The Leverhulme Project:

Representations of crowd behaviour in the management of mass emergencies

Publications

Drury, J., Novelli, D., & Stott, C. (2015). Managing to avert disaster: Explaining collective resilience at an outdoor music event. European Journal of Social Psychology.doi: 10.1002/ejsp.2108

Drury, J., Novelli, D., & Stott, C. (2013). Psychological disaster myths in the perception and management of mass emergencies. Journal of Applied Social Psychology.43, 2259–2270. doi: 10.1111/jasp.12176

Drury, J., Novelli, D., & Stott, C. (2013). Representing crowd behaviour in emergency planning guidance: ‘Mass panic’ or collective resilience?. Resilience: International Policies, Practices and Discourses, 1(1), 18–37. doi.org/10.1080/21693293.2013.765740

Drury, J. (2014). Getting the crowd behind you. Continuity, 3, 16-17.

The Leverhulme 'crowding' study

Conference papers

Drury, J., Novelli, D., & Stott, C. (2013). Representing crowd danger and facilitating crowd safety at an outdoor music event: An intergroup account of emergency management. British Psychological Society Social Psychology Section Annual Conference, Exeter, August.

Novelli, D., Drury, J., & Stott, C. (2012). Managing to avoid disaster: A thematic analysis of crowd safety professionals’ accounts of crowd behaviour at the Big Beach Boutique. British Psychological Society Social Psychology Section Annual Conference, St Andrews, August.

Drury, J., Novelli, D., & Stott, C. (2012). Resilient and vulnerable psychosocial subjects: Individuals, communities and crowds in emergency planning documentation. Discourse – Communication – Conversation, Loughborough University, March.

Drury, J., Novelli, D. & Stott, C. (2011). Disaster myths and resilience beliefs in the management of mass emergencies.British Psychological Society Social Psychology Section Annual Conference, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge University, September.

Drury, J. & Novelli, D. (2011). Crowd representations in event management: Effects on wellbeing and collective resilience.16th General Meeting of the European Association of Social Psychology, Stockholm, Sweden, July.

Press coverage

British Psychological Society research digest, 22nd October 2013

University news articles

http://www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/read/5032

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