Director of Research
Professor Helen Haste
FBPsS, FRSA
Helen Haste is the first Director of Research for the Nestlé
Social Research Programme.
She is Professor of Psychology at the University of Bath and
Visiting Professor at Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Her research has mainly been with samples of young people.
She has a long record of publication in moral, social and
political values and on ethics and citizenship. She is
currently working on a book on citizenship and education.
Her work includes research on the interface of science and
culture, on the public image of science particularly in the
media, and on culture and metaphor. She has also been
involved extensively in research on sex roles, and social
and psychological aspects of gender, including issues in
gender and science.
She has published in popular science journals and magazines
and news media as well as extensively in the academic
literature.
Helen Haste regularly broadcasts on radio and television.
She also frequently gives public lectures, in addition to
her university work. She has been involved for over twenty
years in the British Association for the Advancement of
Science, an organisation dedicated to
making science accessible to the public, which works closely
with the media.
She is currently Chair of the BA Council, and
Vice-President. Her interest in values and citizenship is
reflected in her involvement with the International Society
of Political Psychology, of which she was President in 2002.
She is on the editorial boards of several scholarly journals
relating to values.
She directed a Nestlé Family Monitor project on Moral Values
in 1999. |
