Professor Stephen Sutton
Stephen Sutton is Emeritus Professor of Behavioural Science, University of Cambridge, UK.
He studied social psychology at the London School of Economics and computer science at City University. He received his PhD from the University of London in 1981 for research on the effects of fear appeals. Before moving to Cambridge in 2001, he held posts at the Institute of Psychiatry (King’s College London) and University College London.
His research programme at Cambridge focused on the development and evaluation of behaviour change interventions for smoking cessation, physical activity, diet and medication adherence, using both face-to-face and digital approaches.
Among other organisations, he has served on National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) and UK Medical Research Council (MRC) committees and an All-Party Parliamentary Inquiry and has advised the World Health Organisation (WHO), the US National Cancer Institute and Google UK. He has held Visiting Professorships at several universities in Europe and Australia.
His most widely cited publications relate to social cognition models, the prediction of intentions and behaviour, stage theories of health behaviour and the effects of fear-arousing communications.
His main current research activity involves analysing and writing up data collected as part of a £2.2 million NIHR Programme Grant on Medication Adherence on which he was the Principal Investigator.
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