Professor Peter Aggleton

  • Qualifications and position:
    • MA MEd PhD FBPsS FRSPH AcSS
    • Professor in Education
  • Faculty:
    • Faculty of Children and Learning
  • Department:
    • Thomas Coram Research Unit
  • Summary:
    • My work concerns the interfaces of health, education and social well-being. I have a background in psychology, sociology, education and public health. Special interests include sexuality, sexual and reproductive health, HIV/AIDS, sex and relationships education, healthy schools, and health promotion more generally – both internationally and in the UK.
  • Teaching:
    • Health promotion, sexual and reproductive health, research methods, HIV/AIDS.
  • Research Projects:
    • Evaluation of the Global Dialogues for Sexual Health and Well-Being (Ford Foundation)
      Young people and alcohol: meanings, practices and contexts (DCSF)
      Promoting the health and wellbeing of children and young people through schools: the role of the nurse (DH)
      Young women, agency and intimacy in sexual relationships (ESRC)
  • Postgraduate Research:
    • Sexuality, sexual and reproductive health, HIV/AIDS, health education and health promotion
      Rui Baptista-Gonçalves - Sexual health and rights of HIV positive men in Portugal
      Esther Miedema - HIV and AIDS education: international discourse, national policy and classroom implementation
      Francesa Salvi - Young people's sexuality and sex education networks in Maputo, Mozambique
      Grace Spencer - Problematizing 'empowerment' and its relationship to young people's health and well-being
  • Professional Activities:
    • Editor-in Chief, Culture Health and Sexuality
      Senior Editor, Global Public Health
      Associate Editor, AIDS Education and Prevention
      Associate Editor, Health Education Research
      Member Editorial Board, International Journal of Sexual Health
      Member Editorial Board, Sex Education
      Member Editorial Board, Journal of Sociology
      Member Editorial Board, Health Education
      Member Editorial Board, Health Education Journal
      Member Editorial Board, Critical Public Health

      Visiting Professor, National Centre in HIV Social Research, University of New South Wales, Australia
      Visiting Professor, Department of General Practice and Community Medicine, University of Oslo, Norway

      Member, ESRC Research Grants Board (2005-10)
      Chair, Australian Development Grants Awards Panel (HIV/AIDS) (2008-)

      Senior Adviser, UNAIDS, UNESCO, WHO
      Member, Inter-Agency Task Team on Education and HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)
      Member, Global Advisory Group on HIV and Sex Education (UNESCO)

      Series Editor, Foundations and Futures of Education (Routledge)
      Series Editor, Sexuality, Culture and Health (Routledge)
  • Conferences/presentations:
    • Aggleton, P. (2007) Reinvigorating HIV Prevention – priorities for the future. Independent Advisory Group on HIV and AIDS (SHIAG), House of Lords, October

      Aggleton, P (2006) New Priorities for HIV Prevention in the Context of Treatment Access. Closing Plenary presentation at the 8th Congress of the European Federation of Sexology. Prague, June.

      Aggleton, P (2004) HIV Prevention among Young People: Principles for Success. Keynote address at the 18th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for AIDS Research, Shizuoka, Japan, December.
  • Personal Country Knowledge:
    • Brazil, Peru, Nigeria, South Africa, China, India, Papua New Guinea, Thailand, Vietnam, Australia, Bulgaria, UK - HIV/AIDS, sexual and reproductive health, sex education.
  • Languages Spoken:
    • Spanish (intermediate)
      Portuguese (intermediate)
      French (intermediate)
Professor Peter Aggleton

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Publications

  • Spencer, G., Maxwell, C. and Aggleton, P. (2008) What does Empowerment mean in School-Based Sex and Relationships Education?. Sex Education, 8, 3, 345 - 356.
  • Cáceres, C., Aggleton, P. and Galea, J. (2008) Sexual Diversity, Social Inclusion and HIV/AIDS. AIDS, 22 Suppl 2:S45-55.
  • Maxwell, C., Aggleton, P., Warwick, I., Yankah, E., Hill, V. and Mehmedbegović, D. (2008) Supporting children's emotional well-being and mental health in England – a review. Health Education, 4, 272-286.
  • Yankah, E. and Aggleton P. (2008) Effects and Effectiveness of Life Skills Education for HIV prevention in Young People. AIDS Education and Prevention, 20, 6, 465-85.
  • Rao Gupta, G., Parkhurst, J., Ogden, J., Aggleton, P., and Mahal, A. (2008) Structural Factors in HIV prevention. Lancet, 372 (9640), 764 – 775.
  • Henderson, K., Worth, H., Aggleton, P. & Kippax, S. (2009) Enhancing HIV prevention requires addressing the complex relationship between prevention and treatment. Global Public Health, 4, 2, 117-130.