Dr Lukas Wallrich — Birkbeck, University of London

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

0000-0003-2121-5177

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

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

Dissertation in Business Psychology (BUOB039D6)
Consultancy and Professional Practice (BUOB044H7)
Consultancy and Professional Practice (BUOB044H7)
Evidence-Based Professional Practice Portfolio: Performance, Talent and Reward Management (BUOB088S7)
Organization and Change Perspectives (MOOP005H7)
Selection and Assessment (MOOP006H7)

Publications

Article

Wallrich, Lukas (2022) Making diversity work: transforming assessment and selection to hire for culture-add, not culture-fit. Occupational Psychology Outlook 1, pp. 40-48. ISSN 2753-426X.
Wallrich, Lukas (2022) {{Re}} Groups of diverse problem-solvers outperform groups of highest-ability problem-solvers - most of the time. ReScience C 8 (1), ISSN 2430-3658.
Wallrich, Lukas and West, K. and Rutland, A. (2022) Valuing diversity: an undervalued mediator of intergroup contact. European Journal of Social Psychology 52 (1), pp. 160-173. ISSN 1099-0992.
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.