Kate Fox, co-director of SIRC, is a social anthropologist and bestselling author of popular social science books. She is also a Fellow of the Institute for Cultural Research.
Kate’ work involves research, publications, lectures and broadcasts on many aspects of human behaviour and social relations, including: social and cultural aspects of drinking; flirting and courtship; beauty and body-image; gossip; aggression, disorder and violence; young people’s attitudes and habits; individualism; the social impact of mobile phones; sex differences in risk taking; social aspects of horseracing; health scares and other health issues; celebrations; the psychology of smell and scent; manners and etiquette; the English national character; the meaning of chips.
Kate’s most recent book is the bestseller 'Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour', published by Hodder & Stoughton in 2004, which has already sold a quarter of a million copies, and is being translated into Chinese, Polish and Russian.
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