Professor ALLAN LAVILLE
Associate Pro-Vice-Chancellor Diversity and Inclusion

As Associate Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Diversity and Inclusion, Professor Allán Laville is expected to play a leading role in supporting a culture of diverse representation of staff at all levels of the institution – identifying opportunities for the University to benefit from diversity and inclusion initiatives across a broad spectrum of activities. He also oversees the management of all submissions for recognition and/or accreditation for a range of diversity and inclusion indicators (e.g. Athena SWAN, Race Equality Charter Mark, Disability Confident Scheme).

Contact

Sinead O’Flynn
Executive Administration Officer

s.oflynn@reading.ac.uk 
+44 (0) 118 378 6846

Professor Allán Laville teaches Clinical Psychology at the School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences (SPCLS) and was the Co-Chair of the University’s LGBTQIA+ Staff Network before taking up his current role.

Allán has been with the University since April 2011, when he joined as a PWP Clinical Educator in the Charlie Waller Institute (CWI). By December 2013, he had progressed into the role of Senior PWP Clinical Educator working across CWI and SPCLS. He was appointed a Lecturer in Clinical Psychology in July 2019, promoted to Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology in August 2021, and in 2023, promoted to Professor of Equity in Psychology.

Allán is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society (BPS). He is Co-Chair of the Equity, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Committee and member of the Scientific Programme Advisory Group for the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies. He is also a member of the BPS Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategic Board. He is co-author of the NHS Talking Therapies LGBTQ+ Positive Practice Guide (2024), which involved working with NHS England and the LGBT Foundation.

In 2019, Allán won the Reading Students' Union Award for Diverse and Inclusive Teaching Excellence and in 2020, he was awarded a University Teaching Fellowship. Allán was a finalist in the BPS and Oxford University Press Higher Education Psychology Teacher of the Year 2020 and 2022 competitions. In 2023, Allán was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship by Advance HE. Most recently, he was awarded the Outstanding Contribution to Teaching and Learning Award for his leadership of the University of Reading Decolonising the Curriculum project.