Professor Christine Hallett is Principal & Vice-Chancellor of the University of Stirling in Scotland. Christine Hallett has also been Professor of Social Policy at the University of Stirling since 1995.

Born in 1949, Christine Hallett graduated from the University of Cambridge in 1970 and was awarded a PhD in Social Policy from the University of Loughborough in 1994.

On leaving Cambridge, she joined the Civil Service, working in London in the Department of Health and Social Security. Christine Hallett then held academic posts at the Universities of Oxford, Keele, Western Australia and Leicester.

Professor Hallett’s research has been principally concerned with social policy analysis in the areas of children and young people (juvenile justice, child welfare and child protection); the personal social services; women and social policy; and participation in social welfare.

Professor Hallett was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2002. She has served on a wide range of boards and committees, and has been a Member of the Board of the Scottish Children’s Reporter Administration. She is chair of the Board of Trustees of UKCOSA, the Council for International Education.

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