The Deputy Director of Research and Knowledge Exchange (Impact) in the School of Psychology.

John Drury is also the convenor (at Sussex) for courses in: Psychology of Crowds and Collective Action; Social Research Methods in Psychology; Discourse Analysis for Psychology.

Selected publications

Article

Vestergren, Sara, Drury, John and Hammar Chiriac, Eva (2016) The biographical consequences of protest and activism: a systematic review and a new typology. Social Movement Studies. ISSN 1474-2837

Drury, John, Shayegh, John and Stevenson, Clifford (2016) Listen to the band! How sound can realise group identity and enact intergroup domination. British Journal of Social Psychology. ISSN 0144-6665 (Accepted)

Carter, H, Drury, J, Rubin, G J, Williams, R and Amlôt, R (2016) Mass casualty decontamination in a chemical or radiological/nuclear incident: further guiding principles. PLOS Currents: Disasters. ISSN 2157-3999 (Accepted)

von Sivers, I, Templeton, A, Künzner, F, Köster, G, Drury, John, Philippides, Andy, Neckel, T and Bungartz, H.-J. (2016)Modelling social identification and helping in evacuation simulation. Safety Science. ISSN 0925-7535 (Accepted)

Alfadhli, Khalifah and Drury, John (2016) Psychosocial support among refugees of conflict in developing countries: a critical literature review. Intervention, 14 (2). pp. 128-141. ISSN 1571-8883

Vezzali, Loris, Drury, John, Versari, Annalisa and Cadamuro, Alessia (2016) Sharing distress increases helping and contact intentions via social identification and inclusion of the other in the self: children’s prosocial behaviour after an earthquake.Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 19 (3). pp. 314-327. ISSN 1368-4302

Stott, Clifford, Drury, John and Reicher, Steve (2016) On the role of a social identity analysis in articulating structure and collective action: the 2011 riots in Tottenham and Hackney. British Journal of Criminology. ISSN 0007-0955

Stott, Clifford and Drury, John (2016) Contemporary understanding of riots: classical crowd psychology, ideology and the social identity approach. Public Understanding of Science. ISSN 0963-6625

Drury, John, Brown, Rupert, González, Roberto and Miranda, Daniel (2016) Emergent social identity and observing social support predict social support provided by survivors in a disaster: solidarity in the 2010 Chile earthquake. European Journal of Social Psychology, 406 (2). pp. 209-223. ISSN 0046-2772

Reicher, Stephen D, Templeton, Anne, Neville, Fergus, Ferrari, Lucienne and Drury, John (2016) Core disgust is attenuated by ingroup relations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113 (10). pp. 2631-2635. ISSN 0027-8424

Templeton, Anne, Drury, John and Philippides, Andrew (2015) From mindless masses to small groups: Conceptualizing collective behavior in crowd modeling. Review of General Psychology, 19 (3). pp. 215-229. ISSN 1089-2680

Drury, John, Novelli, David and Stott, Clifford (2015) Managing to avert disaster: explaining collective resilience at an outdoor music event. European Journal of Social Psychology, 45 (4). pp. 533-547. ISSN 0046-2772

Carter, Holly, Drury, John, Rubin, G James, Williams, Richard and Amlôt, Richard (2015) Applying crowd psychology to develop recommendations for the management of mass decontamination. Health Security, 13 (1). pp. 45-53. ISSN 2326-5094

Alnabulsi, Hani and Drury, John (2014) Social identification moderates the effect of crowd density on safety at the Hajj.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111 (25). pp. 9091-9096. ISSN 0027-8424

Carter, Holly, Drury, John, Amlôt, Richard, Rubin, G. James and Williams, Richard (2014) Effective responder communication improves efficiency and psychological outcomes in a mass decontamination field experiment: implications for public behaviour in the event of a chemical incident. PLoS ONE, 9 (3). e89846. ISSN 1932-6203

Cocking, Chris and Drury, John (2014) Talking about Hillsborough: ‘panic’ as discourse in survivors’ accounts of the 1989 football stadium disaster. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, 24 (2). pp. 86-99. ISSN 1052-9284

Carter, Holly Elisabeth, Drury, John, Amlôt, Richard, Rubin, G James and Williams, Richard (2014) Effective responder communication, perceived responder legitimacy, and group identification predict public cooperation and compliance in a mass decontamination visualization experiment. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 45 (3). pp. 173-189. ISSN 0021-9029

