Rate My Professor Juliet Foster

Professor Juliet Foster is Professor of Psychology and Dean of Education at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN), King's College London, within the Department of Psychology and School of Mental Health & Psychological Sciences. She joined the Psychology Department as Deputy Dean of Education in October 2018 and was appointed Dean of Education in February 2020. Prior to King's, she served as Senior Tutor and Senior Lecturer at the University of Cambridge for many years. Her qualifications include a PhD in Psychology from the University of Cambridge (2002), titled 'The social representations of mental health problems held by clients of the mental health services'; an MSc in Social Psychology from the London School of Economics & Political Science (1998); and an MA in Social and Political Sciences (Psychology) from the University of Cambridge (1996). She received the British Psychological Society Social Psychology Section Award for the Most Outstanding PhD in 2002.

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.