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Clifford Stevenson

Professor

School of Social Sciences

Staff Group(s)
Psychology

Role

Clifford is a Professor of Social Psychology at NTU and a a member of the Groups, Identities and Health research group.

He is also Distinguished Professor at Tohoku University where he is Scientific Director of the International Centre for Community-based Loneliness Prevention (ICCLP).

He supervises students at MSc and undergraduate levels and currently supervises PhD research on the topics of loneliness reduction, social prescribing, suicide prevention and community disaster resilience. He welcomes inquiries about pursuing PhD research in the areas of social identity and loneliness, especially across cultures.

Career overview

Clifford undertook his undergrad degree at Trinity College Dublin and his MSc and PhD in Psychology at Lancaster University before taking up research posts at Lancaster and Queen’s University Belfast. He has held Fellowships at Queen's University Belfast (Institute of Irish Studies, 2006-2007)  and Winchester University (Leverhulme Visiting Fellowship 2011-2012).

In terms of academic posts, Clifford was lecturer at Limerick University 2007-2012, Senior Lecturer at Queen’s University Belfast 2012-2015 (where he was Director of the Centre for Research on Political Psychology - CReSPP) and Reader at Anglia Ruskin University 2015-2016.

He is currently Visiting Professor at Hokkaido University.

Research areas

Prof Clifford Stevenson's research uses the Applied Social Identity Approach to investigate how the presence or absence of group identities affect members’ abilities to cope with adversity. This work has been funded by the Irish Research Council, Community Relations Council Northern Ireland, ESRC, AHRC, EPSRC. MRC and NHS and conducted with colleagues in Ireland, Finland, Italy, Netherlands, Iceland, India, Australia and Japan. The results are published in over 90 articles across the areas of social psychology, political psychology, community psychology, social geography and public health.

Clifford's research was the first to examine the impacts of community identification on health and wellbeing as well as the first to provide a theoretical basis to understand the group dynamics of Social Prescribing (the practice of connecting socially vulnerable individuals to community groups and activities). His research currently spans: group, cultural and economic factors in loneliness; group factors in suicide resilience; community-based loneliness reduction interventions; community resilience to deprivation, diversification and disasters.

External activity

  • Graduate member of the British Psychological Society
  • Member of the European Association of Social Psychology

Clifford is a Consultant Editor for the British Journal of Social Psychology.  He also acts as a peer reviewer for a number of journals, publishers, and grant agencies within the fields of social and political psychology.

He is Chair of the Nottingham/Nottinghamshire Tackling Loneliness Collaborative and a member of the Irish Loneliness Research Network.

Sponsors and collaborators

External Collaborators:

  • Prof Thoroddur Bjarnason, University of Akureyri
  • Prof John Drury, University of Sussex
  • Prof Eerika  Finell, University of Eastern Finland
  • Prof Dan Frings, London South Bank University
  • Prof Alex Haslam, University of Queensland
  • Prof Cath Haslam, University of Queensland
  • Prof Nick Hopkins, University of Dundee
  • Dr Ayahito Ito, Tohoku University
  • Prof Steve Reicher, St Andrews University
  • Prof Ian Shuttleworth, Queens University Belfast
  • Dr Risa Takashima, Hokkaido University

Recent grants:

