Professor Shirley Pearce CBE BA MPhil PhD is Vice-Chancellor of Loughborough University, a position she has held since January 2006, and will resign at the end of the 2011-2012 academic year. Before becoming the University's 7th Vice-Chancellor Professor Pearce was a Professor of Health Psychology at the University of East Anglia and Dean of the Institute of Health. She had also served as Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the University of East Anglia from 2001 to 2004.
Professor Pearce was educated at Norwich High School for Girls, before studying Psychology, Physiology and Philosophy at St Anne's College, Oxford University, gaining a BA in 1975. She was later awarded an MPhil in Clinical Psychology and a PhD in Psychology by the Institute of Psychiatry, University of London.
She joined the National Health Service as a Clinical Psychologist at St Mary's Hospital, London in 1977, and remained there until her appointment as lecturer then senior lecturer in Psychology at University College London.
Her move to the University of East Anglia in 1994 was in order to become the Chair of Health Psychology and the inaugural director of the School of Health Policy and Practice, becoming Dean of the Schools of Health in 1997 and leading the bid for a new medical school at UEA during this period.
Professor Pearce was made Pro Vice Chancellor for the Health and Professional Schools in 2000, before becoming Dean of the Institute of Health and Director of the Centre for Interprofessional Practice at UEA. During this time she was also a Non-executive director of Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire Strategic Health Authority and a Commissioner for the Healthcare Commission. In June 2005 she was made a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List, for services to the NHS.
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| Preceded by Professor Sir David Wallace |
Vice-Chancellor of Loughborough University 2006– |
Succeeded by Incumbent |