Dame Shirley Anne Pearce, DBE is a British academic and psychologist. She is the former Vice-Chancellor of Loughborough University, a position she held from January 2006, leaving at the end of the 2011-2012 academic year. Before becoming the University's 7th Vice-Chancellor, Pearce was a Professor of Health Psychology at the University of East Anglia and Dean of the Institute of Health. She had also served as Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the University of East Anglia from 2001 to 2004.