Shirley Pearce

For British author and designer, see Shirley Conran.

Pearce in 2010

Dame Shirley Anne Pearce DBE (born February 1954) is a British academic and psychologist. She is Chair of Court and Council[1] at the London School of Economics and Political Science and a member of the Higher Education Quality Assurance Panel for the Ministry of Education (Singapore).

She is the former Vice-Chancellor of Loughborough University,[2] a position she held from January 2006, leaving at the end of the 2011–12 academic year.[3] She still holds an Emeritus Chair at Loughborough. Before becoming Loughborough University's 7th Vice-Chancellor, 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, responsible for health and the professional schools.

  1. ^ Council, London School of Economics. Retrieved 15 September 2017.
  2. ^ "University vice-chancellor honoured by appointment". Leicester Mercury. 3 April 2012. Retrieved 3 August 2012.
  3. ^ Professor Robert Allison appointed as Vice Chancellor of Loughborough University, lboro.ac.uk, 30 March 2012. Retrieved 8 December 2014.