  • Addressing Eating Disorders through Social Connection: The REConnectED Programme (£253k, MRC). Mar 2026 - Aug 2027. PI: Dr Niamh McNamara; CoIs Prof Clifford Stevenson, Prof Dan Frings.
  • Distinguished Professor Award (£750k, Tohoku University). Sept 2025 - August 2030. PI: Clifford Stevenson.
  • FRIENDMUM: Development of Mothers’ Interethnic Friendships in Facilitating Programme in Helsinki, North Savonia and North Karelia (€250k, Kone Foundation). Jan 2024 – Dec 2027. PI: Prof Eerika Finell; CIs: Prof Clifford Stevenson; Prof Kevin Durrheim.
  • Upscaling Inspiring Ashfield: Extending Ashfield’s Place-based Support for Social Prescribing across Mid-Notts Integrated Care Partnership. (£180k, AHRC). Feb 2022- Feb 2023. PI: Prof Clifford Stevenson; CIs:  Dr Donna Champion, Prof Di Bailey, Prof Barbara Matthews.
  • Tackling Loneliness in Nottingham (£26k Nottinghamshire County Council).Sept-2021 – Mar 2022.PI: Dr Mhairi Bowe, CIs Prof Clifford Stevenson, Dr Juliet Wakefield, Dr Blerina Kellezi.
  • SERVICE: Social and Emotional Resilience for the Vulnerable Impacted by the COVID-19 Emergency (£496k UKRI) Aug 2020 - Dec 2021. PI: Prof Blaine Price; CIs, Prof Clifford Stevenson, Prof Mark Levene, Dr Avelie Stuart, Dr Dmitri Katz, Dr Mohamed Bennasar, Dr Daniel Gooch.
  • MAMANET: Mothers’ Intra and Inter-Ethnic Contacts in Multiethnic neighbourhoods. (€272k, KONE Foundation). Jan 2019 - Dec 2021. PI: Dr Eerika Finell; CIs: Dr Clifford Stevenson; Prof Katja Repo.  
  • Understanding the transition to retirement for emergency services officers: A social identity approach (£40k, Fire Fighters Charity). Jan 2019-Dec 2020. PI: Dr Niamh McNamara; CIs: Dr Clifford Stevenson, Dr Rowena Hill, Prof Catherine Haslam, Dr Niklas Steffens, Sarah Bentley.
  • Researching the Impact of Rushcliffe Selfcare Pathway (£45k, Rushcliffe Clinical Commissioning Group). Oct 2017-Mar 2019. PI: Dr Clifford Stevenson; CIs: Dr Mhairi Bowe, Dr Blerina Kellezi, Dr Niamh McNamara, Dr Juliet Wakefield, Dr I Wilson.
  • Researching the Impact of Age-Friendly Nottinghamshire (£30k, Nottinghamshire County Council). Oct 2017 – Sept 2018. PI: Dr Clifford Stevenson; CIs: Dr Mhairi Bowe, Dr Blerina Kellezi, Dr Niamh McNamara, Dr Juliet Wakefield, Dr Iain Wilson.
  • Evaluating the Community Impact of Residential Mixing in Private and Social Housing. (£4.5k, Community Relations Council). Jan 2017-Oct 2018. PI: Dr Clifford Stevenson CI:Dr Ian Shuttleworth (QUB)
  • The UK/Ireland Border and the Stability of Peace and Security in Northern Ireland: Evidence from two Deliberative Democratic Exercises(ESRC ES/R000417/1 £286k) Apr 2017– Mar 2018.PI: Prof John Garry; CIs: Dr Clifford Stevenson; Prof Brendan O’Leary; Prof Rhiannon Turner.
  • Power-Sharing and Voting: Conflict, Accountability and Electoral Behaviour at the 2015 Northern Ireland Assembly Election (ESRC £507,000) Nov 2014 – Oct 2016. PI: Prof John Garry; CIs: Prof John Coakley, Prof Geoffrey Evans; Prof Sara Hobolt;Prof Brendan O’Leary; Dr Clifford Stevenson;  Prof James Tilly
  • Randomly Selected “Politicians”: Transforming Democracy in the Post-Conflict Context. (ESRC Transformative Research Grant £186,000) Jul 2014 – Dec 2015. PI: Prof John Garry: CIs: Dr Adele Marshall, Dr Cillian McBride, Prof Brendan O'Leary, Dr Fabian Schuppert & Dr Clifford Stevenson.
  • Exploring the Quality of Shared Housing in Belfast (Community Relations Council, £10,000). Mar 2014 – May 2015. PI: Dr Clifford Stevenson; CI: Prof John Dixon
  • Intergroup contact in a parenting reconciliation initiative in Northern Ireland (South Eastern Education and Library Board- Northern Ireland, £10,000). May 2013-Nov 2013. PI: Dr Clifford Stevenson.
  • Common Metrics for Monitoring Social Change (Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland, £5,000). Dec 2013-Mar 2014. PI:Dr Clifford Stevenson.
  • Collective participation and social identification: A study of the individual, interpersonal and collective dimensions of attendance at the Magh Mela. (ESRC, £444,000). Sept 2009 - Jun 2012. PI: Dr Nick Hopkins; CIs: Prof Steve Reicher; Dr Mark Levine; Dr Gozde Ozakinci; Dr Clifford Stevenson.
  • Embodying the Imagined Community: The role of collective participation in the transformation of Irish identities. (ESRC/IRCHSS, £440,000). Sept 2008 – Aug 2011.PIs: Prof Orla Muldoon & Dr Dominic Bryan; CIs: Prof Steve Reicher; Dr Clifford Stevenson
  • Revitalising Communities: A framework for assessing social change. (IRCHSS, €97,000). Jan 2009 – Dec 2010. PI: Dr Clifford Stevenson. CI: Prof Orla Muldoon.

