Dr. Begeny is a Research Fellow in Social and Organisational Psychology at the University of Exeter. He has a Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

Chris examines several topics related to diversity, group dynamics, and social justice. He regularly works in partnership with non-academic organisations, both as a research collaborator and as a consultant.

Among other topics, he examines:

• How individuals perceive and react to growing diversity in their own profession. 
• Why organisations need to foster more than diversity and inclusion (a call to go beyond “D&I”).
• How women’s everyday experiences at work shape their self-concept and career ambitions.
• What it means to be treated fairly in groups, and why fair treatment is important but insufficient.
• The importance of not only having role models, but the opportunity to be one.
• Collective approaches to combatting the “impostor syndrome”.
• How feeling respected in groups affect individuals’ mental and physiological stress.
• How positive interactions with members of one's own gender, racial, ethnic or sexual minority group. can shape mental health, vigilance to discrimination, and motivation for collective action.
• His research specialisms include diversity, equity and inclusion, fair treatment and respect, status and social hierarchies, bias and discrimination, stereotypes and stigma, stress and mental health amongst others.