10 Facts About Shirley Pearce

Dame Shirley Anne Pearce was born on February 1954 and is a British academic and psychologist.

Shirley Pearce is Chair of Court and Council at the London School of Economics and Political Science and a member of the Higher Education Quality Assurance Panel for the Ministry of Education.

Shirley Pearce had served as Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the University of East Anglia from 2001 to 2004, responsible for health and the professional schools.

Shirley Pearce then trained in Clinical Psychology and at the Institute of Psychiatry, University of London, now part of King's College London.

Shirley Pearce 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.

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Shirley Pearce's move to the University of East Anglia in 1994 was 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.

Shirley 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.

Shirley Pearce has held positions at the Department of Health, BIS and the Home Office.

Shirley Pearce was appointed as LSE's chair of court and council in November 2016 and took up the post in January 2017.

Shirley Pearce was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2005 Birthday Honours for services to the National Health Service and elevated to Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2014 New Year Honours for services to higher education.