Research outputs

• Blogposts
  

  Barr, D. (2020). Understanding collective fear responses to perceived terrorist threats.

  Butler, T. (2022, November 15th). Seoul crowd crush: history suggests authorities may try to blame the victims. The Conversation.

  Drury, J. (2017). A 10-point listicle on journalist accounts of the public responses to events in Oxford Street. 

  Drury, J. (2021). Twitter thread on the 20^th anniversary of 9-11. 

  Drury, J. (2022, November 2nd). Commentary: What caused the Halloween crowd crush in South Korea. Channel News Asia.  

  Drury, J. (2023). Crowd behaviour in response to perceived threats. Das MAGAZIN für Sicherheitskultur 11/23 (pp. 10-14)

  Reicher, S & Drury, J. (2017). Is it right to say people caught in a terror scare 'panic'?

  Cocking, C & Drury, J. (2015). As we remember 7/7, it's time we learned to trust the crowd.

  Drury, J. (2011). Why do ‘stampedes’ happen at crowd events?

• Reports

  Drury, J., Arias, S., Au-Yeung, T., Barr, D., Bell, L., Butler, T., Carter, H., Choudhury, S., Eriks-son, J., Neville, F., Philpot, R., Radburn, M., Reicher, S., Ronchi, E., Stott, C., Telga, M., & Templeton, A. (2023). Public behaviour in response to perceived hostile threats: An evidence base and guide for practitioners and policymakers. University of Sussex. https://dx.doi.org/10.20919/VJVT7448 

• Journal Articles and Other Publications
  

  Au-Yeung, T., Philpot, R., Stott, C., Radburn, M., & Drury, J. (2023). Spontaneous public response to a marauding knife attack on the London Underground: Sociality, coordination and a repertoire of actions evidenced by CCTV footage. British Journal of Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12703

  Barr, D., Drury, J., Bell, L., Devynck, N., Gayretli, C., Lalli, S., & Linfield, H. (2024). Explaining a collective false alarm: Context and cognition in the Oxford Street crowd flight incident. Qeois https://doi.org/10.32388/32WFAB

  Barr, D., Drury, J., Butler, T., Choudhury, S. & Neville, F. (2024). Beyond ‘stampedes’: Towards a new psychology of crowd crush disasters. British Journal of Social Psychology, 63(1), 52-69 https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12666

  Barr, D., Drury, J., & Choudhury, S. (2022). Understanding collective flight responses to (mis)perceived hostile threats: A systematic review of ten years of false alarms in crowded spaces. 25:7, 825-843 Journal of Risk Research. doi:10.1080/13669877.2022.2049622

  Bell, L., Drury, J., & Barr, D. (2023). The Oxford Street false alarm, 24th November 2017: Full triangulated account. University of Sussex.

  Cocking, C., & Templeton, A. (2024). Collective responses to terrorist attacks. In R. Williams, K. Porter, T. Healing, & J. Drury (Eds.), Pandemics, major incidents, and mental health: The psychosocial and mental health aspects of health emergencies. Cambridge University Press / Royal College of Psychiatrists. 

  Templeton, A., Telga, M., & Arias, S. (2021). Understanding crowd responses to emergencies using virtual reality and social psychological methods. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/6yz5c 

  Templeton, A., Telga, M., Ronchi, E., Neville, F., Reicher, S., & Drury, J. (2024). Understanding crowd responses to perceived hostile threats: A multidisciplinary approach. Collective Dynamics, 9, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.17815/CD.2024.157

• Presentation slides

  Telga, M. (2021). Perceived threats and ‘stampedes’: A relational model of collective fear responses. Strand II: Virtual reality experiments. 

  Templeton, A. (2021). Bringing together knowledge from social psychology and pedestrian modelling: moving towards evidence based models of collective behaviour. 

  Templeton, A. (2022). The (mis)use of controversial terminologies in evacuation research. 

• Videos

   

  Drury, J. (2018) Using crowd psychology to boost public safety.

• Our Other Research

  Butler, T. (2015). The 1943 Bethnal Green tube shelter disaster. An oral history. University of East London.

  Effects of Social Identity on Responses to Mass Emergency Evacuation

  University of Sussex Crowds and Identities Research Group Mass Emergencies papers