Crowds & Identities
See how our research provides a theoretical framing for our multiple experiences of crowd events and offers recommendations for practice and policy.
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- The evolving normative dimensions of ‘riot’: Towards an elaborated social identity explanation Funded by @ukri.org doi.org/10.1002/ejsp...
- Self-categorization as a basis of behavioural mimicry: Experiments in The Hive Funded by @ukri.org doi.org/10.1371/jour...
- Public behaviour in response to perceived hostile threats: An evidence base and guide for practitioners and policymakers Funded by @ukri.org doi.org/10.20919/VJV...
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- The Psychology of Crowd Behaviour This review by @profjohndrury.bsky.social describes the social identity approach to crowd behavior. Research based on the social identity approach to crowds has grown significantly in the last 20yrs, both quantitatively and qualitatively. www.qeios.com/read/K26NKZ
- Stop blaming migrants and tackle UK’s real problems, 100 charities tell home secretary www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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- Public behaviour in response to perceived hostile threats: An evidence base and guide for practitioners and policymakers Funded by @ukri.org doi.org/10.20919/VJV...
- ‘Representations of crowd behaviour in the management of mass emergencies’ was a project funded by leverhulme.ac.uk. You can find open access papers from this project on our website: www.sussex.ac.uk/research/lab...
- ‘Effects of social identity on responses to mass emergency evacuation’ was a project funded by @ukri.org. We have open access papers from this project on our website: www.sussex.ac.uk/research/lab...
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- River pollution twice as bad inside national parks as outside them “Without change, local groups working to protect national park waterways are often swimming against the current. Water regulators and companies have ignored national parks for far too long.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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- Reposted by Crowds & IdentitiesJust arrived in the post! The new book on crowds & leadership, from @metesefauysal.bsky.social @swedishprotests.bsky.social & Yasemin Acar
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- Scientists make 'superfood' that could save honeybees www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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- Sussex tortoise reunited with owner thanks to lorry driver “Stories like this remind us how powerful collective kindness can be.” www.theargus.co.uk/news/2543300...
- Crackdown on international students could hurt struggling UK cities, thinktank warns www.theguardian.com/education/20...
- UK politicians must stop stoking division, says policing chief www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
- Understanding crowd responses to perceived hostile threats: a multidisciplinary approach doi.org/10.17815/CD....
- The Druids Oak is 800 years old - can it help save tomorrow's forests? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- Underestimating support for climate action limits political decision making, study says www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- Sussex GP shares her experience visiting asylum hotel www.theargus.co.uk/news/2543568...
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- Record warm seas help to bring extraordinary new species to UK waters "Scientists and amateur naturalists have observed a remarkable range of species not usually widespread in UK waters, including octopus, bluefin tuna and mauve stinger jellyfish." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- ‘You had to fend for yourself’: Hurricane Katrina haunts New Orleans as Trump guts disaster aid www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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- Evaluation of psychology-based training for improving interoperability in the emergency services: a comparison of online and in-person delivery methods www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- How the Social Identity Approach can improve interoperability in multi-agency emergency response teams @profjohndrury.bsky.social @loudavidson.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
- Understanding collective flight responses to (mis)perceived hostile threats in Britain 2010-2019: a systematic review of ten years of false alarms in crowded spaces Funded by @ukri.org doi.org/10.1080/1366...
- Natural England hails recovery of 150 struggling species "In Hastings, East Sussex, the rare hawksbeard mining bee was discovered for the first time in a century buzzing between blooms in newly created wildflower meadows." www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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- Gardeners urged to collaborate to help moths and hover flies thrive in cities "Researchers found moths and hover flies are more negatively affected by urbanisation than bees" www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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- Reposted by Crowds & IdentitiesBIG NEWS: For the first time in six years, Britain's rarest breeding bird has successfully nested in the UK! A pair of Montagu's Harriers have raised four healthy chicks, all of which have taken their first flights.
- ‘Climateflation’ could push up UK food prices by more than a third by 2050, report says "Britain is at risk of a worsening “climateflation” crisis amid the fallout from increasingly extreme weather that could drive up food prices by more than a third by 2050." www.theguardian.com/business/202...
- Wildfires rage in Greece and Turkey as extreme heat persists www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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- The role of “zero-responders” during 7/7: implications for the emergency services Funded by @ukri.org doi.org/10.1108/IJES...
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- ‘Like working in a volcano’: stories from six countries in Europe on a day of extreme heat www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
- ‘Nothing to lose or a world to win’: Reconsidering efficacy, legitimacy, political trust and repression in confrontational collective action doi.org/10.1111/bjso...
- Thousands meet their MPs to show huge demand for climate action More than 5,000 people from across the UK arrived in Westminster on Wednesday to meet their MPs and demand urgent climate action to protect their communities. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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- The seagulls have landed: why gulls are encroaching on Britain’s towns. Avian invaders have coastal communities in Britain and beyond in a flap – but people are learning how to live with them. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- On the role of a social identity analysis in articulating structure and collective action: the 2011 riots in Tottenham and Hackney Funded by @ukri.org doi.org/10.1093/bjc/...
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- On the role of a social identity analysis in articulating structure and collective action: the 2011 riots in Tottenham and Hackney Funded by @ukri.org doi.org/10.1093/bjc/...
- Sharks and oysters set to thrive in warmer UK waters "The UK could see a boom in endangered sharks, rays and native oysters as species move habitats to respond to rising ocean temperatures, according to scientists." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- Public behaviour in response to perceived hostile threats: An evidence base and guide for practitioners and policymakers Funded by @ukri.org doi.org/10.20919/VJV...
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- Swifts’ decline: how can Britons help these remarkable birds? www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- ‘A slap in the face’: Grenfell officials still working in housing eight years after fire www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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- Beyond normative and non-normative: a systematic review on predictors of confrontational collective action doi.org/10.1111/bjso...
- One of our most cited papers from the work we did on Covid mutual aid groups: 'What have we learned about COVID-19 volunteering in the UK? A rapid review of the literature' Funded by @ukri.org bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
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- Hajj, the annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca (Makkah), is starting tonight. A Crowds and Identities alumni, Dr Hani Alnabulsi, studied the crowd psychology for Hajj during his PhD. www.sussex.ac.uk/research/lab... [Thread with open access publications and blog posts]
- This interactive map show locations of the 1831 reform riots: riot1831.com/2023/04/1831...
- You can find case studies of the 1831 reform riots here: riot1831.com/category/cas...
- If you're interested in history and riots, you should check out the Riot 1831 site: Intergroup dynamics within the 1831 reform riots - towards a new social psycho-history riot1831.com
- Read our research findings on perceived hostile threats and collective false alarms. www.sussex.ac.uk/research/pro...
- Police sent to wrong hotel in disorder, study says. The report, called Understanding the 2024 Summer Riots in the UK, was led by academics from @sussex.ac.uk and examined disorder in Bristol, Hanley, in Stoke-on-Trent, and Tamworth. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
