Dr Lukas Wallrich — Birkbeck, University of London

Overview

Biography

Lukas is a researcher and lecturer in the Birkbeck Department of Organisational Psychology. Earlier in his life, he worked as a management consultant with McKinsey & Company, and then completed his PhD in Social Psychology at Goldsmiths, University of London.

At present, his main research interest is how workforce diversity can be harnessed to improve organisational performance. Apart from that, he is interested in intergroup contact, attitude change and sees himself as a proponent of Open Science practices.

Office hours

Digital office hours are by appointment. Please email me or use the booking link on Moodle.

Qualifications

PhD in Social Psychology, Goldsmiths, University of London, 2021
MA in Education (Psychology), UCL Institute of Education, 2017
BA in Politics, Psychology and Economics, University of Oxford (Merton College), 2012

Web profiles

Professional memberships

Member of the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science
Member of the Society for the Teaching of Psychology (APA Division 2)
Member of the International Society of Political Psychology

ORCID

0000-0003-2121-5177

Research

Research interests

Effects of workforce diversity on organisational success
Relationship between diversity ideologies and intergroup contact
Attitude change and media effects
Motivators and barriers to pro-social behaviour
"Big data" and natural language processing
Open research practices and replications

Research clusters and groups

Member, Diversity Research Group, Goldsmiths
Member, Contact Research Group London/South-East
Member, Equalab, Goldsmiths

Supervision and teaching

Supervision

I welcome enquiries from prospective PhD students who are interested in undertaking research in any of my areas of research interest. Please contact me by email to discuss potential research projects and supervision.

Teaching

Teaching modules

Research Project (BUOB042D7)
Consultancy and Professional Practice (BUOB044H7)
Organization and Change Perspectives (MOOP005H7)

Publications

Article

Röseler, L. and Kaiser, L. and Doetsch, C. and Klett, N. and Seida, C. and Schütz, A. and Aczel, B. and Adelina, N. and Agostini, V. and Alarie, S. and Albayrak-Aydemir, N. and Aldoh, A. and Al-Hoorie, A.H. and Azevedo, F. and Baker, B.J. and Barth, C.L. and Beitner, J. and Brick, C. and Brohmer, H. and Chandrashekar, S.P. and Chung, K.L. and Cockcroft, J.P. and Cummins, J. and Diveica, V. and Dumbalska, T. and Efendic, E. and Elsherif, M. and Evans, T. and Feldman, G. and Fillon, A. and Förster, N. and Frese, J. and Genschow, O. and Giannouli, V. and Gjoneska, B. and Gnambs, T. and Gourdon-Kanhukamwe, A. and Graham, C.J. and Hartmann, H. and Haviva, C. and Herderich, A. and Hilbert, L.P. and Holgado, D. and Hussey, I. and Ilchovska, Z.G. and Kalandadze, T. and Karhulahti, V.-M. and Kasseckert, L. and Klingelhöfer-Jens, M. and Koppold, A. and Korbmacher, M. and Kulke, L. and Kuper, N. and LaPlume, A. and Leech, G. and Lohkamp, F. and Lou, N.M. and Lynott, D. and Maier, M. and Meier, M. and Montefinese, M. and Moreau, D. and Mrkva, K. and Nemcova, M. and Oomen, D. and Packheiser, J. and Pandey, S. and Papenmeier, F. and Paruzel-Czachura, M. and Pavlov, Y.G. and Pavlović, Z. and Pennington, C.R. and Pittelkow, M.-M. and Plomp, W. and Plonski, P.E. and Pronizius, E. and Pua, A.A. and Pypno-Blajda, K. and Rausch, M. and Rebholz, T.R. and Richert, E. and Röer, J.P. and Ross, R. and Schmidt, K. and Skvortsova, A. and Sperl, M.F.J. and Tan, A.W.M. and Thürmer, J.L. and Tołopiło, A. and Vanpaemel, W. and Vaughn, L.A. and Verheyen, S. and Wallrich, Lukas and Weber, L. and Wolska, J.K. and Zaneva, M. and Zhang, Y. (2024) The replication database: documenting the replicability of psychological science. Journal of Open Psychology Data 12 (8), pp. 1-23. ISSN 2050-9863.
Wallrich, Lukas and Opara, V. and Wesołowska, M. and Barnoth, D. and Sayeh, Y. (2024) The relationship between team diversity and team performance: reconciling promise and reality through a comprehensive meta-analysis registered report. Journal of Business and Psychology ISSN 0889-3268.
Wallrich, Lukas (2022) Making diversity work: transforming assessment and selection to hire for culture-add, not culture-fit. Occupational Psychology Outlook 1, pp. 40-48. ISSN 2753-426X.
Wallrich, Lukas (2022) {{Re}} Groups of diverse problem-solvers outperform groups of highest-ability problem-solvers - most of the time. ReScience C 8 (1), ISSN 2430-3658.
Wallrich, Lukas and West, K. and Rutland, A. (2022) Valuing diversity: an undervalued mediator of intergroup contact. European Journal of Social Psychology 52 (1), pp. 160-173. ISSN 1099-0992.
Wallrich, Lukas and Palmer, S.B. and Rutland, A. (2021) Adolescents challenging discrimination: the benefits of a perspective-taking and action-planning intervention on self-efficacy. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology 31 (5), pp. 530-536. ISSN 1052-9284.
Wallrich, Lukas and West, K. and Rutland, A. (2021) Civic understanding mediates of the effect of educational tracks on voting intentions in German schools. Citizenship, Social and Economics Education 20 (2), pp. 84-102. ISSN 2047-1734.
Wallrich, Lukas and West, K. and Rutland, A. (2020) Painting all foreigners with one brush? How the salience of Muslims and refugees shapes judgements. Journal of Social and Political Psychology 8 (1), pp. 246-265. ISSN 2195-3325.