Responding to the challenge of identity change

该项目旨在促进我们对促进成功适应集体变革的因素的理解，这对社会的福祉和结构至关重要。不了解这些动态的心理和经济成本是显着的，是在组织，教育，社区和国家背景下的关注的前沿。该项目将有助于阐明集体一级变化的复杂性和对这种变化的调整，为社区、组织和决策者提供好处。该项目建立在身份变化的社会认同模型（SIMIC）的基础上，这是一种有助于理解人们如何有效科普变化的理论方法;它构成了一个雄心勃勃的综合理论研究计划的基础，该计划将在新的背景下研究SIMIC预测。

This project aims to advance our understanding of factors that promote successful adjustment to collective-level change, which is imperative for well-being and the fabric of society. The psychological and financial cost of not understanding these dynamics is significant, and is at the forefront of concerns in organisational, educational, community and national contexts. This project will help elucidate the complexities of collective-level change and adjustment to such change, providing benefits to communities, organisations and policy makers. The project builds on The Social Identity Model of Identity Change (SIMIC), a theoretical approach which helps to understand how people might effectively cope with change; it forms the basis of an ambitious and integrated theoretical program of research that will examine SIMIC predictions in novel contexts.