Dame Shirley Anne Pearce DBE (born 1954) is a British academic and psychologist. She is Chair of Court and Council at the London School of Economics and Political Science and a member of the Higher Education Quality Assurance Panel for the Ministry of Education (Singapore).

She is the former Vice-Chancellor of Loughborough University, a position she held from January 2006, leaving at the end of the 2011-12 academic year. She still holds an Emeritus Chair at Loughborough. Before becoming Loughborough 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 2001-04, responsible for health and the professional schools.