Angie Pitt is a PhD student in the Department of Psychological Medicine at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience at King's College London. 

Following a career in media outreach and youth engagement working for BBC News, BBC Radio 1 & 1Xtra, The Guardian Foundation, Girlguiding and the Royal Horticultural Society, Angie returned to academia in 2021 prompted by the Covid-19 pandemic and its impact on the young people with whom she worked.

Angie’s MSc in Psychology at the University of Surrey focused on health psychology and qualitative methods. Her dissertation was an qualitative analysis of experiences of health-related stigma in males diagnosed with Coeliac Disease.

Her research at King's College London explores adolescent perspectives on vaccinations, using her youth engagement skills to incorporate co-production and PPIE throughout. Her systematic review of factors associated with attitudes and intention toward, and uptake of, Covid-19 vaccines in adolescents is available online.

Research interests

• Behavioural science
• Health equity
• Public health
• Protective behaviours
• Health psychology
• PPIE and co-production
• Imposter participants
• Qualitative methods 

Teaching

MSc in Mental Health Studies

• Disasters module
• Protective Behaviours lecture