Professor Juliet Foster has been Dean of Education at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience at King's College London since February 2020, having joined the Psychology Department as Deputy Dean of Education in October 2018. Prior to that she spent many years at the University of Cambridge, as both a Senior Tutor and Senior Lecturer.

Juliet is a social psychologist whose work focuses on public understandings of health problems, in particular of mental health; she also undertakes research focused on student mental health and wellbeing. She draws on theories from sociocultural psychology and is an important part of the international community of scholars working on social representations theory.

She specialises in qualitative and mixed methods research and has received funding from the ESRC, AHRC and NIHR, among others. Juliet is the Academic Lead for King’s College London on student mental health and well-being, and co-chairs the University’s Steering Committee on this topic.

Juliet frequently works with Student Minds, the UK student mental health charity, and is an Assessor for the University Mental Health Charter. She was one of the commissioners on the UPPF Student Futures Commission, and was the inaugural Chair of the Education and Training Board of the British Psychological Society; she also sat on the Board of Educational Affairs for the European Federation of Psychologists’ Associations.

She is currently on the Editorial Board for Qualitative Health Research, and has also been an Associate Editor of both Papers on Social Representations and Psychology, Public Policy and Law.