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Dr Chris Cocking

Senior Lecturer

contact:
Nursing and Midwifery
Falmer
Brighton
BN1 9PH

Telephone: +44 (0)1273 644510

Email: C.Cocking@brighton.ac.uk

Home page: http://cocking.socialpsychology.org

Weblog: http://dontpaniccorrectingmythsaboutthecrowd.blogspot.com

Teaching

  • Mental health, especially CAMHS
  • Qualitative research
  • Supervision of postgraduate students
  • Psychology, especially social psychology and collective action
  • Ethical aspects of research and practice

Profile

Chris has had links with the University of Brighton since 2000, when he did his nurse training at the School of Nursing. He has a background in research and teaching social psychology, and as an RMN working in CAMHS in-patient environments. His research interests include crowd behaviour, collective action, mass emergencies, collective resilience, post-trauma psycho-social support, and use of Virtual Reality technology in teaching and research. He has applied his research findings to mass emergency planning, and how it can help first responders such as the ambulance and fire and rescue service facilitate mass evacuations. He has also worked in the crowd management sector, advising on crowd safety issues at large events in London and the South East, and contributed to the Greater London Assembly report into the response to 7/7/2005 London bombings.

Publications

Cocking, C (In Press for Nov 2012) Collective resilience versus collective vulnerability after disasters & a Social Psychological perspective. In R. Arora (ed.) Disaster Management: A Medical Perspective.

Cocking C. (In Submission) Crowd flight during collective disorder- a momentary lapse of reason? Manuscript submitted to the British Journal of Social Psychology, Jan 2012

Cocking, C. and Drury, J. (in preparation) Don't 'panic'!: Discourse and experience in survivors' accounts of mass emergencies. Manuscript in preparation

Number of items: 8.

COCKING, CHRISTOPHER (2013) Crowd flight in response to police dispersal techniques: a momentary lapse of reason? Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling . ISSN 1544-4759

Cocking, Chris (2011) Using VR technology in teaching and learning with 1st year psychology undergraduates Investigations, 7 (1). pp. 113-125.

Cocking, Chris, Drury, John and Reicher, Steve (2009) Everyone for themselves? A comparative study of crowd solidarity among emergency survivors British Journal of Social Psychology, 48 (3). pp. 487-506. ISSN 0144-6665

Drury, John, COCKING, CHRISTOPHER, Reicher, Steve, Burton, Andy, Schofield, Damian, Hardwick, Andrew, Graham, Danielle and Langston, Paul (2009) Cooperation versus competition in a mass emergency evacuation: a new laboratory simulation and a new theoretical model Behavior Research Methods, 41 (3). ISSN 1554-351X

COCKING, CHRISTOPHER (2009) Fostering deep learning through workshops:a re-design of a first-year psychology module Investigations, 5 (2).

Cocking, Chris, Drury, John and Reicher, S (2009) The nature of collective "resilience": survivor reactions to the July 7th (2005) London bombings International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters, 27 (1). pp. 66-95. ISSN 0280-7270

Cocking, Chris, Drury, J and Reicher, S (2009) The psychology of crowd behaviour in fires: implications for the emergency services Irish Journal of Psychology, 30 (1). pp. 59-72. ISSN 0303-3910

COCKING, CHRISTOPHER and Drury, John (2008) The mass psychology of disasters and emergency evacuations: a research report and implications for the Fire and Rescue Service Fire Safety, Technology and Management, 10 (2). ISSN 1477-1209

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Cocking, C. (2009). Fostering Deep Learning through workshops: a re-design of a first-year Psychology Module . Investigations, 5 (2) 1-12.

Drury, J., Cocking, C., Reicher, S., Burton, A., Schofield, D., Hardwick, A., Graham, D., & Langston, P. (2009). Co-operation versus competition in a mass emergency evacuation: A new laboratory simulation and a new theoretical model. Behavior Research Methods, 41 (3), 957-970.

Cocking, C. and Drury, J. (2008) The mass psychology of disasters and emergency evacuations: A research report and implications for the Fire and Rescue Service. Fire Safety, Technology and Management, 10 (2) 13-19.

Recent conference papers

Cocking, C., Stott, C, and Shaw, A. (2011). The students are revolting! The importance of historical intergroup dynamics for understanding conflict during the tuition fees protests of 2010. BPS Social Psychology Section Annual Conference, University of Cambridge, UK.

Cocking, C, and Drury, J, (2011) Using VR simulation to model psychological processes during mass evacuations. RUSI Virtual Emergencies Conference, Royal United Services Institute, London 8/4/2011.

Cocking, C., Drury, J., Reicher, S. and Stott, C. (2010) Crowd behaviour during collective disorder- a momentary lapse of reason? BPS Social Psychology Section Annual Conference, University of Winchester, UK.