Emma Thomas visits St Andrews

Emma Thomas MurdochEmma Thomas is currently on a prestigious Discovery Early Career Research fellowship and based at Murdoch University in Perth, Western Australia.  Her research focuses on the role of identity processes and emotion particularly in collective action. Some of her work involves advantaged group members acting to overcome injustice through campaigns such as “Water for Life” and the global poverty project as well as a broader interest in both violent and non-violent collective action. Emma is currently visiting several centres of collective action research including Groningen in the Netherlands, and St Andrews, Exeter, and Sussex in the UK.