Elisabeth Carter, Holly, Drury, John, Rubin, G James, Williams, Richard and Amlôt, Richard (2014) Emergency responders’ experiences of and expectations regarding decontamination. International Journal of Emergency Services, 3 (2). pp. 179-192. ISSN 2047-0894

von Sivers, Isabella, Templeton, Anne, Köster, Gerta, Drury, John and Philippides, Andrew (2014) Humans do not always act selfishly: social identity and helping in emergency evacuation simulation. Transportation Research Procedia, 2. pp. 585-593. ISSN 2352-1465

Novelli, David, Drury, John, Reicher, Stephen and Stott, Clifford (2013) Crowdedness mediates the effect of social identification on positive emotion in a crowd: a survey of two crowd events. PLoS ONE, 8 (11). e78983. ISSN 1932-6203

Drury, John, Novelli, David and Stott, Clifford (2013) Psychological disaster myths in the perception and management of mass emergencies. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 43 (11). pp. 2259-2270. ISSN 0021-9029

Drury, John, Novelli, David and Stott, Clifford (2013) Representing crowd behaviour in emergency planning guidance: ‘mass panic’ or collective resilience? Resilience: International Policies, Practices and Discourses, 1 (1). pp. 18-37. ISSN 2169-3293

Carter, Holly, Drury, John, Rubin, G James, Williams, Richard and Amlot, Richard (2013) Communication during mass casualty decontamination: highlighting the gaps. International Journal of Emergency Services, 2 (1). pp. 29-48. ISSN 2047-0894

Carter, Holly, Drury, John, Amlôt, Richard, Rubin, G James and Williams, Richard (2013) Perceived responder legitimacy and group identification predict cooperation and compliance in a mass decontamination field exercise. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 35 (6). pp. 575-585. ISSN 0197-3533

Drury, John, Kemp, Verity, Newman, Jonathan, Novelli, David, Doyle, Christopher, Walter, Darren and Williams, Richard(2013) Psychosocial care for persons affected by emergencies and major incidents: a Delphi study to determine the needs of professional first responders for education, training and support. Emergency Medicine Journal (30). pp. 831-836. ISSN 1472-0205

Evripidou, Atalanti and Drury, John (2013) This is the time of tension: collective action and subjective power in the Greek anti-austerity movement. Contention: The Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Protest, 1. pp. 31-51. ISSN 2330-1392

Carter, Holly, Drury, John, Rubin, G James, Williams, Richard and Amlot, Richard (2013) The effect of communication during mass decontamination. Disaster Prevention and Management, 22 (2). pp. 132-147. ISSN 0965-3562

Carter, Holly, Drury, John, Rubin, G James, Williams, Richard and Amlôt, Richard (2012) Public communication needs during incidents involving emergency decontamination. Lancet, 380 (S3). S28. ISSN 0140-6736

Carter, Holly, Drury, John, Rubin, G James, Williams, Richard and Amlôt, Richard (2012) Public experiences of mass casualty decontamination. Biosecurity and Bioterrorism: Biodefense Strategy, Practice, and Science, 10 (3). pp. 280-289. ISSN 1538-7135

Drury, John and Williams, Richard (2012) Children and young people who are refugees, internally displaced persons or victims or perpetrators of war, mass violence and terrorism. Current Opinion in Psychiatry, 25 (4). pp. 277-284. ISSN 0951-7367

Drury, John (2012) Prejudice is about politics: a collective action perspective. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 35 (6). pp. 20-21. ISSN 0140-525X

Ball, Roger and Drury, John (2012) Representing the riots: the (mis)use of statistics to sustain ideological explanation.Radical Statistics, 106. pp. 4-21. ISSN 0268-6376

Brown, Rupert, deVisser, Richard, Dittmar, Helga, Drury, John, Farsides, Tom, Jessop, Donna and Sparks, Paul (2012)Social psychology and policy-making: past neglect, future promise. Public Policy Research, 18 (4). pp. 227-234. ISSN 1744-5396

Drury, John and Stott, Clifford (2011) Contextualizing the crowd in contemporary social science. Contemporary Social Science, 6 (3). pp. 276-288.

Drury, John and Reicher, Stephen D (2010) Crowd control. Scientific American Mind (21). pp. 58-65. ISSN 1555-2284

Novelli, David, Drury, John and Reicher, Steve (2010) Come together: two studies concerning the impact of group relations on personal space. British Journal of Social Psychology, 49 (2). pp. 223-236. ISSN 0144-6665

Drury, John and Reicher, Steve (2009) Collective psychological empowerment as a model of social change: researching crowds and power. Journal of Social Issues, 65 (4). pp. 707-725. ISSN 0022-4537

Singh, Harmeet, Arter, Robyn, Dodd, Louise, Langston, Paul, Lester, Edward and Drury, John (2009) Modelling subgroup behaviour in crowd dynamics DEM simulation. Applied Mathematical Modelling, 33 (12). pp. 4408-4423. ISSN 0307-904X

