1. On the anniversary of 9-11, the most well-researched disaster of all time (at least until Covid), here is a thread of some of the readings I recommend on public behaviour during the event (mostly free access) #September11th

Now the brilliant Selin Tekin presenting discursive work on the use of racist language in/after disasters using the Turkish earthquake 2021 as a case study BPS Social Psychology Section

Crowds & Identities family and friends at BPS Social Psychology Section, convened by Anne Templeton

Second day of BPS Social Psychology Section conference!! I am so grateful for finally be reunited with fantastic Melis Uluğ who is one of the most supportive and caring colleague of early career scholars. To learn her current works and more news please follow CAN: Collective Action Network events!!

Six zombie ideas in crowd psychology again, because I keep hearing uncritical reference to 'contagion', 'groupthink' etc. blogs.sussex.ac.uk/crowdsidentiti…

“The Social Psychology of Trauma: Connecting the personal and the political” of Orla Muldoon is out and open access: cambridge.org/gb/universityp… Fanstastic Book Taster Session at BPS Social Psychology Section conference!! convened by Catriona Shelly

Thank you to everyone who attended our talk BPS Social Psychology Section, and thanks for joining me, Anne Templeton and John Drury and Yunhe:) #SPSconf2024

Congratulations Kayleigh Smith on winning runner-up for the best poster prize at #spsconf BPS Social Psychology Section

The poster prizes at #spsconf, including Kayleigh Smith and Chris Cocking

This week, I had the pleasure of organising and facilitating my first panel talk at #SPSConf2024! The symposium was titled: "Discursive and rhetorical psychological approaches to contemporary political discourse". I'm pleased to hear that the attendees were engaged!!! 🤩

Dear friends who work on allyship, solidarity and collective action, We, fantastic Dr. Maria Chayinska, Julia Schreiber, Laura K Taylor 💙💛 and I, proposed a multi-dimensional typology of allyship action in violent intergroup conflict settings (published in ERSP). tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Video of my presentation this week for the Kian Foundation - collective resilience in spontaneous groups in emergencies (and the recovery period): youtube.com/watch?v=_p5P1u…

I ran the "UnEssay" assignment again this year, and once again, my students UQPsych blew me away! Here are some of their creations (shared with permission)...

87 months Forever in our hearts 💚