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Dr. Nick Hopkins

Senior Lecturer

 

Contact Details:
Telephone: (+44)(1382) 384625
Email: Nick Hopkins

Postal Address:
School of Psychology
The University of Dundee
Dundee
DD1 4HN
Scotland, UK

 

Biography

After a undergraduate degree in Experimental Psychology and a masters degree in Criminology I did my PhD in Social Psychology. I had a couple of years as a Research Assistant in Bristol and then came to Dundee in 1989. And I'm still here - because it's a great place to live and work.

I teach social psychology on our undergraduate course and qualitative research methods on our MSc course. In terms of research I'm interested in group behaviour and how our identities are based upon our group memberships. Some of the research I pursue is experimental. However in other research I have looked at the construction of group identity and how this may be involved in the organisation of group behaviour. Typically this work has involved the analysis of qualitative materials - e.g., speeches. It is also becoming rather more ethnographic in orientation.

In much of this work I have collaborated with Steve Reicher at St Andrews (see for example Reicher, S. & Hopkins, N., 2001 'Self and Nation', London: Sage). However I have also worked with others (e.g., Mark Levine at Lancaster and - while she was alive - Clare Cassidy at St Andrews). I've also worked quite a lot with my partner - Vered. Now working in the area of drug policy, her PhD (in Politics) was in the field of Muslims' political organisation and action in the UK. Some of her data lent themselves to a social psychological analysis and we've worked on other data together too.

I also have longstanding links with social psychologists in India and have been involved in a number of teaching and research skills training projects based at the University of Allahabad. This collaboration is ongoing and exciting.

I am an Associate Editor for the British Journal of Social Psychology

Research Grouping

Self and Identity

Indicative publications

Links	Publications
	Tewari, S. Khan, S., Hopkins, N., Srinivasan, N. & Reicher, S. D. (2012). Participation in mass gatherings can benefit well-being: Longitudinal and control data from a North Indian Hindu pilgrimage event. PLoS ONE 7(10):e47291.doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0047291. Access for free at: http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0047291
	Wakefield, J.R.H., Hopkins, N., & Greenwood, R.M. (2012) Thanks, But No Thanks: Women’s Avoidance of Help-Seeking in the Context of a Dependency-Relaed Stereotype. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 36, 425 - 433. DOI: 10.1177/0361684312457659.
	Wakefield, J.R.H., Hopkins, N., & Greenwood, R.M. (in press) Meta-Stereotypes, Social Image and Help-Seeking: Dependency-Related Meta-Stereotypes Reduce Help-Seeking Behaviour. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, DOI: 10.1002/casp.2126.
	Hopkins, N. (2011). Dual identities and their recognition: minority group members' perspectives. Political Psychology, 32, 251-270.
	Hopkins, N & Blackwood, L. (2011). Everyday Citizenship: Identity and Recognition. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, 21, 215–227.
	Hopkins, N. & Reicher, S.D. (2011) Identity, Culture and Contestation: Social Identity as Cross-Cultural Theory. Psychological Studies, 56, 36-43(8)
	Hopkins, N. (2011). Religion and social capital: Identity matters. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, 21, 215-227.
	Wakefield, J.R.H., Hopkins, N., Cockburn, C., Shek, K.M., Muirhead, A., Reicher, S., & van Rijswijk, W. (2011). Impact of Adopting Ethnic or Civic Conceptions of National Belonging for Others' Treatment Personality. Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin, 37, 1599-1610.
	Blackwood, L., Hopkins, N. & Reicher, S. (in press). I know who I am, but who do they think I am? : Muslim perspectives on encounters with airport authorities. Ethnic & Racial Studies
	Reicher, S. & Hopkins, N. (2001) Self and Nation. London: Sage.
	Hopkins, N., Zeedyk, S. & Raitt, F. (2005) Visualising abortion: emotion discourse and fetal imagery in a contemporary abortion debate. Social Science and Medicine. 61/2, 393-403
	Hopkins, N. & Reicher, S. (2005) Culture, social identity and the organisation of collective action: developing a culturally sensitive social psychology. Psychological Studies, 50, 217-225.
	Hopkins, N. & Kahani-Hopkins (2006) Minority group members' theories of intergroup contact: A case study of British Muslims' conceptualisations of 'Islamophobia' and social change. British Journal of Social Psychology, 45, 245-264.
	Hopkins, N., Kahani-Hopkins & Reicher, S.D. (2006) Identity and social change: Contextualising agency. Feminism and Psychology, 16, 52-57.
	Hopkins, N. and Dixon, J. (2006). Space, place and identity: issues for political psychology. Political Psychology, 27, 173-185
	Hopkins, N., Reicher, S. & Harrison, K. (2006). Young people's deliberations on geographic mobility: Identity and cross-border relocation. . Political Psychology, 27, 227-245
	Hopkins, N., Greenwood, R.M., & Birchall, M. (2007). Minority understandings of the dynamics to inter-group contact encounters: British Muslims' (sometimes ambivalent) experiences of representing their group to others. South African Journal of Psychology, 37, 679-701.
	Hopkins, N., Reicher, S., Harrison, K., Cassidy, C., Bull, R., & Levine, M. (2007) Helping to improve the group stereotype: On the strategic dimension of pro-social behavior. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 33, 776-788.
	Hopkins, N. & Kahani-Hopkins, V. (2009). Reconceptualising 'extremism' and 'moderation': From categories of analysis to categories of practice in the construction of collective identity. British Journal of Social Psychology, 48, 99-113.
	van Rijswijk, W., Hopkins, N. & Johnston, H. (2009). The role of social categorisation and identity threat in the perception of migrants. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, 19, 1-6.

 

 

Teaching

Social psychology (e.g., in relation to group identity, social influence, collective behaviour)

Qualitative Research Methods

 

 

Administration

Level 3 Social Psychology Module Convenor

College and Senate Terminations Committee

 

 

Additional Information

Degrees

B.A. Experimental Psychology, Oxford
M.Phil. Criminology, Cambridge
Ph.D. Psychology, Exeter