S. Alexander Haslam

Alex Haslam is Professor of Social and Organizational Psychology and Australian Laureate Fellow at the University of Queensland. His research focuses on the study of group and identity processes in organizational, social, and clinical contexts. Together with over 200 colleagues around the world, Alex has written and edited 12 books and around 250 peer-reviewed articles on these topics. According to Google Scholar, this work has been cited over 35,000 times (h=93). Alex’s most recent books are The New Psychology of Leadership: Identity, Influence and Power (2nd ed.; with Steve Reicher & Michael Platow; Psychology Press, 2020), The New Psychology of Health: Unlocking the social cure (with Catherine Haslam, Jolanda Jetten, Tegan Cruwys & Genevieve Dingle; Routledge, 2018), and Social Psychology: Revisiting the Classic Studies (2nd ed.; with Joanne Smith, Sage, 2017). Alex is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Science and of the Association for Psychological Science. He is a former Chief Editor of the European Journal of Social Psychology and currently Associate Editor of The Leadership Quarterly. In 2005 Alex won the European Association of Social Psychology’s Kurt Lewin Medal for outstanding scientific contribution; in 2013 he won the International Leadership Association’s Outstanding Leadership Book Award for The New Psychology of Leadership; in 2016 he won the British Psychology Society Presidents’ Award for distinguished contributions to psychological knowledge; in 2017 he won the International Society for Political Psychology’s Sanford Prize for distinguished contributions to political psychology, and the Australian Psychological Society’s Workplace Excellence Award for Leadership Development (with Nik Steffens & Kim Peters); in 2018 he won the Australian Psychological Society’s Award for Distinguished Contribution to Psychological Science.