{{short description|Psychologist and academic}} {{For|the scientist|Susan Lea (scientist)}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Susan Lea | image = File:Susan Lea.jpg | image_size = 200px | caption = | office1 = 9th Vice-Chancellor University of Hull | term_start1 = 2017 | term_end1 = 2022 | office2 = | term_start2 = | term_end2 = | predecessor2 = Calie Pistorius | successor2 = David Petley | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | profession = | spouse = }} '''Professor Susan Lea''' is a chartered psychologist and academic, and was Vice-Chancellor at the University of Hull from 2017 to 2022.<ref>{{cite web|title=Professor Susan Lea appointed as the new Vice-Chancellor at the University of Hull.|url=http://www2.hull.ac.uk/news_and_events-1/news_archive/2017newsarchive/march/professor-susan-lea-new-vc.aspx|publisher=hull.ac.uk|accessdate=20 March 2017}}</ref> Previously she was Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) at the University of Greenwich.<ref>{{cite web|title=Professor Susan Lea appointed as Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) at the University of Greenwich.|url=http://www2.gre.ac.uk/about/news/articles/2015/new-deputy-vice-chancellor-academic-professor-susan-lea-to-join-university-of-greenwich|publisher=gre.ac.uk|accessdate=20 January 2016}}</ref>
==Education== Lea attended the University of Cape Town where she gained a Bachelor of Social Science in 1982, a Bachelor of Arts in 1984 and a Master of Arts in 1986. In 1995 she received her Doctor of Philosophy from Loughborough University on South African Racial Discourse: A Social Psychological Study.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/susan-lea(a834bc2c-ada9-4329-a3eb-16ef0920de93)/biography.html |title=Susan Lea - Biography - Research Portal, King's College, London |publisher=Kclpure.kcl.ac.uk |date= |accessdate=2014-03-26}}</ref>
==Career== Lea trained as a community psychologist at the University of Cape Town. While at Plymouth University she was Acting Dean of the Health Faculty, Associate Dean (Learning and Teaching) of the Health Faculty, and Director of the Centre for Excellence in Professional Placement Learning.
From November 2010, she was Dean of Education in the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience at King's College<ref>{{cite web|title=IoP welcomes new Vice-Dean of Education, Professor Susan Lea|url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/ioppn/news/records/2010/11November/IoPwelcomesnewVice-DeanofEducation,ProfessorSusanLea.aspx|publisher=kcl.ac.uk|accessdate=20 January 2016}}</ref> and also held roles as Interim Vice Principal of (Education) and Lead for Education across the Health Schools.
Lea joined the University of Greenwich in April 2015 as Deputy Vice-Chancellor with responsibility for academic strategy including all aspects of quality, standards and enhancement.<ref>{{cite web|title=Professor Susan Lea appointed as Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) at the University of Greenwich.|url=http://www2.gre.ac.uk/about/news/articles/2015/new-deputy-vice-chancellor-academic-professor-susan-lea-to-join-university-of-greenwich|publisher=gre.ac.uk|accessdate=20 January 2016}}</ref>
==Interests== Her research interests include social justice,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/a-phantom-menace-and-the-new-apartheid(fa1491b8-7a79-4a62-a10f-90d8ae9e12d0).html |title='A phantom menace and the new Apartheid' - Research Portal, King's College, London |publisher=kclpure.kcl.ac.uk |date= |accessdate=2014-03-26}}</ref> sexual and domestic violence,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/dialogic-reverberations-police-domestic-abuse-and-the-discontinuance-of-cases(500abaae-7d15-4b2a-ab4d-5c7293fc0a6a).html |title=Dialogic Reverberations: Police, Domestic Abuse, and the Discontinuance of Cases - Research Portal, King's College, London |publisher=kclpure.kcl.ac.uk |date= |accessdate=2014-03-26}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/jhamlin/3925/Readings/ConvictedRapist.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2013-11-12 |archive-date=2013-11-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131112141620/http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/jhamlin/3925/Readings/ConvictedRapist.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> the attrition of rape cases within the criminal justice system, rape survivors’ experiences of sexual assault referral centres, and mental health.<ref>{{cite web|title=Research interests: Psychology of Sexual & Domestic Violence, Mental Health & Social Justice, Supercomplexity of Higher Education|url=https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/susan-lea%28a834bc2c-ada9-4329-a3eb-16ef0920de93%29/biography.html|publisher=kcl.ac.uk|accessdate=20 January 2016}}</ref> This involves working with police,<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/civil-disputes-and-crime-recording-refusals-disinterest-and-power-in-police-witcraft(00fda251-a737-4157-8402-eef830459cd1).html |title=Civil Disputes and Crime Recording Refusals, Disinterest And Power In Police Witcraft - Research Portal, King's College, London |journal=The British Journal of Criminology |publisher=kclpure.kcl.ac.uk |date= |volume=52 |issue=2 |pages=361–380 |doi=10.1093/bjc/azr087 |accessdate=2014-03-26|last1=Lynn |first1=Nick |last2=Lea |first2=Susan J. |url-access=subscription }}</ref> NHS staff and academics.
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