Dr Lukas Wallrich
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Overview
Overview
Biography
Lukas is a researcher and lecturer in the Birkbeck Department of Organisational Psychology. Earlier in his life, he worked as a management consultant with McKinsey & Company, and then completed his PhD in Social Psychology at Goldsmiths, University of London.
At present, his main research interest is how workforce diversity can be harnessed to improve organisational performance. Apart from that, he is interested in intergroup contact, attitude change and sees himself as a proponent of Open Science practices.
Office hours
Digital office hours are by appointment. Please email me or use the booking link on Moodle.
Qualifications
- PhD in Social Psychology, Goldsmiths, University of London, 2021
- MA in Education (Psychology), UCL Institute of Education, 2017
- BA in Politics, Psychology and Economics, University of Oxford (Merton College), 2012
Web profiles
Professional memberships
Member of the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science
Member of the Society for the Teaching of Psychology (APA Division 2)
Member of the International Society of Political Psychology
ORCID
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Research
Research
Research interests
- Effects of workforce diversity on organisational success
- Relationship between diversity ideologies and intergroup contact
- Attitude change and media effects
- Motivators and barriers to pro-social behaviour
- "Big data" and natural language processing
- Open research practices and replications
Research clusters and groups
- Member, Diversity Research Group, Goldsmiths
- Member, Contact Research Group London/South-East
- Member, Equalab, Goldsmiths
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Supervision and teaching
Supervision and teaching
Supervision
I welcome enquiries from prospective PhD students who are interested in undertaking research in any of my areas of research interest. Please contact me by email to discuss potential research projects and supervision.
Teaching
Teaching modules
- Research Project (Organizational Psychology) (BUOB042D7)
- Consultancy and Professional Practice (BUOB044H7)
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Publications
Publications
Article
- Wallrich, Lukas and Palmer, S.B. and Rutland, A. (2021) Adolescents challenging discrimination: the benefits of a perspective-taking and action-planning intervention on self-efficacy. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology 31 (5), pp. 530-536. ISSN 1052-9284.
- Wallrich, Lukas and West, K. and Rutland, A. (2021) Civic understanding mediates of the effect of educational tracks on voting intentions in German schools. Citizenship, Social and Economics Education 20 (2), pp. 84-102. ISSN 2047-1734.
- Wallrich, Lukas and West, K. and Rutland, A. (2020) Painting all foreigners with one brush? How the salience of Muslims and refugees shapes judgements. Journal of Social and Political Psychology 8 (1), pp. 246-265. ISSN 2195-3325.