Professor Vicki Bruce OBE

Head of College of Humanities and Social Science, University of Edinburgh
Email: Vicki.Bruce@ed.ac.uk
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After graduating with a BA (Natural Sciences) and PhD (Psychology) from Cambridge, Professor Bruce was appointed to a lectureship in 1978 at the University of Nottingham and was promoted Reader in 1988 and Professor in 1990. In 1992, she moved to her current post, and has been Deputy Principal at Stirling since 1995. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1996, Honorary Fellow of the British Psychological Society (BPS) in 1997, and Fellow of the British Academy in 1999. She was awarded the OBE for services to Psychology in 1997, and in that year was awarded the BPS Presidents' Award for distinguished contributions to psychology. In 2000 she was co-winner of the BPS Cognitive Psychology award with Mike Burton (Glasgow) and Peter Hancock (Stirling). In 2001, she was awarded the BPS Book award with Andy Young (York), for their 1998 book, published by Oxford University Press, In the eye of the beholder: The science of face perception, written to accompany a successful exhibition in Edinburgh at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery. Her research has been supported by some 30 grants totalling over £1.6 million from research councils and other bodies, and has resulted in five authored/ co-authored books (one in three editions), six edited/co-edited books, over 100 refereed journal articles and many chapters and other forms of dissemination. She has been active in research council and funding council duties, e.g. from 19921996 she was a member of the Economic and Social Research Council (Chair of Programmes Board) and from 1995-2001 a member of the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council (Chair of Research Policy Advisory Committee and Research Development Grant panel). She chaired the Psychology panel for the UK Research Assessment Exercise in 1996 and 2001. She is currently a Member of the UK Council for Science and Technology and serves on the Council of the British Academy. She was President of the British Psychological Society during its Centenary year.