Senior Deputy VC Professor Georgina Randsley de Moura

Before taking up her role as Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Deputy CEO of LASE University Group, Professor Georgina Randsley de Moura served as Acting Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of Kent.

A proud Kent alumna, she graduated with a BSc (Hons) in Social Psychology in 1999 and a PhD in Social Psychology in 2004. She completed an Executive MBA with distinction in 2016.

Academic and career background

Professor Randsley de Moura became a substantive lecturer in 2007 and has held visiting posts at Royal Holloway and the Norwegian School of Management. She was promoted to Professor of Social and Organisational Psychology in 2017.

She was Head of Psychology from 2014 to 2018 and interim Dean of Social Sciences in 2019. She became Deputy Vice-Chancellor in October 2019 and joined the University Council in August 2020.

Research interests

Professor Randsley de Moura is a member of the Centre for the Study of Group Processes. Her research focuses on identity, leadership and innovation in groups and organisations. This includes how groups respond to leaders who do not meet their expectations, and how individuals, groups and organisations identify and respond to leadership potential.

Read her publications.