Rate My Professor Jackie Sturt

Professor Jackie Sturt serves as Head of the Division of Care in Long Term Conditions and Professor of Behavioural Medicine in Nursing in the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Palliative Care at King’s College London. A registered general and mental health nurse and behavioural scientist, she earned her Doctor of Health Science from Brunel University London in 1997, focusing on self-efficacy theory in health promotion practice, a Bachelor of Arts in Politics and Sociology from Oxford Brookes University in 1992, and a Postgraduate Diploma in Post-Compulsory Education from the University of Warwick between 2003 and 2005. Her career trajectory includes working at Warwick Medical School from 1998 to 2012, during which she held an NIHR post-doctoral fellowship from 2004 to 2008 to advance her research in diabetes interventions. From 2010 to 2012, she undertook an NHS clinical secondment to establish the Diabetes Listener service, aiding patients struggling with diabetes self-management. Additional appointments encompass Adjunct Professor at the University of Technology Sydney until 2023, Visiting Professor at Steno Diabetes Center until 2023, and Honorary Associate Professor at Warwick Medical School until 2021.

Sturt’s research specializes in developing and evaluating complex educational and psychological interventions for long-term condition self-management, with a focus on diabetes, diabetes distress, and psychosocial aspects. She co-leads the Clinical Diabetes Research Group and is Principal Investigator on the REaCH Project, assessing remote consulting’s safety and trustworthiness in Nigeria and Tanzania to enhance healthcare access in low- and middle-income countries. Key initiatives include the £3 million D-stress study to detect, treat, and prevent type 1 diabetes distress; the Women’s Wellness with Type 2 Diabetes Programme evaluating online peer support; the DOSA structured education programme for South Asians; and the LYNC project on digital communications for young people with long-term conditions. Her contributions extend to systematic reviews on diabetes distress, informing the European Association for the Study of Diabetes clinical guideline in 2025, and international consensus on ending diabetes stigma. Prominent publications comprise “Bringing an end to diabetes stigma and discrimination: an international consensus statement on evidence and recommendations” (The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, 2024), “Group-based interventions to reduce diabetes distress in adults with type 1 diabetes: A rapid realist review” (Diabetic Medicine, 2026), “The Women’s Wellness with Type 2 Diabetes Programme: Feasibility of an online peer support and goal-setting intervention for midlife women” (PLOS One, 2026), and “Impact of Type 1 diabetes on couples’ health, well-being, and relationship” (Family Relations, 2026). With 2928 citations, her scholarship influences NHS service innovations, digital health tools, and global healthcare equity. She teaches motivational interviewing, research methods, and self-management across programmes and supervises PhD students in diabetes psychosocial research.