Dr Ruth Hackett joined the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience as a Lecturer in Health Psychology in December 2019. Prior to her appointment, Ruth undertook post-doctoral work at the Department of Behavioural Science and Health, University College London (UCL). As a Research Fellow she combined an active research role with a leadership position on the MSc Health Psychology course at UCL.  

Ruth holds a PhD in Health Psychology and Epidemiology from UCL and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Ruth has delivered invited talks and lectures at City University of London, Imperial College London, University of Roehampton and St. George’s University of London.

• Psychosocial stress factors  
• Discrimination  
• Stress-related biology 
• Cardiometabolic disease 
• Ageing 
• Laboratory stress testing 
• Longitudinal studies 

Ruth's main research interest lies in understanding how psychological factors including stress influence biological functions relevant to cardiometabolic disease. Ruth is also interested in discrimination as a form of stress and as a risk factor for mental and physical illness.