Social Psychology research group

About us

The Social Psychology Research Group, (SPRG) at Kingston Universitybrings together researchers who have a shared focus on social and political issues. Members of the group have a reputation for delivering high quality, internationally recognised research and publications, much of it being undertaken with colleagues at other national and international institutions.

We understand human behaviour and agency as situated within particular socio-political, historical, and cultural contexts, and apply this understanding to overtly ‘political' topics, including national identity, collective memory, peace and conflict, sexism, and citizenship, as well as to issues which might be less readily acknowledged as ‘political', including visual impairment, medicinal cannabis, and facial disfigurement. We adopt a pragmatic and flexible approach to methodology, utilising various methods and analyses depending on the topic and questions under investigation.

We hold frequent research group meetings, and all are welcome to join. Please contact the research group leader below if you would like more details.

Staff

PhD students

Representative publications

Cohrs, J. C., & O'Dwyer, E. (2018). ‘. In P. L. Hammack (ed.), The Oxford handbook of Social Psychology and social justice (pp. 331-350). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Colliver, B., Coyle, A., & Silvestri, M. (2019). '. In K. Lumsden & E. Harmer (eds) Online Othering: Exploring violence and discrimination on the web. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Fernandez, E. F., & Coyle, A. (in press). Political Psychology.
Hanson, K. & O'Dwyer, E. (2019) . Political Psychology, 40(4), 777-795.
Hewer, C. J. (2018). . In C. J. Hewer & E. Lyons (eds), Political psychology: A social psychological approach (pp. 207-230). Chichester: Wiley.
Hewer, C. J., & Lyons, E. (2018). . In C. J. Hewer & E. Lyons (eds), Political psychology: A social psychological approach (pp. 93-113). Chichester: Wiley.
Hewer, C. J., & Lyons, E. (eds) (2018). .
Kajtazi-Testa, L. & Hewer, C.J. (2018). Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 23(2), pp. 333-345.
Jaspal, R., & Coyle, A. (2014). Threat, victimhood, and peace: Debating the 2011 Palestinian UN state membership bid. Digest of Middle East Studies, 23(1), 190-214. DOI: 10.1111/dome.12041
Lemonaki, E. & Leman, P.J. (2017) The Psychologist, 30, pp. 35-38.
Lemonaki, E., Manstead, A.S.R. & Maio, G.R. (2015) . British Journal of Social Psychology, 54(3), pp. 483-499.
Manitsa, I., Barlow-Brown, F. & Lyons, E. (2019). . British Journal of Visual Impairment, (Epub Ahead of Print).
O'Dwyer, E. & Coymak, A.(2019) . Political Psychology (Epub. Ahead of Print).
O'Dwyer, E., Lyons, E., & Cohrs, J. C. (2016). . Political Psychology, 37(2), 165-181.
Nikcevic, A.V., Dodd, Z., Prior, J., O'Gorman, N., Poon, L.C. & Nicolaides, K.H. (2019) Prenatal Diagnosis (Epub Ahead of Print.
Prior, J., & Khadaroo, A. (2015). ‘I sort of balance it out': Living with facial acne in emerging adulthood. Journal of Health Psychology, 20(9), 1154-1165.
Roberts, R., Halilovic, M., Becirevic, E. & Hewer, C. J. (2015). . Global Discourse: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Current Affairs and Applied Contemporary Thought, 5(4), 579-599.
Rotella, A., Sparks, A. M., & Barclay, P. (2020) , 43, e85

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