What is the Groups Network?

FLF, founder and co-chair. Associate Professor in Psychology, University of Greenwich; Research Affiliate, University of Oxford.

Cognitive anthropologist specialising in group bonding, ritual, and conflict. Her research spans four continents and includes football fans, ravers, and most recently, people in prison. She leads a long-term project into the role football interventions may play in reducing reoffending with HMPPS and the Twinning Project.

FLF, co-chair. Senior Lecturer in Social Psychology, University of Edinburgh.

A social psychologist focusing on group processes in emergency response and at large events. Her research group, Identities and Collective Behaviour, focuses on understanding how and why behaviour occurs in emergencies (e.g., mass incidents) and large events (e.g., music festivals). Her current primarily research explores how communication strategies used by first responders influence public response.

FLF, co-chair Research Fellow based at MOLA, London.

Archaeologist with current research focus on providing meaningful social value from development-led archaeology. Sadie's professional career has largely taken place in the City of London, as the lead archaeologist on major excavations within the Roman and Medieval city. This has formed the basis for her FLF research which aims to widen participation in archaeology through innovation in project design.

FLF, Diversity and Inclusion Rep. Principal Investigator of Project dldl/ድልድል, SOAS University of London; Co-founder and Co-Editor of Decolonial Subversions

Gender, Religion and Development Studies specialist with decade-long experience in developing cosmology-sensitive and people-centred approaches for analysing and addressing gender-related issues and domestic violence in religious communities of Africa and religious migrant and diaspora communities in Europe. She is an active advocate of the de-westernisation and diversification of knowledge production, co-editing the radically subversive publishing platform Decolonial Subversions.

FLF, Director of the Prosperity and Peace Pathways Project; Senior Lecturer in Climate Change, State Fragility and Conflict at the University of Greenwich; Editorial board member of Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems; Member of the UKRI Talent Peer Review College

Interdisciplinary environmental social scientist specialising in climate security and development. His current research explores ways to deliver meaningful pathways towards prosperity and peace in divided societies. He leads local citizen labs in Chad, Niger and Nigeria, and the Lake Chad Conflict and Environment Observatory.

FLF. Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick.

His Communicative Mind research group tries to answer two questions: (1) Why are humans the only species to use language? and (2) How has the acquisition (and cultural evolution) of language changed human thinking?

Before moving to Warwick in 2020, Richard was a Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter at the Berlin School of Mind and Brain, and in the Department of Philosophy at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (2013-2019). Between 2009-2013 he was a post-doctoral researcher in Michael Tomasello's Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology, at the MPI-EVA in Leipzig. He received a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Warwick in 2010, and an MA in Philosophy and Cultural Analysis from the Universiteit van Amsterdam in 2004.

Postdoctoral researcher on Dr Newson’s FLF project at the Universities of Kent and Greenwich.

Linus is a social psychologist interested in mechanisms that increase or decrease social cohesion among different types of groups.

Research Associate in Dr Sadie Watson's FLF project at MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology).

Guillermo has an MSc in Psychological and Psychiatric Anthropology, and a PhD in Archaeology. His research at MOLA focuses on the ethnographic study of Archaeology and its relationships with Construction. Guillermo is also interested in the study of prehistoric personhood and cognition, and in how emotions and gender affect archaeological fieldwork.

PhD Student, University of Edinburgh. Supervised by Dr Anne Templeton.

Sayaka is a PhD researcher at the University of Edinburgh, researching effective communication approaches in emergency situations such as relationships between emergency responders / government agencies and the public.

Project: Intergroup dynamics between first responders and citizens in evacuations’

The project is funded by the Japanese Government Student Exchange Support Programme.

Post-doctoral researcher on Dr Romina Istratii’s FLF project, Project dldl/ድልድል, in the School of History, Religions and Philosophies at SOAS University of London.

Linda is a sociologist with expertise on intersectionality analysis, gender, religion, culture, and empowerment of women. She has developed and implemented research projects aimed at addressing domestic abuse within the religious-cultural African context. She has taught gender studies and family sociology at several South African Universities.

Postdoctoral researcher in Dr Anne Templeton's FLF project at the University of Edinburgh.

With a background in engineering mathematics, he has five years of expertise in modelling crowd behaviour. His research primarily focuses on investigating the influence of different attributes on individual behaviour through carefully designed virtual reality experiments. Additionally, he explores the emergence of crowd dynamics from individual interactions by employing mathematical and computational models. Currently, his research is concentrated on analysing how communication strategies employed by first responders impact individual cognition, emotion, relationships, and subsequently, crowd behaviour during evacuations.

Research Fellow in Philosophy on Richard Moore's FLF project at the University of Warwick

Kat has a master's degree in both Psychology and philosophy, and a PhD in Psychology. Her interdisciplinary research focuses on perspective taking – that is the question how we come to understand others psychological states such as desires and beliefs. Her works spans theoretical, developmental and comparative methods. As a fellow at the University of Warwick in the Communicative Mind Lab she works on the relationship between perspective taking abilities, communication and social coordination.

Research Fellow in Philosophy on Richard Moore's FLF project at the University of Warwick

Giulia is a philosopher working on animal communication and language evolution. Her research focuses on theories of communication, semantics and pragmatics in non-human animals, and the evolution of syntax. She is post-doc on the project ‘The Communicative Mind’ at the University of Warwick.

Research Assistant on Dr Martha Newson’s FLF project at the Universities of Oxford and Greenwich. PhD Student, University of Edinburgh.

Ellen has an MPhil in Medical Anthropology and is undertaking a PhD in Advanced Care at the University of Edinburgh. Her research at Edinburgh uses mixed methods to better understand and ultimately predict how neighbourhood characteristics influence health outcomes and associated care demands in later life. She also has research interests in the impact of exposure to Covid-19 related mortality on risk perception and health behaviours, with a particular focus on ‘pandemic fatigue’.

Lecturer, University of Exeter Business School. Honorary Research Associate on Dr Angela Aristidou’s FLF project, University College London (UCL) School of Management

Lei holds a PhD in Organisations and Innovation. She is dedicated to exploring how people can connect and collaborate to create a better world. Currently, Lei is leading FLF projects that examine partnerships between the NHS and third-sector organisations (e.g., charities and social enterprises). She is also investigating collaborative efforts among third-sector organisations to increase their social impact.

Groups Network Administrative Assistant. Masters by Research student at the University of Kent.

Mollie is a MSc-R student studying the social psychological mechanisms underlying public attitudes towards criminal punishment. She is set to begin a PhD in September at the University of Southampton investigating the impact of public punitiveness on public policy and political behaviour, focusing on how these relationships have contributed to the rise of mass incarceration in England and Wales.