Publications

Hart, H., Stevenson., C. & Kellezi, B., (forthcoming). Manchester Stands United: Place-based identity facilitates resilience in the aftermath of a mass emergency. British Journal of Social Psychology.

Riikonen, R., Finell, E., Seppala, T., Paajanen, P., & Stevenson, C., (forthcoming). Identification with local mothers is related to mothers’ attitudes towards their children’s intergroup contact: A serial mediation model. Journal of Applied Social Psychology.

Charles, S. J., Stevenson, C., Wakefield, J. R., & Fino, E. (2026). Diversity of group memberships predicts wellbeing: cross sectional and longitudinal evidence. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672231202278

Dingle, G. A., … Stevenson, C. et al., (2025) Australian and UK perspectives on social prescribing implementation research: Theory, measurement, resourcing and discovery to ensure health equity. Health and Social Care in the Community. https://doi.org/10.1155/hsc/2650302

Dixon, J., Durrheim, K., Tredoux, C., McKeown, S., Stevenson, C., & Huck, J. (2025). ‘Crossing the line’: A boundary transgression model of resistance to desegregation. European Review of Social Psychology, 1-42. https://doi.org/10.1080/10463283.2025.2550110

Fino, E., Morris, S. M., Stevenson, C., Shuttleworth, I., Finell, E., & Bjarnason, Þ. (2025). Personality and the “Social Cure”: The Role of Ego-Resilience in the Social Identity Approach to Health. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 19485506251325294. https://doi.org/10.1177/19485506251325294

Harkin, L., Stevenson, C., Fino., E., et al. (2025). Older adults can re-appraise loneliness using a social connectivity app: a mixed method intervention study. Ageing and Mental Health. https://doi.org/10.1080/13607863.2025.2572017

Garry, J., Pow, J., Stevenson, C., & Stone, P. (2024). Imaginative policy surveys in divided societies: Feasibility, effect and perceived legitimacy. International Political Science Review, 45(2), 243-260. https://doi.org/10.1177/01925121221125049

Gooch, D., Bandara, A. K., Bennaceur, A., Giles, E., Harkin, L., Katz, D., ... & Price, B. A. (2024). Reflections on using the story completion method in designing tangible user interfaces. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 192, 103360. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhcs.2024.103360

Haslam, S. A., Haslam, C., Cruwys, T., Sharman, L. S., Hayes, S., Walter, Z., ... & Young, T. (2024). Tackling loneliness together: A three-tier social identity framework for social prescribing. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 27(5), 1128-1150. https://doi.org/10.1177/13684302241242434

Mclocklin, G., Kellezi, B., Stevenson, C., & Mackay, J. (2024). Disclosure decisions and help-seeking experiences amongst victim-survivors of non-consensual intimate image distribution. Victims & Offenders, 1-27. https://doi.org/10.1080/15564886.2024.2329107

