Future Leaders Fellow

University of Edinburgh

Dr Anne Templeton is a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Social Psychology at the University of Edinburgh. She leads the Identities and Collective Behaviour research group. Her research primarily focuses on using the social identity approach to improve crowd safety in emergencies and at mass events. Anne does this through exploring the role of social identities in communication between crowd members and safety personnel, and incorporating the role of social identities into pedestrian models of collective behaviour. Anne has either conducted research or advised on crowd safety for the UK Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, UK Sport, the Sports Grounds Safety Authority, the UK Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Local Communities, the Hajj, PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Winter Games, Rail Safety and Standards Boards, Local Authority Building Control, and the Cabinet Office.

Projects: All of the exciting research shown on the website

Clinical Senior Lecturer

University of Edinburgh

Gareth leads the Resuscitation Research Group (RRG). He also works as an Honorary Consultant in Emergency Medicine at the Royal Infirmary in Edinburgh and Associate Medical Director for the Scottish Ambulance Service. RRG research interests include the management of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, non-technical skills in time critical resuscitation, and the national implementation of the ‘Chain of Survival’ through Scotland’s strategy for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. The group is the home of the national ‘Save a Life for Scotland’ partnership and the ‘Language of Resuscitation’ social sciences collaboration.

PhD Student

University of Edinburgh

Sayaka is a PhD researcher at the University of Edinburgh, researching effective communication approaches in emergency situation such as relationships between emergency responders and public

Project: Intergroup dynamics between first responders and citizens in evacuations

Research Assistant

University of Edinburgh

Claire is a research assistant on the means of escape project. She is also a PhD researcher at the University of Strathclyde, researching the difference in attitudes towards poverty, inequality and wealth redistribution between Scotland and England over the past 40 years

Project: MHCLG Means of escape in residential buildings

PhD Student

University of Edinburgh

Kayleigh is a PhD student at the University of Edinburgh and her research interest is in the intergroup processes associated with feelings of safety at sporting events.

Projects: DCMS Events Research Programme; Reducing COVID-19 transmission by identifying barriers and avenues to safe behaviours in high-risk workplaces

Postdoctoral Research Associate

University of Edinburgh

Yunhe is a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Edinburgh. He has an engineering and psychology background and has nearly five years of experience in crowd behaviour. His research focuses on how various attributes shape individual behaviour using well-controlled virtual reality experiments and how crowd dynamics emerge from individual interactions using mathematical and computational models.

Project: Simulating the impact of first responder communication strategies on citizen adherence in emergencies

PhD Student

University of Edinburgh

Tam (Sam) is a PhD student at the University of Edinburgh. Sam’s research interests include intergroup relations, collective action and social change. Specifically, Sam is interested in the psychological mechanisms behind public support for protests and social movement. Sam’s doctoral research is funded by the University of Edinburgh’s Principal’s Career Development Scholarship

Project: Public support for social movements