Steve Reicher is a social psychologist and is broadly interested in the issues of group behaviour and the individual-social relationship. More specifically, his recent research can be grouped into three areas. The first is an attempt to develop a model of crowd action that accounts for both social determination and social change. The second concerns the construction of social categories through language and action. The third concerns political rhetoric and mass mobilisation - especially around the issue of national identity.

Currently, he is funded by the Leverhulme Foundation (jointly with Nick Hopkins of Dundee University) looking at the impact of devolution on Scottish identity and social action in Scotland, by the ESRC (jointly with John Drury of Sussex University) looking at social identity processes in panic, and by the Home Office (jointly with Clifford Stott of Liverpool University) looking at crowd=police interactions at European football matches.