Professor Turner’s interest in intergroup contact and prejudice looking at predictors and outcomes of different forms of intergroup contact in reducing prejudice, including cross-group friendships led to her involvement in a channel 4 documentary on racism in Schools. 

“Tests have revealed that children as young as six are aware of racial differences but, as a society, we do not talk about them and often take a colour-blind approach to race. Is our failure to discuss race part of the problem? This ground-breaking experiment will look at if it is possible to eradicate bias”.

Click to find out more about the documentary and the results found.

Through a mixture of language analyses and psychological experiments, this research programme investigated the narratives that populists use to influence public understandings of group identities, and whether these could be challenged. Initial research from my PhD focused on politicians and News Media, as two of the most prominent sources of populist political narratives, across three liberal democracies (UK,US, and Australia). 

Find out how this project is developing