Professor Dominic Abrams FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2013
- Honours
- OBE
- Subjects
- Education, Psychology
- Sections
- Psychology , Education
Summary
Dominic Abrams is founder and director of the Centre for the Study of Group Processes which specialises in the social psychology of groups, intergroup relations, social influence and group decision processes. He is a chartered psychologist, and holds fellowships of the Academy of the Social Sciences, the American Psychological Society, Society for Experimental Social Psychology, Society for Personality and Social Psychology and European Association of Social Psychology, and has distinguished contribution awards and fellowships from the British Psychological Society and the Society for Psychological Study of Social Issues, of which he was also president.
His research in social and developmental psychology focuses particularly on social identity and social inclusion/exclusion. He employs a wide range of methods, from experimental to large scale surveys, He has worked with various charities that tackle prejudice, and is currently a trustee of the Anne Frank Trust. He recently worked with the Equality and Human Rights Commission to create a national benchmark of prejudice, and led the design of the European Social Survey module on attitudes to age. He is a former Vice President (Social Sciences) of the British Academy, co-chaired Academy’s Cohesive Societies programme, was academic lead for the Academy’s reports on the long term societal impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. He is co-chair of the BA/Nuffield Foundation Understanding Communities programme and academic lead for the BA’s Social and Cultural Infrastructure programme.
Current post
Professor of Social Psychology and Director of the Centre for the Study of Group Processes, University of Kent
Past appointments
Centre for the Study of Group Processes Director
1995 -
University of Queensland Visiting Fellow
1995 -
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Visiting Fellow
1993 -
University of Kent Professor of Social Psychology
1993 -
University of Kent Head of Department of Psychology
1992 -
University of Kent Reader in Social Psychology
1992 -
University of Kent Senior Lecturer in Social Psychology
1991 -
University of Dundee Honorary Research Fellow
1991 -
University of Kent at Canterbury Lecturer in Social Psychology, Institute of Social and Applied Psychology
1989 -
University of Melbourne Visiting Lecturer
1986 -
Department of Psychology, University of Dundee 'New blood' Lecturer in Social Cognition
1985 -
University of Bristol Lecturer in Social Psychology
1983 -
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Publications
Multidisciplinary handbook of social exclusion research
Abrams, D., Christian, J.N, & Gordon D. (eds.) - Published in 2007 by Wiley
The Social Psychology of Exclusion and Inclusion
Abrams, D., Hogg, M.A., & Marques, J.M. (eds.) - Published in 2005 by Psychology Press
Social Identity and Social Cognition
Abrams, D., & Hogg, M.A. (eds.) - Published in 1990 by Wiley-Blackwell
Social Identifications: A Social Psychology of Intergroup Relations and Group Processes
Hogg, M.A., & Abrams, D. - Published in 1988 by Routledge
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Richard Bentall FBA
Social determinants and psychological mechanisms leading to symptoms of severe mental illness (hallucinations, delusions); novel psychological treatments for people diagnosed with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and other serious psychiatric disorders
Professor Richard Aslin FBA
Psychological development of infants and young children with a focus on language learning, visual perception and the brain mechanisms that support these fundamental skills.