Drury, John, Cocking, Chris and Reicher, Steve (2009) Everyone for themselves? A comparative study of crowd solidarity among emergency survivors. British Journal of Social Psychology, 48 (3). pp. 487-506. ISSN 0144-6665

Barr, Dermot and Drury, John (2009) Activist Identity as a Motivational Resource: Dynamics of (Dis)empowerment at the G8 Direct Actions, Gleneagles, 2005. Social Movement Studies, 8 (3). 243 – 260. ISSN 1474-2837

Drury, John, Cocking, Chris, Reicher, Steve, Burton, Andy, Schofield, Damian, Hardwick, Andrew, Graham, Danielle and Langston, Paul (2009) Cooperation versus competition in a mass emergency evacuation: a new laboratory simulation and a new theoretical model. Behavior Research Methods, 41 (3). pp. 957-970. ISSN 1554-3528

Williams, Richard and Drury, John (2009) Psychosocial resilience and its influence on managing mass emergencies and disasters. Psychiatry, 8 (8). pp. 293-296. ISSN 1476-1793

Smith, Alastair, James, Christopher, Jones, Richard, Langston, Paul, Lester, Edward and Drury, John (2009) Modelling contra-flow in crowd dynamics DEM simulation. Safety Science, 47 (3). pp. 395-404. ISSN 0925-7535

Drury, John, Cocking, Chris and Reicher, Steve (2009) The Nature of Collective Resilience: Survivor Reactions to the 2005 London Bombings. International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters, 27 (1). pp. 66-95. ISSN 0280-7270

Cocking, Chris, Drury, John and Reicher, Steve (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 (1-2). pp. 64-73. ISSN 0303-3910

Drury, John and Cocking, Chris (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. pp. 13-19.

Drury, John, Cocking, Chris, Beale, Joseph, Hanson, Charlotte and Rapley, Faye (2005) The phenomenology of empowerment in collective action. British Journal of Social Psychology, 44 (3). pp. 309-328. ISSN 0144-6665

Drury, John and Reicher, Steve (2005) Explaining enduring empowerment: A comparative study of collective action and psychological outcomes. European Journal of Social Psychology, 35 (1). pp. 35-58. ISSN 0046-2772

Drury, John (2004) No need to panic. Psychologist, 17 (3). pp. 118-119. ISSN 0952-8229

Cocking, Chris and Drury, John (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 (2). pp. 417-444.

Stott, Clifford and Drury, John (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 (1). pp. 11-23. ISSN 0046-2772

Drury, John (2003) Adolescent communication with adults in authority. Journal of Language & Social Psychology, 22 (1). pp. 66-73. ISSN 0261-927X

Drury, John and Winter, Georgia (2003) Social identity as a source of strength in mass emergencies and other crowd events. International Journal of Mental Health, 32. pp. 77-93. ISSN 0020-7411

Drury, John, Reicher, Steve and Stott, Clifford (2003) Transforming the boundaries of collective identity: from the `local’ anti-road campaign to `global’ resistance? Social Movement Studies, 2 (2). pp. 191-212. ISSN 1474-2837

Drury, John (2003) What critical psychology can(‘t) do for the ‘anti-capitalist movement’. Annual Review of Critical Psychology, 3. pp. 90-113. ISSN 1746-739X

Drury, John (2002) ‘When the mobs are looking for witches to burn, nobody’s safe’: talking about the reactionary crowd.Discourse and Society, 13 (1). pp. 41-73. ISSN 0957-9265

Drury, John and Stott, Clifford (2001) Bias as a research strategy in participant observation: the case of intergroup conflict.Field Methods, 13 (1). pp. 47-67. ISSN 1525-822X

Stott, Clifford, Hutchison, Paul and Drury, John (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 (3). pp. 359-384. ISSN 0144-6665

Drury, John and Reicher, Steve (2000) Collective action and psychological change: the emergence of new social identities.British Journal of Social Psychology, 39 (4). pp. 579-604. ISSN 0144-6665

Stott, Clifford and Drury, John (2000) Crowds context and identity: dynamic categorization processes in the ‘poll tax riot’.Human Relations, 53 (2). 247 – 273. ISSN 00187267

Drury, John and Reicher, Steve (1999) The intergroup dynamics of collective empowerment: Substantiating the social identity model. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 2 (4). 381 – 402. ISSN 13684302

