Stirling academic Professor Kate Hunt becomes Fellow of British Academy

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.”