at trans pride events


    Project: DCMS Events Research Programme

  • Jennifer Dang Guay, Research Assistant

    Jennifer is studying a MSc in Statistics and Data Science at KU Leuven after graduating from MSc Psychological Research at the University of Edinburgh. She is interested in group processes and social norms in promoting pro-social behaviours through interventions

    Projects: DCMS Events Research Programme; Promoting bystander CPR

  • Klara Jurstakova, Research Assistant

    Klara is a research assistant on the DCMS Events Research Programme. She is also a PhD researcher at Canterbury Christ Church University researching collective action in ‘communist’ Czechoslovakia and leadership

    Project: DCMS Events Research Programme

  • Layla Lewis, Project Student

    Layla is a fourth year honours student at the University of Edinburgh, researching group processes in evacuations of high-rise buildings in the UK


    Project: MHCLG Means of escape in residential buildings

  • Yizhen (Lisa) Li, Project Student

    Yizhen (Lisa) is an undergraduate student researcher at the University of Edinburgh, researching group process in evacuations of high-rise buildings in the UK. Her main research interests are group dynamics and collective behaviours

    Project: MHCLG Means of escape in residential buildings

  • Guan Mao, Research Assistant

    Guan is a research assistant on the DCMS Events Research Programme. He is also a research assistant at the University of Sussex, conducting research into behavioural issues around Covid-19 including mutual aid groups, vaccination passports, and large-scale events


    Project: DCMS Events Research Programme

  • Nuria Martinez Tevar, Research Assistant

    Nuria is a PhD researcher at Canterbury Christ Church University, exploring the role of group processes in sustaining collective action towards socio-political change

    Project: DCMS Events Research Programme

  • Alice Mason, Project Student

    Alice is an undergraduate student at the University of Edinburgh, currently working on a dissertation project about utilising the social identity approach to improve responses to cyclone evacuation warnings in Bangladesh

    Project: Understanding public responses to cyclone evacuation warnings in Bangladesh

  • Eilidh McNaughton, Project Student

    Eilidh is an undergraduate psychology student at the University of Edinburgh, researching the role of religious beliefs and information level on public responses to natural disasters in Bangladesh

    Project: Understanding public responses to cyclone evacuation warnings in Bangladesh

  • Jenny Overend, Project Student

    Jenny is a 4th year undergraduate Psychology student at the University of Edinburgh, currently undertaking her dissertation in the role of group processes and how they influence public adherence to COVID-19 guidance.


    Project: DCMS Events Research Programme

  • Jean Skelton, Research Assistant

    Jean is a research assistant on the ScotGov Reducing COVID-19 project. She is also a research assistant with the Resuscitation Research Group, University of Edinburgh. Her research focuses on the barriers and facilitators to COVID-safe behaviours in healthcare settings and the impact of social norms on attitudes towards bystander CPR


    Projects: Reducing COVID-19 transmission in healthcare settings by identifying barriers and avenues to safe behaviours in high-risk workplaces; Promoting bystander CPR

  • Eve Stanley, Research Assistant

    Eve is a research assistant at the University of Edinburgh with a keen interest in identity, relationships, and health and well-being

    Project: Reducing COVID-19 transmission by identifying barriers and avenues to safe behaviours in high-risk workplaces

  • Dr Selin Tekin, Postdoctoral Researcher

    Selin is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of St Andrews. Her research focuses on understanding how working-class and minority ethnic groups form post-disaster justice campaigns overcome social and systemic injustices


    Projects: Understanding the dynamics between police and environmental protestors around COP26; The social psychology of community organizing following the Grenfell Tower fire of 2017

  • Yasemin Ulusahin, Research Assistant

    Yasemin is a research assistant on the DCMS Events Research Programme. She is also a PhD candidate at the University of St Andrews, whose research focuses on the group-processes involved in mobilization and effective leadership that attracts people to populism

    Project: DCMS Events Research Programme

  • Dr Kirsty Wiseman-Gregg, Postdoctoral Researcher

    Kirsty is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Edinburgh, specialising in research interventions to promote safe behaviour in healthcare settings

    Project: Reducing COVID-19 transmission by identifying barriers and avenues to safe behaviours in high-risk workplaces