Riikonen, R., Finell, E., Seppälä, T., & Stevenson, C. (2024). The more diverse the better: Identifying with a diverse neighbourhood mother community predicts greater intergroup contact. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1002/casp.2764

Shala, A., Këllezi, B., Wakefield, J. R., & Stevenson, C. (2024). How social norms shape the long-term consequences of war rape: A mixed-method qualitative exploration. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/pac0000720

Wakefield, J. R., Stevenson, C., Këllezi, B., McNamara, N., Bowe, M., Dobai, A., ... & Tunçgenç, B. (2024). Articles from and inspired by the 5th International Conference on Social Identity and Health. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1002/casp.2790

Harkin, L., Stuart, A., Stevenson, C., Daly, R., Talbot, C. V., Park, M. S. A., ... & Price, B. (2023). Being cut off from social identity resources has shaped loneliness during the COVID-19 pandemic: A longitudinal interview study with medically vulnerable older adults from the United Kingdom. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1002/casp.2724

McNamara, N., Wakefield, J. R., Mair, E., Rennoldson, M., Stevenson, C., & Fitzsimmons, W. (2023). Multiple group identifications and identity compatibility in eating disorder recovery: A mixed methods study. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1002/casp.2720

Paajanen, P., Finell, E., Riikonen, R., & Stevenson, C. (2023). ‘Hey, teach these kids to eat their own food!’: Institutional intergroup contact in immigrant mothers' talk. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, 33(6), 1426-1439. https://doi.org/10.1002/casp.2746

Paajanen, P., Seppälä, T., Stevenson, C., Riikonen, R., & Finell, E. (2023). Keeping apart on the playground: Construction of informal segregation on public playgrounds in multiethnic neighborhoods. Social Psychology Quarterly, 86(1), 53-73. https://doi.org/10.1177/01902725221116632

Riikonen, R., Finell, E., Suoninen, E., Paajanen, P., & Stevenson, C. (2023). Who is expected to make contact? Interpretative repertoires related to an intergroup encounter between Finnish majority mothers and immigrant mothers. British Journal of Social Psychology, 62(1), 264-280. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12580

Seppälä, T., Riikonen, R., Stevenson, C., Paajanen, P., Repo, K., & Finell, E. (2023). Intragroup contact with other mothers living in the same neighborhood benefits mothers' life satisfaction: The mediating role of group identification and social support. Journal of Community Psychology, 51(3), 1365-1377. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcop.22960

Stevenson, C., Wakefield, J.R.H, Bowe, M., Kellezi, B., Jones, B., & McNamara, N. (2023). Weathering the Storm Together: Family identification predicts future wellbeing during COVID-19 via enhanced financial resilience. Journal of Family Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/fam0000951

Stuart, A., Yan, R. J., Harkin, L. J., Katz, D., Stevenson, C., Mehta, V., ... & Price, B. (2023). Digital intervention in loneliness in older adults: Qualitative analysis of user studies. JMIR Formative Research, 7(1), e42172. https://doi.org/10.2196/42172

Bjarnason, T., Shuttleworth, I., Stevenson, C., & Finell, E. (2022). Migration and partisan identification as British Unionists or Irish Nationalists in Northern Ireland. Acta Sociologica 66(4) https://doi.org/10.1177/00016993221136979.

