Richard John Crisp

Richard John Crisp, a Social psychologist, is Professor of Psychology at the Durham University

Biography

Crisp graduated from the University of Oxford in experimental psychology in 1995 and obtained a D.Phil. in psychology from the University of Cardiff in 1999. Then, he was appointed lecturer at the University of Birmingham in 1999, and then promoted to senior lecturer in 2003, and to reader in 2004. Since 2007, he has been a professor of psychology at the University of Kent where he was head of the School of Psychology from 2008-2011.

He is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Applied Social Psychology, the social psychology editor for the British Psychological Society endorsed Wiley-Blackwell Textbooks in Psychology series, and consulting editor for Sage’s social psychology publishing programme. He is former associate editor of the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. He is a past recipient of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues Louise Kidder Early Career Award (2003), the British Psychological Society's Spearman Medal (2006), and the Gordon Allport Intergroup Relations Prize (2011). He is a fellow of the British Psychological Society, the Association for Psychological Science, and the Society of Experimental Social Psychology, and an academician of the Academy of Social Sciences.

Books

• Crisp, R. J. & Turner, R. N. (2010). Essential Social Psychology (2nd ed.). London: Sage. (also published in Chinese, Polish and Portuguese)

Edited books

• Crisp, R. J. (Ed.) (2011). Social Psychology: Critical Concepts in Psychology. Hove, E. Sussex: Routledge (Taylor & Francis).
• Crisp, R. J. (Ed.) (2010). The Psychology of Social and Cultural Diversity. Oxford: SPSSI-Blackwell.
• Crisp, R. J. & Hewstone, M. (Eds.) (2006). Multiple Social Categorization: Processes, Models and Applications. Hove, E. Sussex: Psychology Press (Taylor & Francis).