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  • Job title: Senior Lecturer
  • Dept: Applied Social Sciences
  • Tel: 01227 767700 ext 3838
  • Campus: Canterbury
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Senior Lecturer in Psychology / Year 1 Coordinator

Teaching responsibilities

  • MPSMD1RMP Introduction to Research Methods in Psychology (Convenor) 
  • MPSMD2QMP Qualitative Research Methods in Psychology (Convenor)
  • MPSMD3PRP Psychology Research Project

Research interests

My research so far has been concerned, in general terms, with group culture - the way in which collective norms and identity function in large-scale social categories, and the way in which individuals within the group relate to this. Acculturation, national identity and communal environmental action are the areas in which I have examined these phenomena so far. Specifically, I have worked on ...

  • contents of national identity (symbols, values, trait stereotypes) and their relationship with national identification and comparative context
  • acculturation attitudes and ethnic identity among primary-school children
  • the prediction of household waste recycling from personal attitudes and neighbourhood norms
  • feedback interventions using intergroup, temporal and normative comparisons to encourage participation in recycling

In the future, I would like to pursue more interdisciplinary and multi-methodological approaches to these issues. Current or planned research projects include ...

  • cultural identity and acculturation among German Turks, and inter-generational variation in these
  • historical comparisons in national identity
  • national symbols as foci of identification and signifiers of historical/cultural meaning
  • interpersonal and situational variation in the correspondence between self-descriptions and ethnic/national prototypes
  • the influence of cultural adaptation and intergroup contact in acculturation 
 

Membership of professional organisations

  • British Psychological Society (BPS)
  • Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI)
  • International Academy for Intercultural Research (IAIR)

Recent publications

  • Nigbur, D., Lyons, E., & Uzzell, D. (2010). Attitudes, norms, identity and environmental behaviour: Using an expanded theory of planned behaviour to predict participation in a kerbside recycling programme. British Journal of Social Psychology, 49(2), 259-284.
  • Zagefka, H., & Nigbur, D. (2009). Ethnische Gruppen: Akkulturation und Integration. In A. Beelmann & K. J. Jonas (Eds.), Diskriminierung und Toleranz: Psychologische Grundlagen und Anwendungsperspektiven. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag.
  • Nigbur, D., Brown, R., Cameron, L., Hossain, R., Landau, A. R., Le Touze, D. S., Rutland, A., & Watters, C. (2008). Acculturation, well-being and classroom behaviour among white British and British Asian primary-school children in the south-east of England: Validating a child-friendly measure of acculturation attitudes. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 32(6), 493-504.
  • Hossain, R., Watters, C., Brown, R., Cameron, L., Landau, A. R., Le Touze, D. S., Nigbur, D., & Rutland, A. (2007). Social capital, ethnicity and children's well-being: Aspects of social capital in the everyday lives of British Punjabi children. International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care, 3(2), 4-21.
  • Nigbur, D., & Cinnirella, M. (2007). National identification, type and specificity of comparison, and their effects on descriptions of national character. European Journal of Social Psychology, 37(4), 672-691.
  • Pepper, M., & Nigbur, D. (2005). The psychology of recycling. Resource, 24, 31-33.

Conference presentations and posters

  • Nigbur, D., & Franz, A. (2011, September). References to history in national identity: Interview and focus group data on historical comparisons. Paper presented at the BPS Social Psychology Section Conference, Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge.
  • Nigbur, D., Brown, R., Cameron, L., Hossain, R., Landau, A. R., Le Touze, D. S., Rutland, A., & Watters, C. (2009, September). Is identification equivalent to acculturation? Dynamics of ethnicity and well-being among British primary-schoolers. Paper presented at the BPS Social Psychology Section Conference, Sheffield.
  • Brown, R., Cameron, L., Rutland, A., Hossain, R., Landau, A. R., Le Touze, D. S., Nigbur, D., & Watters, C. (2008, June). Acculturation processes and social relations in young children: Why 'integration' is (mostly) good for you. Paper presented at the 15th General Meeting of the European Association for Experimental Social Psychology, Opatija.
  • Nigbur, D., & Cinnirella, M. (2008, June). "Whose bread I eat, his song I sing": High identifiers and those exposed to intergroup situations see themselves closer to the national prototype. Paper presented at the CRONEM Conference on Nationalism, Ethnicity and Citizenship: Whose citizens? Whose Rights?, University of Surrey, Guildford.
  • Nigbur, D., Brown, R., Cameron, L., Hossain, R., Landau, A. R., Le Touze, D. S., et al. (2007, June). Acculturation experiences of British Asian primary-school children: Why "integration" is not a closed case. Paper presented at the CRONEM Conference on Nationalism and National Identity Today, University of Surrey, Guildford.
  • Nigbur, D., Brown, R., Cameron, L., Hossain, R., Landau, A. R., Le Touze, D. S., et al. (2007, May). Paying the price of integration: A longitudinal study of South Asian children's acculturation experience in British primary schools. Paper presented at the EAESP-SPSSI small group meeting on immigration, Madison Manor Boutique Hotel, Toronto.
  • Nigbur, D., Uzzell, D., Lyons, E., & Muckle, R. (2006, September). Increasing recycling through community action. Paper presented at the 19th International Conference of IAPS, Alexandria.  
  • Nigbur, D., Cameron, L., Brown, R., Hossain, R., Rutland, A., & Watters, C. (2006, June). Acculturation and intergroup relations amongst young Indian-British and Anglo-British children. Poster presented at the SPSSI Biennial Convention, Long Beach.
  • Cameron, L., Nigbur, D., Brown, R., Hossain, R., Le Touze, D. S., Rutland, A., et al. (2006, April). Acculturation, intergroup attitudes and social integration of South Asian and white British primary school children. Poster presented at the BPS Annual Conference, City Hall, Cardiff.
  • Nigbur, D., Lyons, E., & Uzzell, D. (2005, July). It's not what you do, it's why you do it: Using an extended theory of planned behaviour to predict kerbside recycling. Paper presented at the 14th General Meeting of the European Association for Experimental Social Psychology, Würzburg.
  • Nigbur, D., & Cinnirella, M. (2003, September). Being different by being British (or English): National symbols and character as arguments against European integration. Paper presented at the BPS Social Psychology Section conference, London School of Economics.
  • Nigbur, D., & Cinnirella, M. (2002, September). Self and other in space and time: Specific and non-specific intergroup and temporal comparisons in the description and evaluation of national identity. Paper presented at the BPS Social Psychology Section conference, University of Huddersfield.
  • Nigbur, D., & Cinnirella, M. (2002, March). Patriotism's evil twin? Inter-nation comparisons and their evaluation in an interview setting. Paper presented at the BPS Annual Conference, Hilton Hotel, Blackpool.
  • Nigbur, D. (2001, July). The effects of an intergroup context on criterial and correlated attributes of national identity: Rationale and selected data from England and Germany. Paper presented at the BPS PsyPAG Conference, University of Sheffield.