Rate My Professor Juliet Foster

Foster specializes in social psychology, focusing on public understandings of health problems, particularly mental health; student mental health and wellbeing; and sociocultural psychology, including social representations theory. She employs qualitative and mixed-methods research and has obtained funding from the ESRC, AHRC, and NIHR. With 44 research outputs, key publications include 'How to measure belonging in higher education: A systematic review' (Byrom, Foster, & Upsher, 2026), '"With a Little Help from My Friends”: Co-Creating Belonging in Higher Education' (Aman et al., 2026), 'Homelessness and the Language of Stigma' (Chauhan & Foster, 2025), and 'The Communicative Architecture of Stigma: Examining the Everyday Language on Homelessness' (Chauhan & Foster, 2025). She serves on editorial boards for Qualitative Health Research, Psychology, Public Policy and Law, and Papers on Social Representations; was inaugural Chair of the British Psychological Society's Education and Training Board (2019–2020); acts as Academic Lead for student mental health at King's College London; co-chairs the university's student mental health steering committee; and is an assessor for the University Mental Health Charter.