by Manon van Huffelen | Jul 1, 2025 | Blog
By Julie Carlier Every large festival, city celebration, sporting event, or mass protest has them: crowds. Young and old, religious and non-religious, participating for the sport, music, or simply the atmosphere. Recent research by Gu, et al. (2025) offers new...
by Manon van Huffelen | Jun 24, 2025 | Blog
By Eszter Hollósy, Intern at ESI Organizing safe events goes beyond fences and regulations. Research reveals that crowd psychology, especially the social identity approach (SIA), offers transformative benefits, backed by real-world applications, including Roskilde...
by Kate | Sep 27, 2023 | News
Doctor and epidemiologist Esther Croes, project leader of Monitor Drug Incidents, reflects on the medical consequences of ecstasy use in several blogs this summer. Part 1. Death, horrible and unpredictable Despite the rain this summer, the festival season is in full...
by Manon Gijbels | Jul 6, 2023 | News
A blog by Roderick van Gelder I’m very honoured to be presenting at the inaugural Venue Safety & Security Exchange on 12th-13th July in Sydney. I will be speaking on Wednesday 12th July about the use of the Swiss Cheese Model in Crowd Management. This approach...
by Manon Gijbels | Jun 29, 2023 | News
Prof. Dr. John Drury and his team have been commissioned by Live Nation to investigate how post-COVID behavioural change can be explained, and what an event organizer can do to encourage self-reliant and self-correcting behaviour among eventgoers. In a webinar...
