Dr Rachael Kent is a leading researcher, author, consultant, and podcast host, and a Senior Lecturer in Digital Economy & Society in the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London. She is also Co-Director of the Centre for Technology and the Body at King’s Digital Futures Institute. Her work examines how digital technologies shape mental and physical health, behaviour, and everyday life. Her research and commentary feature widely across ITV News, BBC News, Forbes, Women & Home, The Independent, Mixmag, Health & Wellbeing, and Glamour Magazine.

📘Dr Kent’s first book, The Digital Health Self: Wellness, Self-Tracking, and Social Media (Bristol University Press, 2023), offers a major analysis drawing on more than 15 years of research into how digital technologies structure wellbeing practices, self-tracking, and the pressures of self-optimisation.

🎙️She also hosts Digital Health Diagnosed: Your Dose of Tech Wellbeing, the first evidence-based podcast exploring how digital technologies impact health and offering practical tools for healthier digital habits. The podcast featured on ITV News at 6 pm.

🌐In 2020, Dr Kent founded  Dr Digital Health, a research-led consultancy delivering strategy, training, and evidence-based insight to help organisations understand how digital technologies affect mental and physical health, reduce digital saturation, and address addictive design patterns. Clients include the NHS, UK Government, Vivobarefoot, Paramount, and CBS.

⚖️ Dr Kent is also the first female class representative in UK legal history. Her landmark collective action, Kent v Apple, representing 36 million UK consumers, became the first UK competition trial against a major technology platform. The case was successfully won at trial, attaining £1.5 billion in damages for UK consumers.