Dr Fergus Neville

Lecturer in Organisation Studies

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 462810

Email

fgn@st-andrews.ac.uk

Biography

I joined the School of Management in January 2019 having previously held postdoctoral positions within the university at the Schools of Medicine (2011-2016) and Psychology (2016-2018). I also completed my PhD (2007-2011), MRes (2006-2007) and BSc (2001-2005) degrees in the School of Psychology, with a year studying at Emory University as a Robert T Jones Memorial Scholar (2005-2006). From 2017 I have been a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Dundee, and since 2018 have been a Guest Professor at the Universität Bayreuth. I am the School of Mangement's Study Abroad Coordinator, Overseas Adviser and I sit on the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion committee.

Teaching

• MN3202 Research Methods 2
• MN4301 Research Project
• MN4244 Behavioural Decision Making
• MN4245 Leadership Development
• MN5499 Dissertation
• MN5406 Consumer Behaviour and Marketing Research
• MN5511 Leadership in Organisations
• MN5554 Marketing and Society

Research areas

My research is broadly focussed on group processes and their pro-social and anti-social consequences. I am particularly interested in social identities, including within organisational contexts. My research covers a range of phenomena which are central to understandings of organisations and their management, including leadership and influence, normative processes, social support and toxic behaviour in groups. Much of my research has been conducted within crowds as I believe they represent a uniquely rich site in which to study processes of organisation, leadership and conflict. The core motivation running through my work is to produce outward-facing research which develops both theory and practical guidance for policy and impact.

PhD supervision

• Meredith Schertzinger

Selected publications

• A social identity model of riot diffusion: from injustice to empowerment in the 2011 London riots

  Drury, J., Stott, C., Ball, R., Reicher, S. D., Neville, F. G., Bell, L., Biddlestone, M., Choudhury, S., Lovell, M. & Ryan, C. E., 31 Mar 2020, In : European Journal of Social Psychology. 50, 3, p. 646-661

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• How crowd violence arises and how it spreads: A critical review of theory and evidence

  Drury, J., Ball, R., Neville, F. G., Reicher, S. D. & Stott, C., 2020, The Handbook of Collective Violence: Current Developments and Understanding. Routledge

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding ? Chapter

• Parental misperceptions of ingroup norms for child discipline

  Ganz, G., Neville, F. G., Kassanjee, R. & Ward, C., 27 May 2020, In : Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology. Early View, 17 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Shared social identity transforms social relations in imaginary crowds

  Neville, F. G., Novelli, D., Drury, J. & Reicher, S. D., 5 Aug 2020, In : Group Processes and Intergroup Relations. Online First

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• A glossary for research on human crowd dynamics

  Consortium for the Physics and Psychology of Human Crowd Dynamics, Adrian, J., Amos, M., Baratchi, M., Beermann, M., Bode, N., Boltes, M., Corbetta, A., Dezecache, G., Drury, J., Fu, Z., Geraerts, R., Gwynne, S., Hofinger, G., Hunt, A., Kanters, T., Kneidl, A., Konya, K., Köster, G., Küpper, M., Michalareas, G., Neville, F., Ntonis, E., Reicher, S., Ronchi, E., Schadschneider, A., Seyfried, A., Shipman, A., Sieben, A., Spearpoint, M., Sullivan, G., Templeton, A., Toschi, F., van der Wal, N., van Schadewijk, F., von Krüchten, C., Wijermans, N., Yücel, Z., Zanlungo, F. & Zuriguel, I., 1 Mar 2019, In : Collective Dynamics. 4, p. 1-13 13 p., A19.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Re-reading the 2011 English riots: ESRC ?Beyond Contagion? interim report

  Drury, J., Ball, R., Neville, F. G., Reicher, S. D. & Stott, C., 28 Feb 2019, The Guardian newspaper.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding ? Chapter

• Talking about weight talk: primary care practitioner knowledge, attitudes and practice

  Laidlaw, A., Napier, C., Neville, F., Collinson, A. & Cecil, J. E., 6 Aug 2019, In : Journal of Communication in Healthcare . Latest Articles

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Who controls the city? A micro-historical case study of the spread of rioting across North London in August 2011

  Ball, R., Stott, C., Drury, J., Neville, F. G., Reicher, S. D. & Choudhury, S., 12 Nov 2019, In : City. Latest articles

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Crowds, social identities and the shaping of everyday social relations

  Neville, F. G. & Reicher, S. D., 10 Oct 2018, Political Psychology: A Social-Psychological Approach. Hewer, C. J. & Lyons, E. (eds.). Wiley

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding ? Chapter

• The evolving normative dimensions of 'riot': toward an elaborated social identity explanation

  Stott, C., Ball, R., Drury, J., Neville, F., Reicher, S., Boardman, A. & Choudhury, S., 21 Sep 2018, In : European Journal of Social Psychology. 48, 6, p. 834-849

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

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