Professor Hunter's research focuses on the psychosocial wellbeing and adjustment of people across the lifespan. At GCU, he is a member of the Research Centre for Health (ReaCH) and is an Adjunct Professor at the Graduate School of Education at the University of Western Australia. He is currently an Associate Editor at both Stigma and Health and the International Journal of Bullying Prevention.

Current research interests include violence reduction, loneliness, and mental illness stigma and these primarily involve collaborations with academic colleagues in the UK, Australia, and Canada as well as with third sector agencies such as the Mental Health Foundation and See Me.

Current postgraduate student collaborators are:

• 2025- Hui Zhang, as part of her DPsych training, is examining mental illness stigma and substance use.
• 2024- Ananya Singh and Ananyaa Rodricks Terence, both of whom are looking into mental illness stigma as part of their DPsych training.
• 2023- Ashley Brown, Lyyana Damanhoori, and Jeeva Johnson are working on DPsych projects relating to mental health stigma among minority ethnic communities in the UK.
• 2020- Rachel Taylor (PhD co-funded by the SGSSS and the Mental Health Foundation) examining children and young people's mental health, mental illness stigma experiences, and how these relate to peer-victimisation. [Lead Supervisor for Rachel: Prof Paul Flowers, University of Strathclyde]

Prof Hunter is also Co-Chair of the SHLS Research Ethics Committee (for Psychology). He is Module Lead for Advanced Research in Applied Psychology 2 and is Deputy Module Lead for Advanced Research Enquiry in Counselling Psychology 2 on the DPsych programme. He is also Deputy Module Lead for the Psychology Empirical Project module at undergraduate. He contributes to the undergraduate modules Mental Health and Wellbeing, Digital Psychology, Social Cyberpsychology, and Research Methods 1a. Finally, Prof Hunter supervises final year undergraduate research projects in Psychology.