THE ROLE OF GROUP PSYCHOLOGY IN A CROWD CRUSH DISASTER : BEYOND ‘STAMPEDES’ AUTHORS Dermot Barr John Drury Toby Butler Sanjeedah Choudhury Fergus Gilmour Neville Reference Abstract—– The Bethnal Green…

Traumatic Asphyxial Deaths Due to an Uncontrolled Crowd James R. Gill, MD, and Kristen Landi, MD Abstract Nine people died of traumatic asphyxia due to an uncontrolled crowd at a…

Extreme Value Analysis Extreme Value Analysis: its potential use in crowd safety planning Mick Upton Abstract This paper considers Extreme Value Analysis methodology as a first step in the process…

Compression asphyxia and other clinicopathological findings from the Hillsborough Stadium disaster Jerry P Nolan , Jasmeet Soar, Nathaniel Cary, Nigel Cooper, Jack Crane, Ashley Fegan-Earl, William Lawler, Philip Lumb, Guy…

Understanding collective flight responses to (mis)perceived hostile threats in Britain 2010-2019: a systematic review of ten years of false alarms in crowded spaces Dermot Barr, John Drury & Sanjeedah Choudhury…

Re-opening live events and large venues after Covid-19 ‘lockdown’: Behavioural risks and their mitigations Safety Science JohnDrury. M. BrookeRogers. Theresa M.Marteau, LucyYardley. StephenReicher, CliffordStott, Read More Safety Science Abstract This…

Understanding collective fear responses to perceived terrorist threats Crowds and Identities: John Drury’s Research Group By Dermot Barr The UK national threat level was raised to ‘Severe’, the second highest…

The “near miss” collection We are have started a new page on the website. Looking at the near miss. CLICK HERE We have started putting together a collection on what…

US capitol insurrection 06.01.2021 On the 6th January 2021, what started as a political rally, became what some call a riot, others insurrection and those that took part revolution.  We…

Course Material Behavioural Awareness DOWNLOAD CONTENT We put together a PowerPoint based presentation a few years back. This focuses on behavioural awareness at events in relation to terrorism. This is…