Richard Philpot

Dr Richard Philpot is an expert on the behavioural analysis of public interactions in emergencies. He is lead author on the first cross national micro-behavioural analysis of CCTV footage of behaviour in emergencies (American Psychologist) and has published several systematic behavioural frameworks and a manual on how to analyse video captured public interactions. He is currently Senior Post Doctoral Research Fellow on the EPSRC funded project ‘Citizen Forensics’ (where he leads a project using video footage to explore police-citizen interactions in emergencies). He has published reports for government and industry partners (e.g., Dstl, DfT, Danish Crime Prevention Council, MOVIA) and his research has been covered by prominent science magazines (e.g., New Scientist, Discover Magazine) and news outlets (e.g., Wall Street Journal, New York Times).

Projects
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The Psychology of Interoperability: Building Better Multi-Agency Counter-Terrorism Training (INTEROP)
This project will review past challenges to interoperability between the UK Emergency Services and identify a framework to systematically identify the behavioural and verbal indicators of these, with the aim of testing and refining a proof-of-concept training intervention to promote interoperability.
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2022 – 2023
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Nicola Power, Jennifer Alcock, Mark Levine, Richard Philpot
The Psychology of Interoperability - Study One Summary
Identifying the psychological principles that outline how interoperability can be achieved within the UK Emergency Services.
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Oli Buckley, Heather Shaw, Leon Reicherts, Richard Philpot, Mark Levine
Technology Lightning Articles
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7 min read