Clark, I., Lawton, C., Stevenson, C., Vickers, T., & Dahill, D. (2022). A ‘place-based’ approach to work and employment: The end of reciprocity for ordinary working families and ‘giggers’ in a place. Economic and Industrial Democracy, 43(2), 634-657. https://doi.org/10.1177/0143831X20946374

Finell, E., & Stevenson, C. (2022). Interpersonal bonds with fellow nationals, blind patriotism and preference for Immigrants' acculturation. Scandinavian journal of psychology, 63(4), 383-392.https://doi.org/10.1111/sjop.12817

Paajanen, P., Seppälä, T., Stevenson, C., & Finell, E. (2022). Child’s presence shapes immigrant women’s experiences of everyday intergroup contact. Journal of Social and Political Psychology. https://doi.org/10.5964/jspp.7477

Seppala., T., Riikonen, R., Paajanen, P., Stevenson., C., and Finell, E., (2022) Development of First-time Mothers’ Sense of Shared Identity and Integration with their Neighbourhood. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1002/casp.2592

Stevenson, C., Wakefield, J.R.H, Bowe, M., Kellezi, B., Jones, B., & McNamara, N. (2022). Weathering the Storm Together: Family identification predicts future wellbeing during COVID-19 via enhanced financial resilience.Journal of Family Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/fam0000951

Bar-Tal, D., Trew, K., Hameiri, B., Stevenson, C., & Nahhas, E. (2021). Ethos of conflict as the prism to evaluate the Northern Irish and the Israeli-Palestinian conflicts by the involved societies: A comparative analysis. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/pac0000547

Stevenson, C., Wakefield, J., Felsner, I. & Drury, J., (2021) Collectively Coping with Coronavirus: Local Community Identification Predicts Giving Support and Lockdown Adherence During the COVID-19 Pandemic. British Journal of Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12457

McNamara, N., Stevenson, C., Kellezi, B., Wakefield, J. R. H.,, Mair, E., Bowe, M., ... & Halder, M. (2021) Community identification, social support and loneliness: The benefits of social identification for personal well-being. British Journal of Social Psychology  https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12456

Blaylock, D. L., Stevenson, C., O’Donnell, A. T., Reicher, S. D., Bryan, D., Neville, F. G., & Muldoon, O. T. (2021). From I to we: participants’ accounts of the development and impact of shared identity at large-scale displays of Irish national identity. Irish Political Studies, 36(1), 92-108. https://doi.org/10.1080/07907184.2021.1877896

Shuttleworth, I., Finell, E., Bjarnason, Þ., & Stevenson, C. (2021). Individual residential mobility, immobility, and political attitudes: The case of Brexit voting intentions in the 2016 UK EU Referendum. Population, Space and Place, e2444.

Këllezi, B., Wakefield, J., Bowe, M., Stevenson, C., & McNamara, N. (2021). Healthcare provision inside immigration removal centres: A social identity analysis of trust, legitimacy and disengagement. Applied Psychology: Health and Well‐Being. https://doi.org/10.1111/aphw.12263

Bowe, M., Wakefield, J. R., Kellezi, B., Stevenson, C., McNamara, N., Jones, B. A., ... & Heym, N. (2021). The mental health benefits of community helping during crisis: Coordinated helping, community identification and sense of unity during the COVID‐19 pandemic. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1002/casp.2520

Kellezi, B., Guxholli, A., Stevenson, C., Wakefield, J. R. H., Bowe, M., & Bridger, K. (2021). ‘Enemy of the People’: Family identity as Social Cure and Curse dynamics in contexts of human rights violations. European Journal of Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2750

Stevenson, C., Wakefield, J. R. H. (2021) Financial distress and suicidal behaviour during COVID-19: Family identification attenuates the negative relationship between COVID-related financial distress and mental Ill-health. Journal of Health Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1177/13591053211014597

Stevenson, C., Wakefield, J. R., Kellezi, B., Stack, R. J., & Dogra, S. (2021). Families as support and burden: A mixed methods exploration of the extent to which family identification and support predicts reductions in stress among disadvantaged neighbourhood residents. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, https://doi.org/10.1177/02654075211050071

Stuart, A., Stevenson, C., Koschate, M., Cohen J., Levine. M., (2021) “Oh no, not a group!” The factors that lonely or isolated people report as barriers to joining groups for health and wellbeing. Journal of Health Psychologyhttps://doi.org/10.1111/bjhp.12536

Bowe, M., Gray, D., Stevenson, C., McNamara, N., Wakefield, J. R., Kellezi, B., ... & Costa, S. (2020). A Social Cure in the Community: A mixed‐method exploration of the role of social identity in the experiences and well‐being of community volunteers. European Journal of Social Psychology, 50(7), 1523-1539. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2706

Stevenson, C., Turner, R., & Costa, S. (2020). “Welcome to our neighbourhood”: Collective confidence in contact facilitates successful mixing in residential settings. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, https://doi.org/10.1177/1368430220961151.

