Projects
Find out about our current and previous projects and listen to some of our podcasts.
Our research interests
Our research interests include:
- collective action participation as a source of psychological transformation, including politicisation, empowerment, and wellbeing
- collective resilience in mass emergencies and disasters
- cognitive, behavioural, and emotional reactions to situations of crowding
- the practical and political implications of pathologizing (versus liberatory) discursive constructions of crowds.
Our projects
Select the project you'd like to know more about below.
- BR-UK rapid research on the 2024 summer riots
- Understanding and enhancing crowd safety and audience experience through psychology
- Facilitating the public response to COVID-19 by harnessing group processes
- Perceived threats and 'stampedes': a relational model of collective fear responses
- Beyond contagion: Social identity processes in involuntary social influence
- The crowd psychology of the annual Hajj
- Intergroup dynamics within the 1831 reform riots: towards a new social psycho-history
- Effects of social identity on responses to mass emergency evacuation (ESRC project)
- Representations of crowd behaviour in the management of mass emergencies (Leverhulme project)
- Communication in a CBRN mass decontamination incident
- Collective psychological empowerment
- Modelling collective behaviour in computer simulations
- Seismic Cities
Our podcasts
Listen to our podcast Beyond Contagion: Understanding the Spread of Riots.
It is an original three-part podcast series bringing together leading academics ten years after the 2011 English riots to explore the origins and findings of the Beyond Contagion research and how it is informing contemporary studies on rioting and public disorder.
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Contact
If you have any questions, email J.Drury@sussex.ac.uk.