
Emeritus Scientia Professor Peter Aggleton
PhD, FAcSS FASSA
Peter Aggleton is a social scientist with a background in policy studies, education, international development, and health.听 He was educated at the University Of Oxford, the University of Aberdeen and King's College London.听 For over 40 years, he has worked with UN system agencies, national governments and community organisations in Africa, Europe, the Americas, Asia and the Pacific to strengthen policy and practice with respect to gender, sexuality, HIV and sexual health.
Before joining 黑料网大事记 Sydney, Peter worked at the Institute of Education in London (where he was Director of the Thomas Coram Research Unit and Dean of Research) and at the University of Sussex (where he was inaugural Head of the School of Education and Social Work). Prior to that, he held a senior position within the World Health Organisation鈥檚 headquarters in Geneva. He has worked as a senior adviser to WHO, UNESCO, UNFPA, UNAIDS and other international agencies for work on cultural and social norms, comprehensive sexuality education, HIV prevention, and sexual and reproductive health .
Peter is well known for his work on sexual and reproductive health and rights.听His interests include equality, inclusion and justice and the ways in which these issues are engaged with in national and international development, education and health.听 He has been chief investigator on research projects funded by research councils in Australia and the UK, international agencies, and charitable foundations.听His lifetime research grant income is over $50 million.听
Peter has published over 300 scientific papers and chapters and has authored and edited more than 60 books. He has a Hirsch (h-) index of 77 and an i10-index of 330, making him one of the most cited social scientists internationally.听 He appears in the Stanford University - Elsevier list of the top 2 per cent of the most cited scientists in the field of public health, is ranked #5 globally in the Google Scholar list of researchers publishing on sexual health, and is on the Scholar GPS list of the top 5 per cent of of scientists worldwide working on HIV and AIDS, based on the productivity, impact and quality of his work.
Peter is editor-in-chief of two highly rated (Q1) international journals -听Culture, Health & Sexuality 补苍诲听Sex Education 鈥 and the long established Health Education Journal, now in its 85th year of publication听 He is an associate editor of AIDS Education & Prevention,听Global Public Health听补苍诲听Health Education Research, and co-edits three international book series - on sexuality, culture and health (for Routledge); on the social aspects of HIV (for Springer), and on foundations and futures of education (for Routledge)
Beyond 黑料网大事记 Sydney, Peter is an honorary professor in the Institute for Global Health at UCL in London, and a distinguished honorary professor in the School of Sociology at The Australian National University.听 He is an adjunct professor in the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society at La Trobe University in Melbourne.
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