Identities, values and social change
Our research group seeks to understand how individual, group, and institutional identities and beliefs shape our individual behaviours, group conflicts, politics, and more.
For further information about the Identities, Values, and Social Change Research Group, please contact Research Group Lead, Dr Katie Wright-Bevans.
Group members and expertise
Dr Huseyin Cakal
Intergroup relations, the dynamics of collective action and prejudice reduction strategies, effects of social identity and intergroup contact on health, and intergroup emotions among advantaged and disadvantaged groups. Full staff profile
Dr Daljinder Chalmers
Working collaboratively across disciplines (art, music and design) to assist in both understanding a problem and providing different perspectives as part of a solution. Working with historically, persistently or systemically marginalised (HPSM) groups. Full staff profile
Dr Jenny Cole
Qualitative critical social and health psychologist interested in gender, health, and the body, particularly interested in the impacts of weight stigma on health. Full staff profile
Dr Alexandra Kent
Conversation analysis and discursive psychology to study the practical accomplishment of social life. Addressing the question of how people interact with each other. Full staff profile
Professor Abigail Locke
Critical social/health psychologist. Qualitative methodologies to explore gender, parenting, health and identities. Parenting Experiences & Identities: Mothers, Fathers and Carers. Infant Feeding. Social Media, Relationships and Gender. Full staff profile
Dr Masi Noor
Forgiveness, why people forgive, what enables them to forgive and what stops them to forgive, effects of forgiveness and communication of forgiveness. Full staff profile
Dr Chris Stiff
Cyberpsychology, video games, social media, fake news, cybercrime, virtual reality. Safe social media use and using social media positively. Full staff profile
Professor Clifford Stott
Crowds, 'riots', 'hooliganism' and policing, social identity; social psychological aspects of Procedural Justice Theory; ethnography and participant action research; inter-disciplinary research on security. Full staff profile
Dr Katie Wright-Bevans
Social representations of identities, groups, communities and “taboo” or stigmatised phenomena, using creative qualitative methods to explore pathways to social change. Full staff profile
