Professor Vicki Bruce, OBE
Vice Principal and Head of College of Humanities and Social Science, University of Edinburgh.

Vicki Bruce is Vice-Principal and Head of the College of Humanities and Social Science at the University of Edinburgh and holds a personal chair in Psychology there. As Head of College she is in charge of an organisation with over 1300 staff and some 14,000 students, which covers all academic disciplines in the arts, humanities and social sciences including law, education and management. She is a psychologist who has researched and published extensively in the areas of visual perception and cognition, particularly focussing on human face recognition and face perception. She has been principal or co-applicant on grants totalling in excess of £2 million.