Stephen Reicher is currently Professor of Psychology at the University of St. Andrews and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

He studied in Bristol with Henri Tajfel and John Turner and was part of the group that developed self-categorisation theory. He has some 130 publications (including five books) covering such phenomena as crowd behaviour, intergroup conflict, leadership and national identity. He is particularly interested in how activists and politicians construct social categories in order to shape mass mobilizations. This work has a strong interdisciplinary focus and he is currently collaborating with sociologists, political scientists, social anthropologists and historians.

He has been Editor of the British Journal of Social Psychology, Associate Editor of the Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology and serves on the Editorial Boards of the British Journal of Social Psychology, the European Journal of Social Psychology and Group Processes and Intergroup Relations. He has been Vice-President of ADRIPS, the French language international psychology association.

Apart from regular attendance at ISPP conferences and publication in Political Psychology, he led one of the three groups of doctoral students in the first European Summer School in Warsaw, he has been on the junior awards committee and helped select the programme for the 2005 conference. "I believe that ISPP must expand both internationally and in the scope of its disciplinary, theoretical and methodological approaches. In particular we must focus on the next generations of scholars. If elected, I will strive, as a governing council member, to achieve these goals."

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