Glynis Breakwell

Dame Glynis Marie Breakwell, DBE, DL, FRSA, FAcSS (born 26 July 1952) is the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Bath in Bath, England. She is one of Europe's leading social psychologists and an active public policy adviser and researcher specialising in leadership, identity process and risk management. In January 2014 she was listed in the Science Council's list of '100 leading UK practising scientists'.

Dame Glynis has been a Fellow of the British Psychological Society since 1987 and an Honorary Fellow since 2006. She is a chartered health psychologist and in 2002 was elected an Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences.

Breakwell was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2012 New Year Honours for services to higher education. and is also a Deputy Lieutenant of the County of Somerset.

Education

• University of Leicester (BA)
• University of Strathclyde (MSc)
• University of Bristol (PhD)
• University of Oxford (MA, DSc)

Academic career

• 1976-78 Lecturer in social psychology, University of Bradford
• 1978-82 Prize Fellow in social psychology, Nuffield College, Oxford
• 1978 BPS Young Social Psychologist Award
• 1984 Associate Fellow
• 1987 Fellow
• 1993 Myers Award
• 1995-99 Member Social Psychology Section Committee (Chair 1997-99)
• 1978 MA (by special resolution) University of Oxford
• 2006 Honorary Fellow of the British Psychological Society
• 2014 Science Council list of 100 leading UK practising Scientists

University of Surrey

• 1981-87 Lecturer in social psychology
• 1987-88 Reader
• 1991-2001 Professor of Psychology
• 1990-95 Head of Department of Psychology
• 1994-95 Pro Vice-Chancellor (Staff Development and Continuing Education)
• 1995-2001 Head of School of Human Sciences

University of Bath

• 2001–present Vice-Chancellor, University of Bath

Shandong University, China

• Honorary Professor

Current appointments

• Director, Student Loans Company (SLC)
• Director, Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS)
• Director, Universities UK (UUK)
• Chair, UUK Funding and Management Policy Committee
• Member of the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), Leadership, Governance and Management Committee
• Council Member of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)
• Chair of ESRC Research Committee
• Board member of the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education (chair, Research Panel)
• Governor, Cheltenham Ladies College
• Director, Leadership Foundation for Higher Education

Publications

• Banks, Michael; Bates, Inge; Breakwell, Glynis; Bynner, John M.; Emler, Nicholas; Jamieson, Lynn; Roberts, Kenneth B. (1991). Careers and Identities. Open University Press. ISBN 978-0335097142.
• Breakwell, Glynis; Rowett, Colin (1982). Social Work: The Social Psychological Approach. Van Nostrand Reinhold. ISBN 0442305192.
• Breakwell, Glynis (1985). The Quiet Rebel. Century. ISBN 071260717X.
• Breakwell, Glynis (1986). Coping with Threatened Identities. Sydney: Law Book Co of Australasia. ISBN 0416371205.
• Breakwell, Glynis (1989). Facing Physical Violence. Routledge. ISBN 0901715956.
• Breakwell, Glynis (1990). Interviewing (Problems in Practice). BPS Blackwell. ISBN 978-1854330000.
• Breakwell, Glynis (1991). Social Psychology of Political and Economic Cognition. Academic Press Inc. ISBN 978-0121286804.
• Rowett, Colin; Breakwell, Glynis (1992). Managing Violence at Work. NFER-Nelson. ASIN B0018LSXWM.
• Breakwell, Glynis (1992). Social Psychology of Identity and the Self Concept. Academic Press Inc. ISBN 978-0121286859.
• Breakwell, Glynis; Canter, David (1993). Empirical Approaches to Social Representations. Clarendon Press. ISBN 978-0198521815.
• Breakwell, Glynis; Millard, L. (1995). Basic Evaluation Methods: Analysing Performance, Practice and Procedure. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-1854331618.
• Breakwell, Glynis; Smith, Jonathan A.; Wright, Daniel B. (2012). Research Methods in Psychology (4 ed.). SAGE Publications Ltd. ISBN 978-0857022646.
• Breakwell, Glynis; Lyons, Evanthia (1996). Changing European Identities: Social Psychological Analyses of Social Change. Garland Science. ISBN 978-0750630085.
• Breakwell, Glynis (1997). Coping with Aggressive Behaviour (Personal and Professional Development). John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-1854332059.
• Breakwell, Glynis (2003). Doing Social Psychology Research. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 978-1405108126.
• Breakwell, Glynis (2003). Doing Social Psychology Research. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 978-1405108126.
• Breakwell, Glynis (2014). The Psychology of Risk (2 ed.). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1107602700.
• Jaspal, Rusi; Breakwell, Glynis (2014). Identity Process Theory: Identity, Social Action and Social Change. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1107022706.

External links

• Glynis Marie Breakwell on Psychreg
• University of Bath profile: Professor Dame Glynis Breakwell
• Full list of publications by Breakwell (University of Bath website)
• Debrett's profile