Identity, Self and Social Categorisation
The research interests and activities of Ken Mavor's lab group and colleagues
Kenneth Mavor 
Group interaction as the crucible of social identity formation : a glimpse at the foundations of social identities for collective action The collaboration with Emma Thomas and Craig McGarty has led to another exploration of models of social identity and collective action, accepted for publication in Group Processes and Intergoup Relations. Abstract Many of the … Read more
The lab was delighted to host Elena Strobl to work in the lab for 2 weeks over the summer. Elena is completing her school studies in Italy but came to St Andrews to get some experience in working in a Psychology lab. Elena wrote the following of her time in the lab. This summer I … Read more
“…some stress is identity-potent: it has a special meaning in the context of a professional identity.” Ken and Kathy had the opportunity to write a commentary piece for Medical Education entitled “Moving toward a complex systems view in medical student wellbeing research”. We took the opportunity to further advance the view that we need to … Read more
Congratulations to Lillian on completing her corrections and submitting the final thesis for the award of her PhD! Lillian’s thesis is entitled “Putting the Student in Context: A social and normative model of learning approaches and their outcomes”. Lillian has one paper already published from her PhD: Smyth L., Mavor, K. I., Platow, M.J., Grace, D. … Read more
Congratulations to Kathy on completing her corrections and submitting the final thesis for the award of her PhD! Kathy’s thesis was entitled “An Investigation of Self-Structure, Social Identity and Norms in Medical Student Wellbeing” and several papers have already come out of this line of work. Kathy’s PhD is part of our “Prevalence to Process” … Read more
Lillian Smyth visited the lab on her way home from the European Association of Social Psychology conference in Amsterdam. Lillian gave a talk on her PhD work on Discipline-based student identities, peer norms and approaches to learning. While in St Andrews, Lillian also got to se some of the local sights including a trip to … Read more
The Seminar series run by the College of Medicine Dentistry and Nursing in Dundee is a wonderful opportunity to explore the implications of the self and identity process model of medical student well-being.
The lab hosted a visit from Stephen LaMacchia from the University of Queensland. Stephen is in the final year of his PhD studies at UQ working with Winnifred Louis and Matthew Hornsey. Stephen is a co-author on a paper with Ken and Winnifred on Social Justice in Psychology. Dealing with That Lot: Assorted Insights Regarding … Read more
We were delighted to have Alexander (Zan) Saeri visiting the social psychology group from the University of Queensland. Zan is in the final year of his PhD working with Aarti Iyer and Winnifred Louis. Alexander gave a talk to the group entitled “Collective action: outsiders, ideology, and contexts”.
Ken had the terrific opportunity to present a keynote address entitled “Encapsulating the things that matter: Exploring identities for learning, social action and well-being” at the GRASP conference in Sweden on May 23rd (9th Nordic conference in group- and social psychology). The GRASP conference attracts an interesting mix of researchers from across Scandinavia who are … Read more