Book Section

Drury, John, Evripidou, Atalanti and Van Zomeren, Martijn (2015) Empowerment: the intersection of identity and power in collective action. In: Sindec, Denis, Barreto, Manuela and Costa-Lopes, Rui (eds.) Power and identity. Current Issues in Social Psych . Psychology Press, Hove, pp. 94-116. ISBN 9781848721777

Drury, John (2015) Social movements: a social psychological perspective. In: Wright, James D (ed.) International encyclopedia of the social and behavioral sciences. Elsevier, Oxford, pp. 447-453. ISBN 9780080970868

John, Drury (2014) Crowd psychology. In: Teo, Thomas (ed.) Encyclopedia of Critical Psychology. Encyclopedia of critical psychology . Springer, New York, pp. 341-344. ISBN 9781461455820

Drury, John, Reicher, Steve and Stott, Clifford (2012) The psychology of collective action: crowds and change. In: Wagoner, Brady, Jensen, Eric and Oldmeadow, Julian A (eds.) Culture and social change: transforming society through the power of ideas. Advances in cultural psychology: constructing human development . Information Age Publishing, Charlotte, NC, pp. 19-38. ISBN 9781617357589

Stott, Clifford, Drury, John and Reicher, Stephen (2012) From prejudice to collective action. In: Dixon, John and Levine, Mark (eds.) Beyond Prejudice: Extending the Social Psychology of Conflict, Inequality and Social Change. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 286-303. ISBN 9780521198165

Drury, John (2012) Collective resilience in mass emergencies and disasters: A social identity model. In: Jetten, Jolanda, Haslam, Catherine and Haslam, S Alexander (eds.) The social cure: identity, health and well-being. Psychology Press, Hove; New York, pp. 195-215. ISBN 9781848720213

Drury, John, Reicher, Steve and Stott, Clifford (2012) The psychology of collective action: crowds and change. In: Wagoner, Brady, Jensen, Eric and Oldmeadow, Julian A (eds.) Culture and social change: transforming society through the power of ideas. Advances in cultural psychology . Information Age Publishing, Charlotte, N.C.. ISBN 9781617357589

Williams, Richard and Drury, John (2011) Personal and collective psychosocial resilience: Implications for children, young people and their families involved in war and disasters. In: Cook, Daniel Thomas and Wall, John (eds.) Children and armed conflict. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 57-75. ISBN 9780230274433

Williams, Richard and Drury, John (2010) The Nature of Psychosocial Resilience and its Significance for Managing Mass Emergencies, Disasters and Terrorism. In: Awotona, A (ed.) Rebuilding sustainable communities for children and their families after disasters : a global survey. Cambridge Scholars, pp. 121-148. ISBN 9786612588112

Drury, John (2010) Identity Dynamics in Adolescent-adult Communication. In: Giles, Howard, Reid, Scott and Harwood, Jake (eds.) The Dynamics of Intergroup Communication. Language in social life series, 8 . Peter Lang, New York, pp. 53-64. ISBN 9781433103971

Drury, John (2005) Young people’s communication with adults in the institutional order. In: Williams, Angie and Thurlow, Crispin (eds.) Talking Adolescence: Perspectives on communication in the teenage years. Language As Social Action, 3 . Peter Lang, pp. 229-243. ISBN 9780820470979

Willig, Carla and Drury, John (2004) `Acting with’: Partisan participant observation as a social-practice basis for shared knowing. In: Paré, D and Larner, G (eds.) Collaborative Practice in Psychology and Therapy. Haworth Press, pp. 229-241.

Drury, John (2003) From alienation to self-objectification: The phenomenology of empowerment in collective action. In:Barker, C and Tyldesley, M (eds.) Ninth International Conference on Alternative Futures and Popular Protest: Conference Papers (Vol. 1). Manchester Metropolitan University`.

Reicher, S, Drury, J, Hopkins, N and Stott, C (2001) A model of crowd prototypes and crowd leadership. In: Barker, Colin, Johnson, Alan and Lavalette, Michael (eds.) Leadership and social movements. Manchester University Press, pp. 178-195. ISBN 9780719059018

Edited Book

Drury, John and Stott, Clifford, eds. (2013) Crowds in the 21st century: perspectives from contemporary social science.Contemporary Issues in Social Science . Routledge, London. ISBN 9780415635905

Conference or Workshop Item

Saavedra Morales, Patricio Javier and Drury, John (2016) Developing a measurement scale for subjective political openness. In: Annual Scientific Meeting, International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP), 13-16 July 2016, Warsaw, Poland.

Other

Drury, John, Reicher, Steve, Carter, Holly, Cocking, Chris, Amlot, Richard, Rubin, G James and Williams, Richard (2014)Recognising and understanding collective resilience in crowds of survivors. UNISDR, UNISDR website.