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Professor Rhiannon Turner

School Of Psychology
Professor Rhiannon Turner

Professor Rhiannon Turner

School Of Psychology

Professor Turner’s research focuses on intergroup contact.

Topics of investigation include identifying factors that predict cross-group friendships among school children, examining consequences of these friendships for intergroup relations, and developing and testing prejudice-reduction of interventions based on e-contact (online intergroup communication), extended contact (learning about other people’s contact experiences), and imagined contact (imagining a positive contact experience).

Professor Turner is also interested in predictors and consequences of intergroup romantic relationships, and the influence of nostalgia on intergroup relations.

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  • r.turner@qub.ac.uk
  • +44 (0) 28 9097 3486, +44 (0)28 9097 4352
  • @rhiannon_turner @qubciir

Research Interests

Professor Turner is open to PhD applications on any aspect of intergroup contact or intergroup relations, but particularly on:

  • Promoting confidence in contact among school children
  • Developing interventions to promote positive intergroup behaviour
  • Nostalgia and intergroup relations

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Current Research Opportunities

  • Does online intergroup contact change people’s intergroup behaviour?

Public outreach & key achievements

  • http://www.newyorker.com/science/maria-konnikova/the-six-most-interesting-psychology-papers-of-2015 
  • http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3138496/One-BFF-need-Study-finds-teenagers-benefit-having-one-close-friend-big-gang.html  
  • http://www.bostonnewstime.com/regional/109255-teens-benefit-from-having-one-close-friend-than-many-say-psychologists.html  
  • http://www.sciencenewsline.com/articles/2015062423580007.html  
  • http://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/2015/07/10/nutrition/zMcjPHPovmb071p6AbqHyL/story.html?event=event25     
  • http://ukedchat.com/2015/06/25/supportive-close-ffriendships-help-children-overcome-adversity/ 
  • http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/apr/08/social-prescriptions-prevent-ill-health-reduce-isolation-patients  
  • http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/nov/09/look-back-in-joy-the-power-of-nostalgia  
  • http://www.forbes.com/sites/sebastianbailey/2014/08/14/can-you-overcome-inbuilt-bias/  
  • http://neurocritic.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/contest-to-reduce-implicit-racial-bias.html  
  • http://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2014/09/20/the-bias-fighters/lTZh1WyzG2sG5CmXoh8dRP/story.html\  
  • http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2013/07/19/203306999/How-To-Fight-Racial-Bias-When-Its-Silent-And-Subtle  
  • http://jezebel.com/5988785/if-youre-biased-and-you-know-it-clap-your-hands-and-then-do-something-about-it  
  • http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2013/03/03/overcoming-our-hidden-prejudices/  
  • http://metro.co.uk/2013/08/28/nostalgia-aint-what-it-used-to-be-it-used-to-be-a-disease-3939205/ 

 

 


Research students

PhD area Preparing Catholic and Protestant secondary school students for Shared Education via indirect contact interventions
Name Deborah Kinghan
Years of study 2013-2018
Country UK
   
PhD area Intra and Intergroup Trust in the Lebanon
Name Thia Sagherian-Dickey
Years of study 2014-2018
Country Lebanon
   
PhD area Reducing stigma towards individuals with eating disorders
Name Stephanie McAlinden
Years of study 2015-2018
Country UK
   
PhD area Education in a divided society: The cases of Northern Ireland and Israel
Name Aline Muff
Years of study 2014-2018
Country Germany

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