Robert A. Pearce

Professor Robert Pearce is a British academic. He was the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Wales, Lampeter between 2003 and 2008.

Educated at Grammar Schools in Birmingham, Bristol and Gloucester Pearce went on to study law at Pembroke College, Oxford. He has since held academic positions at the Universities of Newcastle upon Tyne, Lancaster, University College Cork (part of the National University of Ireland), and at the University of Western Ontario.

He has been Professor in Law at the University of Buckingham between 1990 and 2003, where he was successively Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Acting Vice-Chancellor. On 1 October, 2003, he became the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Wales, Lampeter, in succession to Professor Keith Robbins. In this capacity, he was Welsh Supernumerary Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford for the academic year 2007/8 until he unexpectedly abandoned his position in Lampeter and moved to Francecite web |url=http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=403534 |title=University of Wales, Lampeter - Vice-chancellor retires |work=Times Higher Education |accessdate=2008-09-18] . From July 2008 his position has been held by Head of Finance Mr Gwyndaf Tobias, as acting Vice Chancellor.

He has also been an academic auditor for the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education and its predecessor, the Higher Education Quality Council, since 1993.