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Links to the Department
Department
of Psychology
at University
of Surrey
University
of Surrey
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2002-2003
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BALDRIDGE, A.E.
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Workplace attachment: A study on place attachment
and
place-identity in the workplace
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CARRO LEMOS, D.
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Trust and place attachment in the context
of a major environmental
disaster: Predicting people’s reaction
after the Prestige oil spill in Galicia
– Spain
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CUDMORE, S.
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An exploratory study of individuals’
perceptions of a naval environment.
The making and breaking of Able Seaman’s psychological contracts by
the Royal Navy
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DALTON, F.J.
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Place, participant and identity: an evaluation of the experience of the
founding members of the Woking Youth Council
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DIMITRIOU, D.
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Elderly people and their relocation to a
care home environment: a cross
cultural comparison
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FOSTER, S.
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PAYNE, S.R.
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Skateboarders’ perceptions and
preferences of the built environment:
differences in natural and purpose built designs
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THEEMAN, M.L.
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Reactions to Fluorescent Light Pairs:
Indication of an Across-Participant Pattern of Light Preference
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2001-2002
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BAKER, J.
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Predicting preferences for park
attributes
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BARTER-GODFREY, S.
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Experiences of the local environment
influences, local pro-environmental behaviour choice: drawing together social
exclusion, sense of place and sustainability behaviours
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GOOCH, D.
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An investigation of intrapersonal and
interpersonal factors causing perceived conflict and influencing conflict
behaviour on non-motorised shared use routes
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HORNE,
N.
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The Influence of Biological Sex,
Sexuality and Gender Role on Interpersonal Distance
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IWAI, R
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The Meanings of Culture in Places: A
Cross-Cultural Approach with Multiple Sorting Procedure
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KELLY, N.
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The effects of trust and conflict on risk
communication
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KOJIMA, K.
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A
Cross-Cultural Study of Preference to
Judged Appropriateness for Room Colours
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SCHIOTZ, T.
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Fear of crime variance as a function of
levels of environmental dilapidation and police presence
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STANBRIDGE, K.
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Reducing the environmental impacts of car
use: environmental concern and attitudes to action
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TANAKA, M.
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How different layouts influence workers’
perception of team effectiveness
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TITE, L.
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Physical Incivility and Fear of Crime:
The Influence of Resident Social Integration and Place Attachment on
Responses to Signs of Incivility in the Residential Environment: A Comparison
of Ethnic and Non-Ethnic Minority Individuals
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WARD-STREETER, D.
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An Exploratory Study of Secondary School
Children’s Perceptions of Place
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Completed PhD Theses
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Project
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A community in transition: a longitudinal study
of place attachment and identity processes in the context of an enforced
relocation
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Researcher
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Gerda
Speller
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Dates
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Completed 2000
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Project
Description
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This thesis examines the relationship
between place and identity. It is concerned with the process of attachment to
place and how this process is linked to identity. The study was longitudinal in
design and uses both qualitative and quantitative approaches. The context is
provided by the enforced relocation of Arkright Town, a 100
year old North East Derbyshire mining village to a near-by site. The research
monitored the relocation process over a six year period. Framed within transactional
and social constructivist paradigms, the focus of the research is on how
residents experienced the socio-psychological changes during and after the
relocation.
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The affordances of the home, neighbourhood,
school and town centre environments for adolescents |
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Researcher
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Charlotte
Clark
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Dates
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October
1997 - October 2001 |
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Project
Description
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This research examines the affordances of
the home, neighbourhood, school and town centre environments for adolescents,
aged 11-16 years, focussing in particular on the functional significance of
these four key environments for adolescents by examining the support available
in these environments for social interaction and retreat behaviours. The thesis also examines the feelings of fear
and vulnerability that affect adolescents’ use of the town centre and
neighbourhood.
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Project
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An empirical assessment of cultural theory and
its implications for environmental attitudes, risk perception and behaviour
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Researcher
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Nicholas
Meader
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Dates
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October
1998 - October 2001
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Project
Description
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Cultural
theory suggests that there are four prototype worldviews (hierarchism,
egalitarianism, individualism and fatalism) which are related to environmental
risk perceptions, environmental attitudes and environmentally relevant
behaviour. Although the theory is often used, there is a lack of existing
quantitative operationalising and measurement of constructs fundamental to the
theory. This PhD aims to develop valid measures for the main components of the
theory and to test its major hypotheses.
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Current PhD Studies
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Project
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Integrating Scientific and Lay
Accounts of Air Pollution
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Researcher
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Tanika
Kelay
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Supervisors
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Prof. David Uzzell, Dr. Birgitta
Gatersleben (Department of Psychology)
Dr. Susan Hughes, Dr. Emma Hellawell (Department
of Civil Engineering)
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Dates
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October
2000 - Present
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Project
Description
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Funded
by the ESRC and NERC, this inter-disciplinary research explores the
relationship between transport and urban air quality in the Borough of
Guildford, and public responses to air pollution. Emphasis is placed on the
development of alternative methodologies to elucidate public understandings of
air pollution through the use of mapping exercises and GIS (Geographical
Information Systems) as a tool to present data. Using these methodologies,
perceptions of air pollution dispersion have been compared with monitored and
modelled air pollution data in order to detect and identify disparities. The
findings demonstrate that public estimates of air pollution are not unlike
scientific accounts. This has major theoretical implications for risk research
and bridging what we researchers perceive to be the widening “knowledge-gap” or
“gulf of understanding” between experts and the public. Importance is also
placed on the ways in which scientific knowledge is produced and mediated in
the public realm, and the ways in which the public use this knowledge in order
to shape their own understandings of their environment.
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Project
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Workplace Environmental
Evaluation: Behaviour Setting Analysis on PhD Student
Offices
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Researcher
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YeonKoo Hong (Michael)
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Supervisors
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Prof.
David Uzzell, Dr. Lynne Purvis
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Dates
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May
2003 - Present
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Project
Description
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Because of the purposeful and
goal-directed nature of an organization, behaviour settings in organisations
are expected to serve certain functions within spatial and time boundaries
which permit or support some behavioural patterns to take place while
restricting others. Thus, through analysing the patterns of behaviours within
the environment, the project aims to evaluate the person-environment “fit”
between the student occupants and the office environments in relation to the
goals and purposes of the department as well as the university as an academic
organisation.
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Project
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Psychological
and Social Factors that influence Environmental Action: A
comparison beteen Mexican, English and Chinese Students.
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Researcher
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Marcela
Acuna-Rivera
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Supervisors
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Prof. David Uzzell
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Dates
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2003
– Present
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Project
Description
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Increasingly,
social participation at local, regional and national levels has become a main strategy to ensure environmental sustainability. To achieve this, it is necessary to promote sustainable life-styles (Uzzell, Pol and Badena, 2002) that enable people to act themselves in co-operation with social, public and private sectors. Thus, understanding human
decision making and behaviour and its interaction with the environment, is a main issue in order to foster pro-environmental life styles. In line with Jensen and Schnack (1994) the concept of action competence could account for the aforementioned, since it is aimed to promote “the capacity to be able to
act now and in the future and to be answerable for one’s action”. The purpose of this project is to know to what extent psychological and social factors can predict action competence in Mexican, English and Chinese students.
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