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 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.

See also

• National Health Service
• University of East Anglia

External links

• Vice Chancellor's Office - Loughborough University
• LU Press Release