Georgina Randsley de Moura
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Professor Georgina Randsley de Moura is the Acting Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of Kent. A proud alumna of the university, she completed her studies with a BSc (Hons, 1999) and PhD (2004) both in Social Psychology, and an Executive MBA with distinction (2016).
Georgina is responsible for strategic leadership of the University, building a community to ensure sustainable and successful outcomes. Georgina is accountable for the academic and financial performance of the University, as well as for compliance with regulatory bodies. Georgina is also the key contact for University stakeholders and supporters, including alumni, donors, industry partners, funders, policy makers, and local, regional and national government. Georgina continues as the executive lead for equality, diversity and inclusion. She is an advocate for social inclusion and widening participation, and she champions the access to life-enhancing education for all.
Georgina is a member of the Centre for the Study of Group Processes. Her research interests focus on areas of identity, leadership, and innovation in groups and organizations. This includes studying how groups respond to leaders when they do not meet their group’s expectations. Her research also considers how individuals, groups and organizations identify and respond to leadership potential.
Primary Interests:
- Applied Social Psychology
- Group Processes
- Organizational Behavior
- Persuasion, Social Influence
- Political Psychology
- Social Cognition
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Journal Articles:
- Abrams, D., Randsley de Moura, G., Marques, J. M., & Hutchison, P. (2008). Innovation credit: When can leaders oppose their group’s norms? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 95, 662-678.
- Frings, D., Abrams, D., Randsley de Moura, G., & Marques, J.M. (2010). The effects of cost, normative support, and issue importance on motivation to persuade ingroup deviants. Group Dynamics: Theory, Research, and Practice, 14, 80-91.
- Hutchison, P., Abrams, D., & Randsley de Moura, G. (2013). Corralling the Ingroup: Deviant Derogation and Perception of Group Variability. The Journal of Social Psychology, 153(3), 334-350.
- Leicht, C., Crisp, R. J., & Randsley de Moura, G. (2013). Need for structure predicts leadership preference. Group Dynamics: Theory, Research, and Practice, 17(1), 53.
- Morris, L., Abrams, D., Randsley de Moura, G., & Durlach, P. (2003). Delaying the inevitable? The effects of "time to think" on responses to innovative product concepts. European Journal of Marketing, 10, 1440-1457.
- Randsley de Moura, G., & Abrams, D. (2013). Bribery, blackmail, and the double standard for leader transgressions. Group Dynamics: Theory, Research, and Practice, 17(1), 43.
- Randsley de Moura, G., Abrams, D., Retter, C., Gunnarsdottir, S., & Ando, K. (2009). Identification as an organizational anchor: How identification and job satisfaction combine to predict turnover intention. European Journal of Social Psychology, 39, 540-557.
- Randsley de Moura, G., Leader, T., Pelletier, J., & Abrams, D. (2008). Prospects for group processes and intergroup relations research: A review of 70 years’ progress. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 11, 575-596.
- Zagefka, H., Noor, M., Brown, R., Hopthrow, T., & Moura, G. R. (2012). Eliciting donations to disaster victims: Psychological considerations. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 15(4), 221-230.
- Zagefka, H., Noor, M., Brown, R., Randsley de Moura, G., & Hopthrow, T. (2011). Donating to disaster victims: Responses to natural and humanly caused events. European Journal of Social Psychology, 41, 353-363.
Other Publications:
- Abrams, D., Marques, J. M., Randsley de Moura, G., Hutchison, P., & Bown, N. J. (2004). The maintenance of entitativity: A subjective group dynamics model. In V. Y. Yzerbyt, C. M. Judd, & O. Corneille (Eds.), The psychology of group perception: Contributions to the study of homogeneity, entitativity, and essentialism (pp. 361-381). Hove, UK: Psychology Press.
- Abrams, D., & Randsley de Moura, G. (2002). The psychology of collective political protest. In V. C. Ottati, R. S. Tindale, J. Edwards, D. O'Connell, E. Posavac, Y. Suarez-Balcazar, L. Heath, & F. Bryant (Eds.), The Social Psychology of Politics (Vol. 5). New York: Plenum Press.
- Abrams, D., & Randsley de Moura, G. (2001). Organizational identification: Psychological anchorage and turnover. In M. A. Hogg & D. Terry (Eds.), Social identity processes in organizational contexts. Philadelphia, PA: Psychology Press.
- Abrams, D., Randsley de Moura, G., Hutchison, P., & Viki, G. T. (2005). When bad becomes good (and vice versa): Why social exclusion is not based on difference. In D. Abrams, M. A. Hogg, & J. M. Marques (Eds.), Social psychology of inclusion and exclusion (pp. 161-191). Hove, UK: Psychology Press.
- Randsley de Moura, G., Abrams, D., Marques, J.M., & Hutchison, P. (2011). Innovation Credit: When and why do group members give their leaders license to deviate from group norms? In J. Jetten & M. J. Hornsey (Eds.), Rebels in groups (pp. 238-258). Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.
Courses Taught:
- Advanced Topics in Group Processes
- Groups in Action
- The Social Psychology of Groups
Georgina Randsley de Moura
Centre for the Study of Group Processes
School of Psychology
Keynes College, University of Kent
Canterbury CT2 7NP
United Kingdom
- Phone: 44 (0)1227 823695
- Fax: 44 (0)1227 827030
