Alex Haslam

Biography

Alex has been with the School since 2012 following positions at the Australian National University and the University of Exeter. His research focuses on the study of group and identity processes in organisational, social, and clinical contexts. Together with colleagues around the world, Alex has written and edited 11 books and published over 200 peer-reviewed articles on these topics. He has won several international teaching awards as well as the European Association of Social Psychology's Lewin Medal for excellence in social psychological research in 2005 and the British Psychology Society's Presidents' Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychological Science in 2016. Alex's work on the Glass Cliff was identified by the New York Times as one of the ‘Best 100 Ideas’ of 2008, and his co-authored book The New Psychology of Leadership won the International Leadership Association’s Outstanding Leadership Book Award in 2012. Alex is a Senior Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (and co-director of its Social Interactions, Identity and Well-being Program) and Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science. He is on the editorial board of 10 international journals including Scientific American Mind for which he writes regularly.

Research Interest

Study of group and identity processes in organisational, social, and clinical contexts.