Susan Lea

King's College portrait, 2013

Professor Susan Lea is a chartered psychologist and academic, and is Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) at the University of Greenwich.[1]

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.[2]

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[3] 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.[4]

Interests

Her research interests include social justice,[5] sexual and domestic violence,[6][7] the attrition of rape cases within the criminal justice system, rape survivors’ experiences of sexual assault referral centres, and mental health.[8] This involves working with police,[9] NHS staff and academics.

References

  1. ↑ "Professor Susan Lea appointed as Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) at the University of Greenwich.". gre.ac.uk. Retrieved 20 January 2016.
  2. ↑ "Susan Lea - Biography - Research Portal, King's College, London". Kclpure.kcl.ac.uk. Retrieved 2014-03-26.
  3. ↑ "IoP welcomes new Vice-Dean of Education, Professor Susan Lea". kcl.ac.uk. Retrieved 20 January 2016.
  4. ↑ "Professor Susan Lea appointed as Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) at the University of Greenwich.". gre.ac.uk. Retrieved 20 January 2016.
  5. ↑ "'A phantom menace and the new Apartheid' - Research Portal, King's College, London". kclpure.kcl.ac.uk. Retrieved 2014-03-26.
  6. ↑ "Dialogic Reverberations: Police, Domestic Abuse, and the Discontinuance of Cases - Research Portal, King's College, London". kclpure.kcl.ac.uk. Retrieved 2014-03-26.
  7. ↑ http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/jhamlin/3925/Readings/ConvictedRapist.pdf
  8. ↑ "Research interests: Psychology of Sexual & Domestic Violence, Mental Health & Social Justice, Supercomplexity of Higher Education". kcl.ac.uk. Retrieved 20 January 2016.
  9. ↑ "Civil Disputes and Crime Recording Refusals, Disinterest And Power In Police Witcraft - Research Portal, King's College, London". kclpure.kcl.ac.uk. Retrieved 2014-03-26.
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