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staff list  BackDr Sabina Hulbert

  • Job title: Senior Lecturer
  • Dept: Applied Social Sciences
  • Tel: 01227 782310
  • Campus: Canterbury
S Hulbert

Senior Lecturer in Psychology

Teaching responsibilities

  • MPSMD1PSY Introduction to Psychology
  • MPSMD1PSP Psychology in Practice (Convenor)
  • MPSMD3PSW Psychology at Work (Convenor)
  • MPSMD3PRP Psychology Research Project

Research interests

Intergroup Relations; Motivations to Group Identification; Stereotype Threat; theoretical developments and applications of Social identity Theory; effects of group commitments on school performance and job performance; role of group identification in therapy groups recovering from addiction.

Membership of professional organisations

  • European Association of Experimental Social Psychology
  • Midwestern Psychological Association
  • Promis Research Group

Academic journal reviewer for:

  • European Journal of Social Psychology
  • Group Processes and Intergroup Relations
  • Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology

Recent publications

  • Brown R., Aharpour S. & Zagefka, H. (in preparation). Comparison choices in different group contexts. Paper to be submitted to the European Journal of Social Psychology.
  • Capozza, D., Brown, R.J., Aharpour, S. & Falvo, R. (2006). A comparison of motivation theories of identification. In D. Capozza & R. Brown (Ed.), Social Identities: Motivational, Emotional and Cultural influences. Psychology Press, Hove.
  • Aharpour S. and Brown R. J. (2002). Functions of group identification: An exploratory analysis. International Review of Social Psychology, 15, 157-186.

Conference presentations

  • Aharpour S. and Brown R. (2001). Models of organisational commitment applied to educational settings: How group experiences are part of good school performances. Paper presented at the BPS centenary conference. Glasgow 28-31 March 2001.
  • Aharpour S. and Brown R. (2000). Group identification and ingroup bias: A controversial relationship. Paper presented at the BPS Social Psychology Annual Conference, Nottingham 6-8 September 2000.
  • Hinkle S. W. and Aharpour S. (1999). Group Orientations, Types of Identities, and Functions of Identification: Implications for Group and Intergroup Processes. Paper presented at the 12th General Meeting of the European Association of Experimental Social Psychology, Oxford, 6-11th July 1999.
  • Aharpour S. and Brown R. J. (1998) A specific example of attitudinal functions: an experimental manipulation of functions of group identification. Paper presented at the BPS Social Psychology Annual Conference, Canterbury, 21st-23rd September 1998.
  • Aharpour S. and Brown R. J. (1997) Functions of social identification: Group differences and their implications for intergroup attitudes. Paper presented at the BPS Social Psychology Annual Conference, Brighton 19-21 September 1997.
  • Hinkle S. W and Aharpour S. (1997). Cultural differences in the meanings of group identification. Paper presented at the 5th Workshop on Social Identity Theory, Munster 17-19 March 1997.