Dr Anne Templeton

University of Edinburgh

Dr Anne Templeton is a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Social Psychology at the University of Edinburgh, the PI of the project, and leads the Identities and Collective Behaviour research group. Her research primarily focuses on using the social identity approach to improve crowd safety in emergencies and at mass events. Anne does this through exploring the role of social identities in communication between crowd members and safety personnel, and incorporating the role of social identities into pedestrian models of collective behaviour. Anne has either conducted research or advised on crowd safety for the UK Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, UK Sport, the Sports Grounds Safety Authority, the UK Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Local Communities, the Hajj, PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Winter Games, Rail Safety and Standards Boards, Local Authority Building Control, and the Cabinet Office.