Professor Richard Crisp is a behavioural scientist, writer, and educator. He holds the position of Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellow and serves as the REF2029 Deputy Chair UOA4 for Psychology, Psychiatry & Neuroscience. Previously, he was the Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Provost at Durham University, where he also founded the Behavioural Science Programme.

Professor Crisp is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Applied Social Psychology.