Identity, Self and Social Categorisation
The research interests and activities of Ken Mavor's lab group and colleagues
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.
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
There is a well-established literature showing the higher prevalence of stress and threats to wellbeing in medical students. There is a well-established literature showing the higher prevalence of stress and threats to wellbeing in medical students. In this paper we argue for the importance of researching specific psychological processes that might exacerbate or moderate these … Read more
Lillian submitted her PhD in Social Psychology today. The thesis is titled “Putting the Student in Context: A social and normative model of learning approaches and their outcomes”. It explores the reciprocal relationships between discipline-based social identity and learning approaches (deep/surface) in tertiary education, and effects on academic performance and course evaluation. One paper has … Read more
Kathy submitted her PhD in Clinical Psychology today just in time for a well-deserved holiday break. The thesis is titled “An Investigation of Self-Structure, Social Identity and Norms in Medical Student Wellbeing”. She explores the unique issues for wellbeing facing medical students, what can be learned from applying the broader social psychology literature on self, … Read more
McNeill, K. G., Kerr, A, and Mavor, K. I. (2014) Perspectives on Medical Education Kathy McNeill has had her first, first-author paper published from her PhD work on identity and medical student wellbeing. Congratulations Kathy! We also continue to work with Annelise Kerr, who is a medical student at the ANU, and did her Medical … Read more
Ken had the opportunity to present our “Prevalence to Process” model to the medical education group here at St Andrews. The model integrates the social psychological concepts of self complexity, social identity and normative influence into a model of stress and wellbeing in medical students. The talk led to some interesting discussion amongst the group.
Update: We were pleased to have the participation from nearly 400 medical students, primarily in Australia and New Zealand, but also Europe and Asia. We are currently analysing the data but so far we find support for several key features of our self, identity and wellbeing model featured in our recent Medical Education article. We … Read more