RESEARCH FUNDING
(total awarded: £90,057.21)
FUNDING SCHEME OUTPUTS
2023- 2024
British Academy/Leverhulme, Small Grant Award (£9, 767.80, PI)
Title: The world is an unjust place: The impact of personal adversity on belief in conspiracy theories
On-going
2023 - 2024
University of Nottingham, QR-PSF funding (£25,340.71, PI)
Title: Inequality, immigrant conspiracy beliefs and anti-immigration sentiment
A policy-driven project working with Social Justice Ireland
On-going
2020-2021
Not- Equal, funded through Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (£40,000, Co-I)
Title: Tackling Fake News via Fake People: Co-creating a toolkit to help young people recognise fake news
Journal article: Skipper, Y., Jolley, D., & Reddington, J. (under review). "“But wait, that isn’t real”: A proof-of-concept study evaluating ‘Project Real’, a co-created intervention which helps young people to spot fake news online. British Journal of Developmental Psychology. You can access the article here.
You can find some information about the project here.
2018- 2019
British Academy/Leverhulme, Small Grant Award (£9, 588, PI)
Title: Measuring adolescents’ beliefs in conspiracy theories: Development and validation of a new questionnaire
Journal article: Jolley, D., Douglas, K. M., Skipper, Y., Thomas, E., & Cookson, D. (in press). Measuring adolescents’ beliefs in conspiracy theories: Development and validation of the Adolescent Conspiracy Beliefs Questionnaire (ACBQ). British Journal of Developmental Psychology. You can access an open copy here.
News article: Jolley, D., Douglas, K., & Skipper, Y. (2021). Conspiracy theories start to take hold at age 14, study suggests. The Conversation.
You can find some information on the project here.
2017
British Psychological Society, Research Assistantship Award (£1, 800, PI)
Title: Examining the relationship between conspiracy theories and intentions to engage in everyday crime
Journal article: Jolley, D., Douglas, K. M., Leite, A., & Schrader, T. (2019). Belief in conspiracy theories and intentions to engage in everyday crime. British Journal of Social Psychology. doi: 10.1111/bjso.12311. You can access an open copy here.
2016-2017
Staffordshire University, QR Small Grant Award (£3, 560.70, PI)
Title: Conspiracy theories and prejudice
Journal article: Jolley, D., Meleady, R., & Douglas, K. M. (2020). Exposure to intergroup conspiracy theories promotes prejudice which spreads across groups. British Journal of Psychology. You can access an open copy here.
News article: Jolley, D. & Douglas, K. (2019). Conspiracy theories fuel prejudice towards minority groups. The Conversation.
PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT FUNDING
(total awarded: £10,623.04)
2023: University of Nottingham, QR-PSF funding (£7,219.04, PI)
Title: Notts Psych Pod
2019: ESRC Festival of Social Sciences (£1000, Joint Co-I)
Title: Being a Social Scientist (aimed at local A-level students)
2019: ESRC Festival of Social Sciences (£260, Joint Co-I)
Title: Digital World and Me (aimed at the local community)
2019: ESRC Festival of Social Sciences (£250, Joint Co-I)
Title: Psychology Goes to Town (aimed at local families)
2018: Winner of June’s I’m a Scientist, Society Zone (received £500 outreach funds)
2017: ESRC Festival of Social Sciences (£947, Joint Co-I)
Title: Being a Social Scientist (aimed at local A-level students)
2017: ESRC Festival of Social Sciences (£447, Joint Co-I)
Title: Teaching research the fun way (aimed at local A-level Psychology teachers)