Professor John Drury is a Professor of Social Psychology and Director of Research and Knowledge Exchange in the School of Psychology at the University of Sussex, UK. His research interests focus on collective behaviour in mass emergencies, riots, and other crowd events. Professor Drury is also a member of the UK Independent Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Independent SAGE), the UK Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Behavioural Science (SPI-B): 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19), and the British Psychological Society’s Community Action and Resilience working group (CAR).
Scientist: John Drury

A scientist’s opinion: Interview with Professor John Drury about changes in social identity during COVID-19
Interview with John Drury, Professor of Social Psychology and Director of Research and Knowledge Exchange in the School of Psychology at the University of Sussex, UK. How does our social identity change during mass emergencies and disasters, and in times of a pandemic such as this one? John Drury: Social identity is a very useful ...