Professor Derek Rutter

Emeritus Professor of Health Psychology
Email
d.r.rutter@kent.ac.uk
Professor Derek Rutter

About

Derek is an Emeritus Professor of Health Psychology in the School of Psychology.

Research interests

Health beliefs and health behaviour; social inequalities in health; optimism and self-regulation in health behaviours; communications in medicine; psychosocial interventions in acute and chronic illness.

Supervision

Not currently available for PhD supervision  
Past research students
  • Christos Mitsakis: Humour and health: Investigating the specificity hypothesis and possible mechanisms
  • Sue Thompson: Health adherence behaviour

Professional

Grants and Awards
2003-2006D R Rutter, L Quine and L Steadman
NHS Breast Screening Programme
Field trial of an intervention to increase breast screening uptake		£40,000
2002-2005L Quine, D R Rutter and L Steadman
Economic and Social Research Council
Understanding adherence to anti-hypertensive medication: a theory based approach		£149,000
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