| Post: | Senior Lecturer in Social Psychology |
| Location: | Pevensey 1 2B22 |
| Email: | J.Drury@sussex.ac.uk |
| Telephone numbers | |
| Internal: | 2514 |
| UK: | (01273) 872514 |
| International: | +44 1273 872514 |
Biography
Sussex University: Psychology Home Page
Education:
PGCert Learning & Teaching, University of Sussex, 2002-2004
PhD Psychology, University of Exeter, 1992-1996
MSc Psychological Research Methods, University of Exeter, 1992-3, (Distinction)
BA (Hons) Social Psychology, University of Sussex, 1989-1992 (1st)
Posts held:
University of Sussex: Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Social Psychology, 1998-present
Trust for the Study of Adolescence: Research psychologist, 1996-98
Academic and admin roles:
'Research Methods 2' Spring term Course Convenor, 2008-
'Psychology of Collective Action' Course Convenor, 2004-
MSc module 'Discourse Analysis' Course Convenor, 2002-7
MSc module 'Discourse analysis for psychology' convenor, 2009-
Final year tutor, 2008-
Psychology Laboratory Director, 2003-6
Role
Senior Lecturer in Social PsychologyCommunity & Business
Member of the Steering Committee, 'Crowds and Communities' digital business-University liaison group.
Consultancies include the National Police CBRN Centre, NATO/the Department of Health Emergency Planning Division, Birmingham Resilience, and the Civil Contingencies Secretariat.
I run a Continued Professional Development (CPD) course on the Psychology of Crowd Management for relevant professionals, and I teach on the CPD course on Policing Major Incidents at the University of Liverpool.
For further details of my Community and Business links, see http://www.sussex.ac.uk/affiliates/panic/applications.html
Research
The core of my research interests is the study of crowd psychology. Crowd events are a locus of both psychological determination and transformation. I have carried out research on processes of crowd conflict and change in relation to anti-poll tax protests, anti-roads direct actions and football crowds. Some of my recent research has examined how participants might feel empowered through crowd experiences, and how such positive emotional feelings might affect other areas of their lives.
With colleagues and research students, I have recently extended some of the ideas developed in the research on crowd dynamics to two related areas.
First, for the last six years I have been working on the psychology of emergency mass evacuation. Early models suggested that irrational panic was a generic reaction to collective threat. However, in the literature there are numerous examples of co-operation and even helping behaviours amongst crowd participants escaping from danger. My research sought to examine the extent to which a shared social identity might encourage such co-operative behaviours, and hence more efficient collective escape. This research was carried out using interviews, archive data, laboratory simulations and an innovative computer visualizations. For details, see my research web-page: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/affiliates/panic/
Second, we have carried out a number of studies investigating the mediating role of social identity in cognitive, behavioural and emotional reactions to situations of crowding. We have used an original experimental paradigm to explore the way that one's 'tolerance' for crowding, or 'personal space', isn't a given of situation, person or culture, but is variable depending on whichever of one's multiple identities is salient in relation to the identities of others present. We have also begun to explore this topic using field work, surveys and interviews.
While the experimental method is useful for examining the impact of given contexts and experimenter-induced identities on action, it is less useful for exposing the chronological process whereby power is challenged and some of the alternative ways of construing such power relations. Much of my research, therefore, has been ethnographic, since this approach allows us to trace interactive and historical aspects of intergroup relations. Further, since power is partly sustained through systems of meaning, I also use critical discourse analysis as a way of understanding, exposing and subverting domination, and thereby creating the space for 'liberatory' discourses. An example of this is the way that crowds - particularly working class crowds, protest crowds and mass emergency crowds - are routinely pathologized and/or criminalized; such constructions have important implications for policy and practice. In my research, I have sought to problematize such accounts and hence suggest a language for the crowd that recognizes and indeed celebrates its positive role in the social world.
Teaching
Continued Professional Development
Psychology of Crowd Management
Research post-graduate:DPhil and MPhil supervision
Masters:
Dissertation supervision Discourse Analysis for Psychology
Third year:
Psychology of Collective ActionFinal-year research project dissertations
Philosophy of Psychology (Social constructionism)
Second year:
Research Methods in Psychology: Social Research Methods (Discourse Analysis, Interviewing)
Social Psychology (Collective behaviour)
First year:
Psychology and social Issues (Crowd management)
Publications
Drury, J., Cocking, C., & Reicher, S. (in press, 2009). Everyone for themselves? A comparative study of crowd solidarity among emergency survivors. British Journal of Social Psychology, 48 DOI:10.1348/014466608X357893
Drury, J., & Reicher, S. (In press, 2009). Collective psychological empowerment as a model of social change: Researching crowds and power. Journal of Social Issues.
Williams, R. J. W., & Drury, J. (In press, 2009). Psychosocial resilience and its influence on managing mass emergencies and disasters. Psychiatry, 8,
Novelli, D., Drury, J., & Reicher, S. (In press). Come together: Two studies concerning the impact of group relations on ‘personal space'. British Journal of Social Psychology
Drury, J., Cocking, C., Reicher, S., Burton, A., Schofield, D., Hardwick, A., Graham, D., & Langston, P. (in press, 2009). Co-operation versus competition in a mass emergency evacuation: A new laboratory simulation and a new theoretical model Behavior Research Methods.
Cocking, C., Drury, J., & Reicher, S. (2009). The psychology of crowd behaviour in emergency evacuations: Results from two interview studies and implications for the Fire & Rescue Services. Irish Journal of Psychology, 30, 59-72.
Drury, J. (2009). Managing crowds in emergencies: Psychology for business continuity. Business Continuity Journal, 3, 14-24.
Barr, D., & Drury, J. (In press, 2009). Activist identity as a motivational resource: Dynamics of (dis)empowerment at the G8 direct actions, Gleneagles, 2005. Social Movement Studies, 8
Singha, H., Arterb, R., Dodd, L., Langston, P., Lester, E., & Drury, J. (In press). Modelling Subgroup Behaviour in Crowd Dynamics DEM Simulation. Applied Mathematical Modelling
Drury, J., Cocking, C., & Reicher, S. (2009). The nature of collective resilience: Survivor reactions to the 2005 London bombings. International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters, 27, 66-95.
Smith, A., James, C., Jones, R., Langston, P., Lester, E., & Drury, J. (2009). Modelling contra-flow in crowd dynamics DEM simulation. Safety Science, 47, 395-404.
Cocking, C., & Drury, J. (2008). The mass psychology of disasters and emergency evacuations: A research report and implications for the Fire and Rescue Service. Fire Safety, Technology and Management, 10, 13-19.
Reicher, S., Stott, C., Drury, J., Adang, O., Cronin, P., & Livingstone, A. (2007). Knowledge-based public order policing: Principles and practice. Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice, 1, 403-415. doi:10.1093/police/pam067
Stott, C. & Drury, J. (2004) The importance of social structure and social interaction in stereotype consensus and content: is the whole greater than the sum of its parts? European Journal of Social Psychology, 34, 11-23.
Cocking, C. & Drury, J. (2004). Generalization of efficacy as a function of collective action and intergroup relations: Involvement in an anti-roads struggle. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 34, 417-444.
Drury, J., Stott, C. & Farsides, T. (2003). The role of police perceptions and practices in the development of public disorder. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 33, 1480-1500.
Stott, C., Hutchison, P. & Drury, J. (2001). 'Hooligans' abroad? Inter-group dynamics, social identity and participation in collective 'disorder' at the 1998 World Cup Finals. British Journal of Social Psychology, 40, 359-384.