After George Floyd: Why does civil unrest spread between cities? New blogpost on the Economic and Social Research Council Beyond Contagion research and what the 2011 English riots can tell us about current events blogs.sussex.ac.uk/crowdsidentiti… Thanks to Sanj for web stuff

Come and work with us! TWO post-doc positions based University of St Andrews in the Schools of Management (University of St Andrews School of Management) and Psychology (@st_psy) - see details below. Please share widely!

Latest paper from Beyond Contagion grant 👇

Just published: 'Crowds & Collective Behaviour' our encyclopedia on the latest thinking on crowd psych. Available from your university library (& Researchgate in due course) oxfordre.com/psychology/vie…

#COVID19 demonstrates the importance of the examples set by ingroup members. When they wear 😷 and keep their distance, it reminds us that we should too John Drury of Sussex Psychology on the significance of his new research with University of St Andrews UCL sussex.ac.uk/news/all?id=53…

10 years since the #riots 5/N How did the Tottenham riot evolve to take in new targets, new locations? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.100…

A decade ago this week, fires raged across the country. In this week's issue, we talk to social psychologist John Drury, whose latest research finds that police expectations fuelled riots in Salford. Available from your local vendor or online: orlo.uk/AvOqd

New thread on the 10th anniversary of the 2011 riots explaining what took place and the psychological processes of spread 👇

10 years since the #riots Beyond Contagion 10/N For some (e.g. in Croydon), rioting in other cities was empowering; it showed the vulnerability of a common enemy (the police). In all locations, meta-perception mediated links between initial perceptions &collective action.

'Compared to those places that didn’t see rioting, those London boroughs that saw rioting had significantly more deprivation, many more police ‘stop and searches’, and more negative public attitudes to the police', writes John Drury leftfootforward.org/2021/08/the-20…

In sum, pre-emptive mobilization by police based on concerns about rioting in their local area operated as self-fulfilling prophesy by drawing & antagonizing a crowd. Economic and Social Research Council Beyond Contagion Pre-print here - please share: osf.io/preprints/soca…

10 years since the English riots Waves of riots tell us about deep societal problems & widespread alienation. This is why we have to listen to them & engage with them with a new discourse. Read our Economic and Social Research Council Beyond Contagion report sussex.ac.uk/webteam/gatewa…

New paper from the project! Pre-print available below.

Three short (20ish mins) podcasts explaining our work on the Beyond Contagion project featuring John Drury Clifford Stott @ReicherStephen Roger Ball and myself. Discusses the 2011 riots and how collective violence spreads. Please listen and share! bit.ly/32cMoeD

Our Beyond Contagion podcast is now available on: Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/4bY9DpJQ1… Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/bey… Economic and Social Research Council John Drury Roger Ball Fergus Neville Clifford Stott @selectCHhere @ReicherStephen Sussex Psychology University of St Andrews School of Management @st_psy

Steve Reicher from the Beyond Contagion project explains the social processes underpinning the protests and riots in China in The Guardian: "What we have witnessed is not mindless copycatting. It is a process of empowered identification". theguardian.com/commentisfree/…