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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 3d

Our survey of over 2000 attendees, from both UK and USA, and across a wide variety of genres and events (both gigs and festivals) found this:

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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 4d

Disruptive crowd behaviour back in the news again!
This time it's journalists saying it's a thing.
But crowd safety professionals say 'The overwhelming majority of events take place safely & securely, with no disruption, but those stories rarely make the news.”

www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

Swearing, booing and spitting: is crowd behaviour out of control?

There was dismay after Rory McIlroy’s wife was hit by a beer at the Ryder Cup. But have crowds always been badly behaved, or is antisocial behaviour getting worse?

www.theguardian.com

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Harry Lewis @harrymlewis.bsky.social · 7d

Coming soon to a Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology near you...

John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 7d

'Social cure and savouring: Attending live music events is associated with wellbeing and behaviour changes'
From @harrymlewis.bsky.social @hannaeldarwish.bsky.social & team
A revised version of this paper now accepted for publication!

osf.io/preprints/ps...

OSF

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · Aug 10

Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all:

“If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.”

Israel just killed him.

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Heather Ferguson @drheatherferg.bsky.social · Jul 29

>40 students currently trapped in Gaza with full scholarships to UK Universities are asking for a safe route to come and study

Petition for UK academics asking govt to facilitate a biometric visa deferral and open a route of safe passage

Sign & share ⏬️

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Open letter from UK university staff: Request for biometric deferral and safe evacuation of incoming Palestinian students and scholars from Gaza to UK Universities

More than 40 students currently trapped in Gaza with full scholarships to UK Universities are asking for a safe route to come and study. We, the academic community hoping to welcome these scholars, ca...

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David Clarke @daclarkecruz.bsky.social · May 26

New from Drury & Vestergren. The chapter synthesises decades of research on how participation in collective action transforms people, challenges the field’s focus on predictors, and calls for methods to trace these transformations. It also highlights prefiguration as a key future research direction.

John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · May 26

'Reading historical examples of person change in collective action, one is struck by the profound sense of revelation, & the significant downstream consequences, in terms of future activities, relationships, &life choices.'

With @swedishprotests.bsky.social

www.researchgate.net/publication/...

(PDF) Collective action and person change

PDF | This chapter describes the research evidence and theory for the topic of person change arising in and through participation in collective action.... | Find, read and cite all the research you ne...

www.researchgate.net

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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · May 28

New wall art at @sussex.ac.uk Psychology is from our crowd safety & experience project, with @harrymlewis.bsky.social @sanjeedah.bsky.social @lewisdoyle.bsky.social

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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · May 18

'Understanding and Enhancing Felt Safety at Live Music Events through Group Psychology'
by @harrymlewis.bsky.social
Now on Blogspot

drury-sussex-the-crowd.blogspot.com/2025/05/unde...

Understanding and Enhancing Felt Safety at Live Music Events through Group Psychology

Safety at live music events has become an increasing concern in recent years, spurred by high-profile incidents that have attracted global...

drury-sussex-the-crowd.blogspot.com

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Harry Lewis @harrymlewis.bsky.social · May 3

so in my early dissemination of this work I somehow managed to find and use an image with a typo.... great 😂.

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Harry Lewis @harrymlewis.bsky.social · Apr 25

The outstanding team: @hannaeldarwish.bsky.social @lewisdoyle.bsky.social @sanjeedah.bsky.social @freyamills.bsky.social, Danielle Evans, Fi Green & Jane Wen

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Harry Lewis @harrymlewis.bsky.social · Apr 25

In case you missed them, we - myself, @profjohndrury.bsky.social and team - have two new preprints and a blog post exploring the psychology of crowds at gigs/festivals:

Disruption: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Wellbeing: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Safety: tinyurl.com/4kcs7x2p

All feedback very welcome!

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Harry Lewis @harrymlewis.bsky.social · Apr 24

New pre-print alert....

John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · Apr 24

'Social cure and savouring: Attending live music events is associated with wellbeing and behaviour changes'

osf.io/preprints/ps...

New from @harrymlewis.bsky.social @hannaeldarwish.bsky.social & team

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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · Apr 15

New blogpost, led by @harrymlewis.bsky.social : Understanding and Enhancing Felt Safety at Live Music Events through Group Psychology

blogs.sussex.ac.uk/crowdsidenti...

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Harry Lewis @harrymlewis.bsky.social · Apr 15

New blogpost looking at the psychology of felt safety at live music events: tinyurl.com/4kcs7x2p. Draws on interview, ethnographic and survey data. With @profjohndrury.bsky.social @hannaeldarwish.bsky.social Danielle Evans, Fiona Green, @sanjeedah.bsky.social and @lewisdoyle.bsky.social.

Side by side images of a crowd at a music festival. The first image shows a small number of people signaling to a medic. The second image shows a larger number of people in the crowd raising their hands to amplify the medic's signal to other medical personnel at the front of the stage.

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Harry Lewis @harrymlewis.bsky.social · Mar 17

This is great - well done Freya!

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Harry Lewis @harrymlewis.bsky.social · Feb 26

Fantastic research!

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Harry Lewis @harrymlewis.bsky.social · Feb 4

Yeah, a few of our interview p's mentioned alcohol as a contributing factor to disruptive behaviour. But I also think (not something we examined) that more alcohol is consumed where people feel a sense of normative uncertainty, so it may be a cause and symptom (at music gigs, at least)

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Harry Lewis @harrymlewis.bsky.social · Feb 3

Our pre-print is now available on our research into experiences of disruptive behaviour at live music events. Available here: osf.io/preprints/ps... @profjohndrury.bsky.social @lewisdoyle.bsky.social @sanjeedah.bsky.social @freyamills.bsky.social Hanna Eldarwish, Danielle Evans, Fi Green & Jane Wen

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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · Feb 3

'Understanding the "new" disruptive behaviour at live music events: The role of group norms'
@harrymlewis.bsky.social

We used multiple methodologies to understand audiences' experiences of disruptive behaviour, underlying processes, and possible solutions.

Please share.

osf.io/preprints/ps...

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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · Jan 20

At this month's Crowds & Identities @crowdsidentities.bsky.social seminar, expertly convened by @freyamills.bsky.social, Rhea Haddad presents her new work with @drannetempleton.bsky.social on how collective sound-making at live sports events expressed shared identity.

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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · Dec 18

'Why crowd behaviour matters - for psychology and society'

Recording of my Professorial Lecture. Please share.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pBZ...

Why crowd behaviour matters - for psychology and society

YouTube video by Crowds & Identities

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Ana Leal @alleal.bsky.social · Dec 17

Does participating in collective action moralize one's attitudes over time, and if so, how?

Happy to share that our paper is now out in JPSP! With Martijn van Zomeren, Roberto González, Ernestine Gordijn, Pia Carozzi, Michal Reifen Tagar, Belén Álvarez, Cristián Frigolett, and Eran Halperin. (1/9)

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Harry Lewis @harrymlewis.bsky.social · Dec 17

This looks very interesting, & relevant to a paper I'm currently working on - I'll take a good look through! In the meantime, if you're interested and open to shameless self promo - here's a related paper myself and V. Vignoles published earlier this year: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Construction and contestation of climate activist identities in the comments section of a large UK‐based online newspaper

Success of global attempts to limit climate change depends partly upon public support for demands of climate activist groups. We examined the role of social representation and identity processes in s...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Harry Lewis @harrymlewis.bsky.social · Dec 17

Indeed - thanks John!

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Harry Lewis @harrymlewis.bsky.social · Dec 12

Cause to deactivate that X account that's hanging around unused: www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

www.independent.co.uk