University of Stirling health expert Professor Kate Hunt has been made a Fellow of the British Academy.
Professor Hunt received the prestigious honour for her contribution to public and behavioural health.
Based at Stirling’s Institute for Social Marketing and Health (ISMH), Professor Hunt has a long-standing interest in inequalities in health and in gender and health. Her research in recent years has focused on the development and evaluation of public health interventions and policy, including smoke-free prison policies, the impact of the COVID pandemic on gambling behaviour, people’s attitudes to vaccination, and the health and fitness of football fans.
Professor Hunt joined the University of Stirling in 2018, where she is Professor in Behavioural Sciences and Health at the ISMH. A graduate of the University of Oxford and the University of Glasgow, she is an Honorary Professor of the University of Glasgow and of Curtin University, Australia. She is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
Professor Hunt is one of 86 Fellows recently nominated at the British Academy, a forum for debate and engagement for the world’s leading minds in humanities and social sciences, as well as a funding body for research. She said: “I’m delighted to receive this honour and to join the more than 1600 Fellows of the British Academy. I look forward to sharing my expertise and passion for public health and to engage with some of the world’s leading minds in social sciences and the humanities.”
Professor in Behavioural Sciences and Health
I look forward to sharing my expertise and passion for public health and to engage with some of the world’s leading minds in social sciences and the humanities.
Professor Niamh Fitzgerald, Director of the ISMH at the University of Stirling, said: “Huge congratulations to Kate on such a well-deserved accolade. This Fellowship recognises the highly important work she continues to do, and the influence she has, in the fields of behavioural and public health, as well as her contribution to the world-leading research being carried out at ISMH.”
Welcoming the Fellows, President of the British Academy Professor Julia Black said: "It is with great pleasure that we welcome yet another outstanding cohort to the Academy’s Fellowship. The scope of research and expertise on display across our newly elected UK, Corresponding and Honorary Fellows shows the breadth and depth of knowledge and insight held by the British Academy and which we work hard to harness to help shape the world.”