Sammyh Khan is a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Psychology at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), where he is based during the Autumn 2026 semester as part of a Teaching Sabbatical funded by the Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education (STINT). His home institution is Örebro University, Sweden, where he is Associate Professor (Docent) and recently served as Head of the Division of Psychology.

He holds a PhD from the Centre for Applied Cross Cultural Research at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Before joining Örebro University in 2020, he was Lecturer and subsequently Senior Lecturer at the University of Keele, and previously held research fellowships at the University of Exeter, the University of St Andrews, and the University of Dundee, United Kingdom.

His research lies at the intersections of cultural, social, political, and health psychology, with a particular focus on how social identities and shared meanings shape beliefs, behaviour, intergroup relations, health, and wellbeing. His work draws primarily on the social identity approach and social representations theory and examines topics including nationalism and political identity, group processes and intergroup relations, collective participation, and health behaviours and outcomes.

Methodologically, his research combines quantitative and qualitative approaches, with particular expertise in survey research and multivariate and latent variable statistics.

He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Asian Association of Social Psychology and serves as Co-Editor-in-Chief of the British Journal of Social Psychology and Senior Editorial Advisor for the Asian Journal of Social Psychology.

Social identity and self-categorisation; social representations and shared meanings; group processes and intergroup relations; nationalism and political identity; collective participation; cultural and cross-cultural psychology; social identity, health, and wellbeing.