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Overview

John Drury is affiliated with the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom and has a research background primarily located within the social sciences, psychology, and health professions. Their work spans multiple interconnected fields including sociology, political science, clinical psychology, general health professions, social psychology, and emergency medical services.

The scientist's research focuses heavily on themes related to disaster management and resilience, COVID-19 and mental health, disaster response and management, social and intergroup psychology, community health and development, psychology of moral and emotional judgment, and public relations and crisis communication.

Frequent publication venues for John Drury's work include:

  • British Journal of Social Psychology
  • International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
  • Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • BJPsych Open

Some of the recent papers authored by or involving John Drury are as follows:

  • Using social and behavioural science to support COVID-19 pandemic response (2020), published in Nature Human Behaviour
  • Pandemic fatigue? How adherence to covid-19 regulations has been misrepresented and why it matters (2021), published in BMJ
  • Collective resilience in times of crisis: Lessons from the literature for socially effective responses to the pandemic (2020), published in British Journal of Social Psychology
  • Collectively coping with coronavirus: Local community identification predicts giving support and lockdown adherence during the COVID-19 pandemic (2021), published in British Journal of Social Psychology
  • What have we learned about COVID-19 volunteering in the UK? A rapid review of the literature (2021), published in BMC Public Health

John Drury has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Evangelos Ntontis
  • Richard Amlôt
  • Atiya Kamal
  • Christopher J. Armitage
  • Stephen Reicher

The co-authorship network and choice of publication venues emphasize John Drury's focus on social psychological aspects of health crises and disaster management. The blend of psychology and social sciences in their work reflects interdisciplinary approaches to understanding collective behavior, resilience, and community responses during emergencies.

Best Publications

  • Using social and behavioural science to support COVID-19 pandemic response.

    Jay J. Van Bavel;Katherine Baicker;Paulo S. Boggio;Valerio Capraro

  • Collective action and psychological change: the emergence of new social identities.

    John Drury;Steve Reicher

  • Explaining enduring empowerment: A comparative study of collective action and psychological outcomes

    John Drury;Steve Reicher

  • Self-image – is it in the bag? A qualitative comparison between “ordinary” and “excessive” consumers

    Helga Dittmar;John Drury

  • Collective Psychological Empowerment as a Model of Social Change: Researching Crowds and Power

    John Drury;Steve Reicher

  • The Intergroup Dynamics of Collective Empowerment: Substantiating the Social Identity Model of Crowd Behavior:

    John Drury;Steve Reicher

  • Everyone for themselves? A comparative study of crowd solidarity among emergency survivors.

    John Drury;Chris Cocking;Steve Reicher

  • The Nature of Collective Resilience: Survivor Reactions to the 2005 London Bombings

    John Drury;Chris Cocking;Steve Reicher

  • The role of social identity processes in mass emergency behaviour: An integrative review

    John Drury

  • "Hooligans' abroad? Inter-group dynamics, social identity and participation in collective "disorder' at the 1998 World Cup Finals.

    Clifford Stott;Paul Hutchison;John Drury

  • Crowds, context and identity: Dynamic categorization processes in the 'poll tax riot'

    Clifford Stott;John Drury

  • Facilitating Collective Psychosocial Resilience in the Public in Emergencies: Twelve Recommendations Based on the Social Identity Approach.

    John Drury;Holly Carter;Chris Cocking;Evangelos Ntontis;Evangelos Ntontis

  • The phenomenology of empowerment in collective action

    John Drury;Christopher Cocking;Joseph Beale;Charlotte Hanson

  • Emergent social identity and observing social support predict social support provided by survivors in a disaster: solidarity in the 2010 Chile earthquake

    John Drury;Rupert Brown;Roberto González;Daniel Miranda

  • INTERMITTENT EPOPROSTENOL (PROSTACYCLIN) INFUSION IN PATIENTS WITH RAYNAUD'S SYNDROME: A Double-blind Controlled Trial

    Jill J. F. Belch;John K. Drury;Hilary Capell;Charles D. Forbes

  • Pandemic fatigue? How adherence to covid-19 regulations has been misrepresented and why it matters.

    Stephen Reicher;John Drury

  • Knowledge-based public order policing: Principles and practice

    Stephen Reicher;Clifford Stott;John Drury;Otto M. J. Adang

  • Cooperation versus competition in a mass emergency evacuation: a new laboratory simulation and a new theoretical model.

    John Drury;Christopher Cocking;Steve Reicher;Andy Burton

  • Social identification moderates the effect of crowd density on safety at the Hajj

    Hani Alnabulsi;John Drury

  • Transforming the boundaries of collective identity: From the 'local' anti-road campaign to 'global' resistance?

    John Drury;Steve Reicher;Clifford Stott

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen Reicher
Stephen Reicher University of St Andrews
Christopher J. Armitage
Christopher J. Armitage University of Manchester
Daryl B. O'Connor
Daryl B. O'Connor University of Leeds
Lucy Yardley
Lucy Yardley University of Bristol
Theresa M. Marteau
Theresa M. Marteau University of Cambridge
Robb Willer
Robb Willer Stanford University
Naomi Ellemers
Naomi Ellemers Utrecht University
Jay J. Van Bavel
Jay J. Van Bavel New York University
David G. Rand
David G. Rand Cornell University
Rupert Brown
Rupert Brown University of Sussex

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