Glynis Breakwell

Dame Glynis Marie Breakwell, DBE, DL, FRSA, FAcSS (born 26 July 1952) is the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Bath in Bath, England. She is one of Europe's leading social psychologists and in January 2014 was listed in the Science Council's list of '100 leading UK practising scientists'.^[1] Breakwell was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2012 New Year Honours for services to higher education.^[2] She is a Deputy Lieutenant of the County of Somerset.^[3]

Education

• University of Leicester (BA)
• University of Strathclyde (MSc)
• University of Bristol (PhD)
• University of Oxford (MA, DSc)

Academic career

• 1976-78 Lecturer in social psychology, University of Bradford
• 1978-82 Prize Fellow in social psychology, Nuffield College, Oxford
• 1978 BPS Young Social Psychologist Award
• 1984 Associate Fellow
• 1987 Fellow
• 1993 Myers Award
• 1995-99 Member Social Psychology Section Committee (Chair 1997-99)
• 1978 MA (by special resolution) University of Oxford
• 2006 Honorary Fellow of the British Psychological Society
• 2014 Science Council list of 100 leading UK practising Scientists

University of Surrey

• 1981-87 Lecturer in social psychology
• 1987-88 Reader
• 1991-2001 Professor of Psychology
• 1990-95 Head of Department of Psychology
• 1994-95 Pro Vice-Chancellor (Staff Development and Continuing Education)
• 1995-2001 Head of School of Human Sciences

University of Bath

• 2001–present Vice-Chancellor, University of Bath

Shandong University, China

• Honorary Professor

Current appointments

• Director, Student Loans Company (SLC)^[4]
• Director, Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS)^[5]
• Director, Universities UK (UUK)^[6]
• Chair, UUK Funding and Management Policy Committee
• Member of the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), Leadership, Governance and Management Committee^[7]
• Council Member of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)^[8]
• Chair of ESRC Research Committee^[9]
• Board member of the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education. (Chair Research Panel)
• Governor, Cheltenham Ladies College^[10]
• Director of the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education

Publications

• Social Work: The Social Psychological Approach (with C. Rowett, 1982)
• The Quiet Rebel (1985)
• Coping with Threatened Identities (1986)
• Facing Physical Violence (1989)
• Interviewing (1990)
• Social Psychology of Political and Economic Cognition (ed. 1991)
• Managing Violence at Work: Course Leader's Guide (with C. Rowett, 1992)
• Managing Violence at Work (Workbook; with C. Rowett, 1992)
• Careers and Identities (jointly, 1992)
• Social Psychology of Identity and the Self Concept (ed. 1992)
• Empirical Approaches to Social Representations (with D.V. Canter, 1993)
• Basic Evaluation Methods (with L. Millward, 1995)
• Research Methods in Psychology (with S. Hammond and C. Fife-Schaw, 1995, 4th edn 2012)
• Changing European Identities: Social Psychological Analyses of Change (jointly ed. with E. Lyons, 1996)
• Coping with Aggressive Behaviour (1997)
• Doing Social Psychology Research (ed. 2004)
• The Psychology of Risk (2007, 2nd edn 2014)
• Identity Process Theory: identity, social action and social change (2014)

References

External links

• University of Bath profile: Professor Dame Glynis Breakwell
• Full list of publications by Breakwell (University of Bath website)
• Debrett's profile