Stevenson, C., Costa, S., Wakefield,J.H., Kellezi,B.& Stack,R.(2020) Family Identification Facilitates Coping with Financial Stress: A Social Identity Approach to Family Financial Resilience. Journal of Economic Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joep.2020.102271

Shuttleworth, I., Stevenson, C., Bjarnason, Þ., & Finell, E. (2020). Geography, psychology and the ‘Big Five’personality traits: Who moves, and over what distances, in the United Kingdom?. Population, Space and Place, e2418. https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.2418

Kauff, M., Beneda, M., Paolini, S., Bilewicz, M., Kotzur, P., O'Donnell, A. W., Stevenson, C., Wagner, U. & Christ, O. (2020). How do we get people into contact? Predictors of intergroup contact and drivers of contact seeking. Journal of Social Issues. https://doi.org/10.1111/josi.12398

Marinucci, M., Maunder, R., Sanchez, K., Thai, M., McKeown, S., Turner, R. N., & Stevenson, C. (2020). Intimate intergroup contact across the lifespan. Journal of Social Issues.https://doi.org/10.1111/josi.12399

Stevenson, C., Costa, S., Easterbrook, M.J., McNamara, N., Kellezi, B.(2020) Social Cure Processes Help Lower Intergroup Anxiety Among Neighbourhood Residents. Political Psychology, 41(6), 1093-1111. doi:10.1111/pops.12667

Reicher, S., Hopkins, N., Stevenson, C., Pandey, K., Shankar, S., & Tewari, S. (2020). Identity enactment as collective accomplishment: Religious identity enactment at home and at a festival. British Journal of Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12415

Bjarnason, T., Stevenson, C., Shuttleworth, I., & Meckl, M. (2020). Spatial mobility and tolerance towards immigrants: the case of Northern Iceland. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 43(10), 1813-1832. https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2019.1667003

Kellezi, B., Wakefield, J. R. H., Stevenson, C., McNamara, N., Mair, E., Bowe, M., ... & Halder, M. M. (2019). The social cure of social prescribing: a mixed-methods study on the benefits of social connectedness on quality and effectiveness of care provision. BMJOpen, 9(11). 10.1136/bmjopen-2019-033137

Hopkins, N., Reicher, S., Stevenson, C., Pandey, K., Shankar, S. & Tewari, S. (2019). Social relations in a crowd: Shared identity and its implications. European Journal of Social Psychology. doi: 10.1002/ejsp.2586

Wakefield, J.R.H., Bowe, M., Kellezi, B., McNamara, N., and Stevenson, C. (2019) When Groups Help and When Groups Harm: Origins, Developments, and Future Directions of the ‘Social Cure’ Perspective of Group Dynamics. Social and Personality Psychology Compass. e12440. doi: 10.1111/spc3.12440.

McNicholl, K, Stevenson., C. & Garry, J. (2018). How the ‘Northern Irish’ National Identity is Understood and Used by Young People and Politicians. Political Psychology. doi: 10.1111/pops.12523

Halder, M. M.; Wakefield, J.R.H., Bowe, M., Kellezi, B., Mair, E., McNamara, N., Wilson, I. and Stevenson, C. (2018) Evaluation and exploration of a social prescribing initiative: Study protocol. Journal of Health Psychology. 10.1177/1359105318814160

Stevenson, C., Easterbrook, M.J., Harkin, L., McNamara, N., Kellezi, B., & Shuttleworth, I. (2018) Neighbourhood Identity Helps Residents Cope with Residential Diversification: Contact in Increasingly Mixed Neighbourhoods of Northern Ireland. Political Psychology doi:10.1111/pops.12510

