This is an important Govt. initiative, with simple steps you can take to prepare for a future emergency. Several of our team were involved, giving advice, doing background research and supporting development. Take 5mins for a look. prepare.campaign.gov.uk

🚨 Event TOMORROW - Gender and Race in Academia 🚨 Pat O’Connor (Limerick) and Natalie Wall (King’s) present their new books, followed by an open panel on experiences of gender and race when working at the university. 🗓️ Thu 27 June, 5-7pm, the Exchange, Bush House.

Do you work for a regional or local public health authority in England? Does your role include communicating with local communities during infectious disease outbreaks? If so please take our short online survey. For more info: tinyurl.com/5h22c38v

Our new paper exploring the relationship between shared identity and interoperability using discussion-based exercises is published🚨 Available open access here: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… Richard Amlôt John Drury Alex Haslam & Holly Carter

BBC News - London must prepare for floods and heatwaves - report bbc.com/news/articles/…

📰News story!📰A new review by Zelenka Martin et al. has identified a lack of approaches to support the use & evaluation of behavioural science in intervention & guidance development during emergency responses. More➡️bit.ly/3zU7YFn

This short online survey is still open! If you are working in this space and could spare a few minutes, please help us to develop guidance to support more equitable health outcomes during future communicable disease outbreaks. For info & survey link: lnkd.in/emNr3RvG

Grateful as I am for speed and reach of online publication, still get a real buzz out of hard copy 🙂🥳

Just accepted at EASP EJSP: Explaining a Collective False Alarm: Context and Cognition in the 2017 Oxford Street Crowd Flight Incident Dermot Barr Linda Bell cagla qeios.com/read/32WFAB

🚨JUST ACCEPTED🚨 Was rejection of COVID-19 policies & recommendations driven by ideological considerations or broad mistrust in the system? In a forthcoming paper in EJPR, Louise Halberg Nielsen & I show that polarized opinions about COVID-19 was as much - or more - about trust than