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  • Job title: Senior Lecturer
  • Dept: Applied Social Sciences
  • Tel: 01227 767700 ext 3915
  • Campus: Canterbury
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Senior Lecturer in Psychology

Teaching responsibilities

  • MPSMD1PSY Introduction to Psychology
  • MPSMD3PCP Psychology in Critical Perspective (Convenor)
  • MPSMD3PRP Psychology Research Project
  • MPSMD3SPC Applied Social Psychology of Group Conflict (Convenor)

Research interests

I am a social psychologist pursuing research on various aspects of intergroup relations:

Intergroup Competitive Victimhood Following Violent Conflicts:

I have made theoretical and empirical contributions to understanding and resolving intergroup conflict in divided societies, such as Northern Ireland, the Middle East and Chile. In particular, I have devoted a great deal of my working hours to developing and studying the notion of Intergroup Competitive Victimhood. It refers to the efforts of individuals involved in violent conflicts to establish that one group has suffered more than the other group. This motivation stems from groups' general tendency to compete with each other, along with the deep sense of victimization resulting from conflicts. Such contributions have been also informed by my applied work experience with local communities in Northern Ireland and my experience as conflict mediator.

Intergroup Helping (monetary donations):

My second research area revolves around understanding why we choose to help one group and not the other, given that both may be in need of help (e.g., preference of charity donations to Tsunami affected victims versus victims of conflict in Sudan).

The Intergroup Relations between Smokers and Non-smokers and Its Impact on Intentions to Quit Smoking:

Based on PhD-supervision projects.

Intergroup Relations between the Able-bodied and the Disable:

Based on PhD-supervision projects.
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PhD applications and supervision

Although above research areas reflect my current research interests, I am willing to expand and adapt my research focus to the particular research interests of potential PhD candidates.

I supervise two PhD students: Miss Caroline Wood (thesis submitted) and Mr Mark Carew.

Recent publications

  • Noor, M., Shnabel, N., Halabi, S., & Nadler, A. (accepted). When suffering begets suffering: The psychology of competitive victimhood between adversarial groups in violent conflicts. Personality and Social Psychology Review.
  • Noor, M. (2011). Rebels with a psychological cause. The Psychologist, 24, 398-399
  • Kosic, A., Noor, M., & Mannetti, L. (2011). The propensity toward reconciliation among young people in Northern Ireland and Croatia: The role of conflict management styles within the family, Group Process Intergroup Relations, Aug, 1-17
  • Zagefka, H., Noor, M., Brown, R., Randsley de Moura, G. & Hopthrow, T. (2011). Donating to disasters victims: Responses to natural and humanly caused events. European Journal of Social Psychology, 41, 353-363
  • Gonzalez, R., Manzi, J. & Noor, M. (2011). Intergroup forgiveness and reparation in Chile: The role of identity and intergroup emotion. In L. R. Tropp & R. Mallett (Eds.), Beyond prejudice reduction: Pathways to positive intergroup relations (pp.221 – 240). Washington D.C.: Psychology Press.
  • Noor, M., Brown, R., Taggart, L., Fernandez, A. & Coen, S. (2010). Intergroup identity perceptions and their implications for intergroup forgiveness: The Common Ingroup Identity Model and its efficacy in the field. Irish Journal of Psychology, 31, 151-170
  • Noor, M., Brown, J. R & Prentice, G. (2008). Precursors and mediators of intergroup reconciliation in Northern Ireland: a new model. Journal of British Social Psychology, 47, 481 – 495.
  • Noor, M., Brown, J. R., Gonzalez, R, Manzi, J & Lewis, C. A. (2008). On positive psychological outcomes; what helps groups with a history of conflict to forgive and reconcile with each other? Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 34, 819 – 832.   

  • Noor, M., Brown, J. R., & Prentice, G. (2008). Prospects for intergroup reconciliation: Social psychological predictors of intergroup forgiveness and reparation in Northern Ireland and Chile. In A. Nadler, T. Malloy & J. D. Fisher (Eds.), Social Psychology of Inter-group Reconciliation: From violent conflict to peaceful co-existence - going beyond victimization, guilt and distrust. (pp. 97 – 114). Oxford: Oxford UniversityPress. 

  • Noor, M. (2011). Demanding Freedom. Inspire Magazine, Summer, 8 - 11. 

Professional Awards

Recipient of 2010 Early Career Award of the Society for the Study of Peace, Conflict, and Violence, Peace Psychology Division of the American Psychological Association.