Stevenson, C., McNamara, N., Easterbrook, M.J., Kellezi, B., Shuttleworth, I. & Hyden, D. (2018) Re-identifying Residential Mixing: Emergent Identity Dynamics Between Incomers and Existing Residents in a Mixed Neighbourhood in Northern Ireland. European Journal of Social Psychology. doi: 10.1002/ejsp.2529

Stevenson, C. & Sagherian-Dickey, T. (2018). Territoriality and Migration in a Divided Society: Lay Theories of Citizenship and Place in Northern Ireland. Qualitative Psychology 5(1), 135-154.doi:10.1037/qup0000072

Andelic, N., Stevenson., C. & Feeney, A. (2018). Managing a Moral Identity in Debt Advice Conversations. British Journal of Social Psychology. doi:10.1111/bjso.12303

McNeill, A., Pehrson, S. & Stevenson, C. (2017) The rhetorical complexity of competitive and common victimhood in conversational discourse. European Journal of Social Psychology, 47 (2) 167 – 179. doi: 10.1002/ejsp.2255

Shayleigh, J., Drury, J. & Stevenson, C. (2017). Listen to the band! How sound realizes group identity and enacts intergroup domination British Journal of Social Psychology. doi:10.1111/bjso.12175.

Stevenson, C. & Sagherian-Dickey, T. (2016). Collectively Coping with Contact: The role of ingroup support in dealing with the challenges of intergroup mixing in residential contexts. British Journal of Social Psychology 55(4), 681-699. doi: 10.1111/bjso.12150.

Khan, S., Hopkins, N., Reicher, S. Tewari, S., Srinivasan, N. & Stevenson, C. (2015). Shared identity predicts enhanced health at mass gatherings. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations. doi: 10.1177/1368430214556703

Stevenson, C., Hopkins, N., Luyt., R. & Dixon, J. (2015). The Social Psychology of Citizenship, Participation and Social Exclusion: Introduction to the Special Thematic Section. Journal of Political and Social Psychology (vol 3). doi:10.5964/jspp.v3i2.579

Stevenson, C., Hopkins, N., Luyt., R. & Dixon, J. (2015). The Social Psychology of Citizenship: Engagement with Citizenship Studies and Future Research. Journal of Political and Social Psychology (vol 3). doi:10.5964/jspp.v3i2.581

Stevenson, C., McNamara, N., & Muldoon, O. (2014). Stigmatised identity and service usage in disadvantaged communities: Residents', community workers' and service providers' perspectives. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, 24(6), 453-466. doi: 10.1002/casp.2184

Pandey, K., Stevenson, C., Shankar, S., Hopkins, N. P., & Reicher, S. D. (2014). Cold comfort at the Magh Mela: Social identity processes and physical hardship. British Journal of Social Psychology. 53 (4), 675-690. doi: 10.1111/bjso.12054

Pehrson, S., Stevenson, C., Muldoon, O. T., & Reicher, S. (2014). Is everyone Irish on St Patrick's Day? Divergent expectations and experiences of collective self‐objectification at a multicultural parade. British Journal of Social Psychology. 53(2), 249-264. doi: 10.1111/bjso.12029

Shankar, S., Stevenson, C., Pandey, K., Tewari, S., Hopkins, N. P., & Reicher, S. D. (2013). A calming cacophony: Social identity can shape the experience of loud noise. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 36, 87-95. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2013.07.004

McNamara, N., Stevenson, C. & Muldoon, O. (2013). Community Identity as Resource and Context: A mixed method investigation of coping and collective action in a disadvantaged community. European Journal of Social Psychology. 43 (5), 493 – 503. doi: 10.1002/ejsp.1953

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My expertise spans identity, vulnerability and resilience in marginalised communities, Social Prescribing, community diversity and integration in residential settings.