John is a final year PhD candidate in social psychology at Queen’s University Belfast. He is visiting Toronto Metropolitan University on a 3-month UKRI-Globalink research placement awarded to him and Dr. Becky Choma for their project proposal looking at Canadian politicians’ rhetoric around Islam and its effects on intergroup contact.
John’s PhD thesis research at Queen’s has involved analyzing the political rhetoric of nativist populist politicians and news media through a social identity framework, as well as designing a novel social psychological intervention against negative attitudes associated with nativist populism. He is a mixed-method researcher, employing both quantitative and qualitative techniques to address research questions, with a particular focus on qualitative methods.
Select papers:
Shayegh, J., Storey, L., Turner, R. N., & Barry, J. (2021). A Social Identity Approach to How Elite Outgroups Are Invoked by Politicians and the Media in Nativist Populism. Political Psychology.
Shayegh, J., Drury, J., & Stevenson, C. (2017). Listen to the band! How sound can realize group identity and enact intergroup domination. British Journal of Social Psychology, 56(1), 181-196.