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Social Sciences and Humanities
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2026

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Social Sciences and Humanities

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92
Citations
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World Ranking
165
National Ranking
27

Medicine

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92
Citations
26711
World Ranking
11431
National Ranking
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2017 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Overview

Kate Hunt is affiliated with the University of Stirling in the United Kingdom and has a scholarly focus concentrated within the field of Medicine. Their research spans multiple subfields including Physiology, Clinical Psychology, General Health Professions, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Sociology and Political Science.

Their work covers a range of main topics, notably Physical Activity and Health, Homelessness and Social Issues, Smoking Behavior and Cessation, Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet, Gambling Behavior and Treatments, Behavioral Health and Interventions, and Eating Disorders and Behaviors.

Kate Hunt has contributed to research articles published in various venues, with frequent publications in:

  • BMJ Open
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • European Journal of Public Health
  • BMC Public Health
  • Public Health Research

Among their recent papers are:

  • "Selling second best: how infant formula marketing works," 2020, published in Globalization and Health
  • "Understanding the mental health and wellbeing needs of police officers and staff in Scotland," 2020, published in Police Practice and Research
  • "Scale-Up and Scale-Out of a Gender-Sensitized Weight Management and Healthy Living Program Delivered to Overweight Men via Professional Sports Clubs: The Wider Implementation of Football Fans in Training (FFIT)," 2020, published in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • "National survey of attitudes towards and intentions to vaccinate against COVID-19: implications for communications," 2021, published in BMJ Open
  • "The impact of the initial Covid-19 lockdown upon regular sports bettors in Britain: Findings from a cross-sectional online study," 2021, published in Addictive Behaviors

Their collaboration network includes frequent coauthors such as Cindy M. Gray, Ashley Brown, Helen Sweeting, Evangelia Demou, and Alice MacLean. These partnerships reflect ongoing joint work in their areas of study.

Kate Hunt was awarded the Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2017, indicating recognition within the academic community.

Best Publications

  • 'It's caveman stuff, but that is to a certain extent how guys still operate': men's accounts of masculinity and help seeking.

    Rosaleen O’Brien;Kate Hunt;Graham Hart

  • Gender differences in health: are things really as simple as they seem?

    Sally Macintyre;Kate Hunt;Helen Sweeting

  • Rethinking the patient: using Burden of Treatment Theory to understand the changing dynamics of illness.

    Carl R. May;David T. Eton;Kasey Boehmer;Katie Gallacher

  • ‘Live to work’ or ‘work to live’? A qualitative study of gender and work–life balance among men and women in mid-life

    Carol Emslie;Kate Hunt

  • Do men consult less than women? An analysis of routinely collected UK general practice data

    Yingying Wang;Kate Hunt;Irwin Nazareth;Nick Freemantle

  • Men's accounts of depression: reconstructing or resisting hegemonic masculinity?

    Carol Emslie;Damien Ridge;Sue Ziebland;Kate Hunt

  • Long-term surveillance of mortality and cancer incidence in women receiving hormone replacement therapy

    K Hunt;M Vessey;K McPherson;M Coleman

  • Do women 'over-report' morbidity? Men's and women's responses to structured prompting on a standard question on long standing illness.

    Sally Macintyre;Graeme Ford;Kate Hunt

  • Gender Inequalities in Health

    Ellen Annandale;Kate Hunt

  • A gender-sensitised weight loss and healthy living programme for overweight and obese men delivered by Scottish Premier League football clubs (FFIT): a pragmatic randomised controlled trial

    Kate Hunt;Sally Wyke;Cindy M Gray;Annie S Anderson

  • Complementary and alternative medicine use in England: results from a national survey.

    Katherine Jane Hunt;Helen F Coelho;Barbara Wider;Rachel Perry

  • Mortality in a cohort of long‐term users of hormone replacement therapy: An updated analysis

    K Hunt;M Vessey;K McPherson

  • Do housing tenure and car access predict health because they are simply markers of income or self esteem? A Scottish study.

    Sally Macintyre;Anne Ellaway;Geoff Der;Graeme Ford

  • Taking account of context in population health intervention research: guidance for producers, users and funders of research

    Peter Craig;Erica Di Ruggiero;Katherine L. Frohlich;Eric Mykhalovskiy

  • Socio-economic Position, Gender and Health: How Do They Interact?

    Sally MacIntyre;Kate Hunt

  • Self-managing and managing self: practical and moral dilemmas in accounts of living with chronic illness:

    Anne Townsend;Sally Wyke;Kate Hunt

  • Blood pressure reactions to stress and the prediction of future blood pressure: effects of sex, age, and socioeconomic position.

    Douglas Carroll;Christopher Ring;Kate Hunt;Graeme Ford

  • Managing multiple morbidity in mid-life: a qualitative study of attitudes to drug use

    Anne Townsend;Kate Hunt;Sally Wyke

  • Masculinity, femininity and sex: an exploration of their relative contribution to explaining gender differences in health

    Ellen Annandale;Kate Hunt

  • Do women consult more than men? A review of gender and consultation for back pain and headache

    Kate Hunt;Joy Adamson;Catherine Hewitt;Irwin Nazareth

Frequent Co-Authors

Sally Wyke
Sally Wyke University of Glasgow
Helen Sweeting
Helen Sweeting University of Glasgow
Carol Emslie
Carol Emslie Glasgow Caledonian University
Sally Macintyre
Sally Macintyre MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit
Geoff Der
Geoff Der University of Glasgow
Peter Bower
Peter Bower University of Manchester
Michaela Benzeval
Michaela Benzeval University of Essex
Julia Addington-Hall
Julia Addington-Hall University of Southampton
Patrick West
Patrick West University of Glasgow
Douglas Carroll
Douglas Carroll University of Birmingham

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