Miles Hewstone is a British social psychologist who is well known for his work on social relations.
He graduated from the University of Bristol in 1978 and then moved to the University of Oxford from which he obtained a D.Phil. in social psychology in 1981. He pursued post-doctoral work at the University of Tübingen, Germany from which he obtained a Habilitation in 1986. He then undertook further work with Serge Moscovici (in Paris) and Wolfgang Stroebe (in Tübingen).
He held chairs in social psychology at the University of Bristol, University of Mannheim, Germany, and Cardiff University before taking up a chair at the University of Oxford where he was also a Fellow of New College. He has been a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University.
Awards
- British Psychological Society’s Spearman Medal
- Fellow of the British Psychological Society
- Fellow of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology
- Fellow of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues
- Fellow of the British Academy
- Fellow of the Academy of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences
- Honorary Fellow of the British Psychological Society.
- British Psychological Society, Presidents’ Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychological Knowledge
Professional Experience
He has published widely in the field of experimental social psychology. His major topics of research have been: attribution theory, social cognition, social influence, stereotyping and intergroup relations, and intergroup conflict. His current work centres on the reduction of intergroup conflict, via intergroup contact, stereotype change and crossed categorization.
He is a former editor of the British Journal of Social Psychology, and co-founding editor of the European Review of Social Psychology.