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Dr Fergus Neville

Senior Lecturer

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 2810

Email

fgn@st-andrews.ac.uk

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Biography

I am the Director of Postgraduate Research for the University of ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Business School.

I joined the School in January 2019 having previously held postdoctoral positions at the university at the Schools of Medicine (2011-2016) and Psychology (2016-2018). I 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 2017-2020 I was a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Dundee, and from 2018-2020 was a Guest Professor at the Universität Bayreuth.

Teaching

• MN2901 Becoming an Effective Manager
• MN3202 Research Methods II
• MN4100 Contemporary Issues in Management
• MN5511 Leadership in Organisations
• MN5499 Dissertation

Research areas

Please note that I am not currently recruiting new PhD students as I am at capacity for supervision.

My research is 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

• CalumÌýCook
• ArchwinÌýIntharasombat
• Mohammad AliÌýSiyadat
• CharlotteÌýTasker

Selected publications

• Open access
  Drury, J., Ball, R., Cesar Alejandre, J., Hart, N., Saunders, K. R. K., Acar, Y. G., Bauld, L., Cox, D., Cox, S., Hoerst, C., Hope, M., Michie, S., Neville, F., Ntontis, E., Radburn, M., Reicher, S., Stott, C., Templeton, A., Vestergren, S. & Wild, R., 23 Feb 2026, In: Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology. 36, 2, e70239.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access
  Adrian, J., Amos, M., Appert-Rolland, C., Baratchi, M., Bode, N., Boltes, M., Chatagnon, T., Chraibi, M., Corbetta, A., Cuesta, A., Dezecache, G., Drury, J., Echeverría-Huarte, I., Feldmann, S., Feliciani, C., Filippidis, L., Fu, Z.-J., Geoerg, P., Geraerts, R. & Haddad, R. & 45 others, Haghani, M., Hofinger, G., Hopkins, N., Hrabák, P., Hunt, A., Jia, X., Kinateder, M., Kneidl, A., Konya, K., Köster, G., Künzer, L., Küpper, M., Lawrence, P., Lovreglio, R., Ma, J., Neville, F., Nicolas, A., Nishinari, K., Ntontis, E., Olivier, A.-H., Parisi, D., Pettré, J., Postmes, T., Ramachandra rao, K., Ronchi, E., Schadschneider, A., Schumann, J., Seriani, S., Seyfried, A., Sieben, A., Spearpoint, M., Sullivan, G. B., Templeton, A., Thompson, P., Tomoeda, A., Tordeux, A., Totzeck, C., Üsten, E., Van der wal, N., Verma, A., Wijermans, N., Yücel, Z., Zanlungo, F., Zhang, J. & Zuriguel, I., 19 May 2025, In: Collective Dynamics. 10, p. 1-32

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access
  Neville, F., 17 Dec 2025, New York: United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT). 57 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Other report

• Open access
  Atkinson, M., Neville, F., Ntontis, E. & Reicher, S., 15 Jun 2025, In: International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. 124, 105556.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Hoerst, C., Reicher, S., Drury, J., Haslam, S. A., Neville, F., Ntontis, E. & Vestergren, S., 26 Sept 2025, Social psychology of leadership and crowds: global perspectives. Uysal, M. S., Vestergren, S. & Acar, Y. G. (eds.). Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, p. 152-170 19 p.

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

• Open access
  Barr, D., Drury, J., Butler, T., Choudhury, S. & Neville, F. G., 24 Jan 2024, In: British Journal of Social Psychology. 63, 1, p. 52-69 18 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access
  Neville, F. G., Haslam, S. A., Homan, M., Reicher, S. D. & Steffens, N., 18 Nov 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: European Journal of Social Psychology. Early View, 19 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access
  Kaya, O., Acar, Y. G., Agar, C. C. & Neville, F. G., 21 Jul 2024, In: Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology. 34, 4, 16 p., e2843.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access
  Atkinson, M., Neville, F. G., Ntontis, E. & Reicher, S. D., 24 Jan 2024, In: Risk Analysis. 44, 2, p. 322-332 11 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access
  Templeton, A., Telga, M., Ronchi, E., Neville, F. G., Reicher, S. D. & Drury, J., 5 Jun 2024, In: Collective Dynamics. 9, 10 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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