Academy Fellow

Peter Aggleton is an active researcher and writer with a background in sociology, policy studies, education and health. An Emeritus UNSW Scientia Professor and a Distinguished Honorary Professor at ANU, he is well known for his analytic work on health education and health promotion, the social aspects of HIV, sexuality and gender, and sexual and reproductive health and rights.

He is the editor-in-chief of several international peer reviewed journals: Culture, Health & Sexuality (which he founded), Health Education Journal and Sex Education, and an associate editor of the journals AIDS Education & Prevention, Global Public Health and Health Education Research.

Peter has worked closely with national, international and UN system agencies for over 40 years to strengthen international and national responses to sexuality education, HIV and sexual health. His work extends understanding and appreciation of the ways in which HIV and sexuality sit within the broader field of politics, national and international development, education and sexual health.

He is one of the most published writers in his field with an h-index of 75 and an i-10 index of 330 (GS)

2018- Honorary Professor, Centre for International Health, UCL London

2018- Distinguished Honorary Professor, College of Arts and Social Sciences, The Australian National University, Canberra

2018- Emeritus Scientia Professor, UNSW Sydney

2015- Scientia Professor, Centre for Social Research in Health, UNSW Sydney

2014- Visiting Professor, UCL Institute of Education, London, UK

2014- Adjunct Professor, Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University, Melbourne

2012- Visiting Professor in Global Health, University of Sussex, UK

2012-14 Professor, Centre for Social Research in Health, UNSW Sydney

1996 - Fellow, British Psychological Society;

2000 - Fellow, Royal Anthropological Institute;

2000 - Fellow, Royal Society for Public Health;

2004 - Fellow, Academy of Social Sciences (UK)

2016 - Fellow, Royal Society of New South Wales

• Garcia-Iglesias J; Nagington M; Aggleton P, (eds.), 2024, Viral Times: Reflections on the COVID-19 and HIV Pandemics. Routledge, London
• Aggleton P; Cover R; Logie CH; Newman C; Parker R, (eds.), 2023, Routledge Handbook of Sexuality, Gender, Health and Rights. Routledge, London
• Aggleton P; Broom A; Moss J, (eds.), 2019, Practical Justice: Principles, Practice and Social Change, Routledge, London
• Aggleton P; Cover R; Leahy D; Marshall D; Rasmussen D; Aggleton P; Rasmussen ML, (eds.), 2018, Youth, Sexuality and Sexual Citizenship, Routledge, London
• Aggleton PJ; Robinson K; Albury K; Allen L; Davies C; Dyson S; Ingham R; Lamb S; Marshall D; Maxwell C; McKee A; Rasmussen ML; Rivers I, (eds.), 2016, Education and Sexualities, Routledge, London
• Aggleton P; Parker R, (eds.), 2014, Men who Sell Sex: Global perspectives, Routledge, London
• Maxwell C; Aggleton P, (eds.) 2013, Privilege, Agency and Affect: Understanding the production and effects of action, 1st, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke
• Aggleton P; Boyce P; Moore HL; Parker R, (eds.) 2012, Understanding global sexualities: New frontiers, Taylor and Francis